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@Polytheist-Witch
Nobody should be exempt from contributing to society. Everyone should pay their fair share, including the poor.
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That is basically the definition of bullying in one way, in another it is ironic as that is what transphobes to to trans people via pronouns.
You can dislike or disapprove of something without being afraid of it. Phobias should be reserved for actual fears.
Nobody calls women uglyphobes for not accepting a date.
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@CoolApe
I mean, taxation without representation has its counterpoint...representation without taxation.
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@CoolApe
I'd amend that to a net welfare recipient minus taxes paid.
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Just their bosses on behalf of CIA arm twisters.
The WH correspondents dinner is one of the most flagrant examples of the press being manipulated into going along to get along. Anyone who does not gets sent packing. Whether it is overt or covert, the end result is the same as with Russia's press.
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@Barney
Whataboutism is the standard for judging normal behavior.
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@Barney
I don't spend much time in the politics forum, has anyone made a good defense for that?
I'm pretty sure American journalists were discouraged from calling the Iraq war an American Invasion.
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@Jeff_Goldblum
There really hasn't been much rational discussion about what the people of Russia want. The only mantra repeated is that Putin is crazy.
Even if you were to believe that is the case, then NATO should have pre-emptively nuked Russia. Since NATO authorities have not done so, it is obvious that Putin isn't nearly as crazy as suggested and that there is a legitimate reason why Russia does not want a massive buildup of NATO forces along its borders.
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@thett3
but I can think of someone who is…
It's a done deal after the 2022 insurrection in Nov.
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Attempting to establish a Federal ministry of Propaganda was probably the most divisive action the administration did.
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@thett3
I wouldn't be surprised if it included price controls. This administration is committed to repeating every mistake of the Carter era while dealing with inflation.
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@ILikePie5
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That’s what happens when the economy is essentially shut down to the point where no one is traveling, completely tanking oil demand.
Guess Democrats better shut down the economy again if they don't want to lose their Oligarchy.
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@FLRW
On December 17, 2020, gas was also around 2 dollars a gallon. RIP Democrat Oligarchs.
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As a rapidly shrinking minority party, the GOP is objectively the more divisive.
Lol, only in clown world do more than 40% approve of the current blame game policies of the DNC.
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@thett3
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@zedvictor4
We are all born to be slaves to something.
True. The freed slaves in 1865 suffered without even a historical footnote as they were thrust into a world of accountability with few skills, education, or capital.
Many starved to death without a single mention.
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@Benjamin
People should own their own homes and not need to spend their money paying down another person's debt.
There is a world of difference between "people should own their own homes" and "people should have the OPTION of owning their own homes.
The vast majority of people who believe owning a house is somehow a fundamental right today have no skills in actually building a home.
The people who own property in America are constantly paying debt in the form of mortgages, maintenance, security, legal fees, depreciation, and property taxes.
Taxes which are also a form of paying another person's debts.
Some people choose to not have this responsibility and risk, and that is their right as an American. In your dystopia of housing rights, no American has that option to avoid conscription into this role.
Pol Pot once envisioned a world where food was a fundamental right, and forced every person to work in the fields producing food on pain of death. You can read a history book to see how that turned out.
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@coal
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a touching moment of clarity this week, personnel from the Department of Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board realized that the true disinformation they've been looking for was inside them all along.
"All of my life, I've been searching for disinformation, only to find out that everything I've been looking for was within me from the very beginning. So ironic!" said former Disinformation Czar Nina Jankowicz. "At last, my long journey has brought me full circle, right back to the source of disinformation that was under my nose this entire time. I was the one I was looking for!" Jankowicz then turned and wiped away a single tear.
Sources say the Disinformation Board is being shut down, having completed its 3-week mission to find the source of disinformation. The government will now return to censoring and silencing opposition in secret as they've always done.
According to eyewitnesses, Jankowicz and Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas turned out the last lights in the DGB building, turning around one final time to look on their work with fondness and reflect on how our strange journeys often take us right back to where we started. "Goodbye, old friend. You've taught me so much," said Mayorkas before turning and walking into the sunset.
According to sources, Jankowicz has been offered a full-time job fact-checking memes for Snopes.
"All of my life, I've been searching for disinformation, only to find out that everything I've been looking for was within me from the very beginning. So ironic!" said former Disinformation Czar Nina Jankowicz. "At last, my long journey has brought me full circle, right back to the source of disinformation that was under my nose this entire time. I was the one I was looking for!" Jankowicz then turned and wiped away a single tear.
Sources say the Disinformation Board is being shut down, having completed its 3-week mission to find the source of disinformation. The government will now return to censoring and silencing opposition in secret as they've always done.
According to eyewitnesses, Jankowicz and Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas turned out the last lights in the DGB building, turning around one final time to look on their work with fondness and reflect on how our strange journeys often take us right back to where we started. "Goodbye, old friend. You've taught me so much," said Mayorkas before turning and walking into the sunset.
According to sources, Jankowicz has been offered a full-time job fact-checking memes for Snopes.
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@3RU7AL
do you personally think the united states should emulate the chinese hybrid economy ?
It's the other way around though.
Singapore’s economic freedom score is 84.4, making its economy the freest in the 2022 Index. Singapore is ranked 1st among 39 countries in the Asia–Pacific region, and its overall score is above the regional and world averages.
Over the past five years, Singapore’s economy has grown slowly except in 2020, when it contracted. Economic freedom has been maintained at a very high level during that period, at or near the top of the Index. Singapore’s highly developed free-market economy owes its success in large measure to its remarkably open and corruption-free business environment, prudent monetary and fiscal policies, and a transparent legal framework. Trade freedom is strong, and well-secured property rights promote entrepreneurship and innovation effectively. The overall rule of law is undergirded by a high degree of transparency and government accountability.
"The basic institutions that protect the liberty of individuals to pursue their own economic interests result in greater prosperity for the larger society."
"Economic freedom is the fundamental right of every human to control his or her own labor and property. In an economically free society, individuals are free to work, produce, consume, and invest in any way they please. In economically free societies, governments allow labor, capital, and goods to move freely, and refrain from coercion or constraint of liberty beyond the extent necessary to protect and maintain liberty itself."
1) Higher economic freedom correlates strongly with higher self-reported happiness.
2) According to economists Tomi Ovaska and Ryo Takashima, economic freedom research suggests "that people unmistakably care about the degree to which the society where they live provides them opportunities and the freedom to undertake new projects, strongly with and make choices based on one's personal preferences."
3) Higher economic freedom promotes participation and collaboration.
4) Higher economic freedom is also extremely significant in preventing wars; according to their calculations, freedom is around 54 times more effective than democracy (as measured by Democracy Score) in diminishing violent conflict.
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@3RU7AL
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@3RU7AL
And there is no more heavily regulated market as the Chinese market.
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@3RU7AL
It depends. If they provide you with something useful, then you need them.
Billionaire producers most often exist in heavily regulated markets where you have to be exceptional in a world of regulated competition.
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@3RU7AL
Most people that make neat stuff have no clue how to distribute it.
World hunger is also a distribution problem. All hail the distributors.
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@3RU7AL
No, we don't. we destroy giants to get the Golden eggs.
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@3RU7AL
Musk invented more things than Nasa with less money and in a faster time frame.
NASA is an embarrassment of government incompetency.
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@3RU7AL
Imagine in the middle ages if the King taxed only his blacksmiths, then complained because he couldn't arm his knights.
Maybe even blamed Putin or the Plague.
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@Benjamin
but they are not in any way necessary or even beneficial to such a society.
So we would be better off without Iphones, cars, internet, next day shipping shopping, and thousands of other things because the people that produced them made too much in a given year. I disagree. Society desperately needs those people, but they do not need people that accumulate wealth without producing anything.
Production taxes are a tax on the progression of society.
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@CoolApe
A consumption tax would be more feasible in capturing assets from the wealthy without unfairly punishing income earners and producers who may not have much accumulated wealth.
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@FLRW
Do you think that Trump would be anything other than an Amazon driver if he wasn't born into a rich family?
Not likely, he would probably have been Joe Biden if his dad was a Used Auto Sales expert. Almost as rich with much less effort.
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@zedvictor4
The rich" are rich for a reason
This is an extremely lazy way to address this serious topic and the reason why people like the founder of BLM and Joe Biden will never be taxed while basketball players who work their entire lives to provide a high entertainment value are punished from the very first paycheck regardless of the fact that they started with nothing.
Let's discuss the difference between wealth and productivity, because there are plenty of rich people who produced NOTHING of value for society and are rewarded by not paying taxes for it under the current system.
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When progressives say they are taxing the rich, they are really not taxing the rich when looking at income tax. They are taxing production. A person could make a lot in a single year and yet, not have a lot of accumulated wealth or assets.
In order to truly tax the rich, all income taxes, including capital gains, would have to be abolished and replaced with wealth taxes.
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@Intelligence_06
it is just that when you finish building it, it is not yours. It is everyone's.
On pain of death.
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@ILikePie5
character trait of loyalty.
There was a time when you would make a candidate swear to uphold certain policies, and there were consequences for selling out to lobbyists.
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@Double_R
The only people a politician should feel a sense of loyalty towards it’s their constituents.
Constituents don't get them elected. Lobbyists do.
Biden shouldn’t because of Afghanistan…
Good lord if that was the only thing, he wouldn't today be excluded and shunned by his own party lol.
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@ILikePie5
You’re getting a little bit warmer, but still not there yet
I would have preferred Bernie destroying the economy with punitive taxes on producers over the mass printing of money under Biden.
One of these policies is very easy to correct.
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@Danielle
I don't think being unable to get a tattoo from a licensed tattooist where the punishment falls on the provider isn't exactly a free speech issue, but I get your point.
What's more fundamental is recognizing just how many constitutional rights ARE provided to minors with personhood being the prerequisite. The arguments about abortion inevitably rest on the idea that a fetus can have the prerequisite of personhood bestowed by the State at some term of the pregnancy. This is a 2 edged sword though, as that would mean all the current constitutional rights Minors enjoy would apply to an unborn fetus, opening up much more potential abuses of the government in an effort to protect those rights.
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@Danielle
I wonder if this was a condition of the defamation lawsuit?
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@Danielle
The same goes for minors.
What constitutional rights are not afforded to minors? Which rights?
Being born is a prerequisite to our constitutional rights.
Probs has something to do with Jurisdiction in that an American constitution applies to American citizens. Otherwise we would be sending the world police outside our borders to protect everyone's rights. (which we do sometimes whenever we feel like it)
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@Danielle
Definitely not. And if Republicans win the House, Senate and WH (which they probably will) there will likely be a national ban.
Maybe, It kind of sucks that it's an easier legislative process for the government to take stuff away from the people than it is to protect people from the government.
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@Danielle
The law righteously provides a constitutional right to abortion. It's very hard for me to imagine a scenario in which compelling someone to give birth against their will seems like a legitimate function of the state, and even harder to imagine why an unborn person should have any rights at all.
Do you think the Congress has 2/3 support today to add a Constitutional amendment that has the words "abortion" or "personal autonomy" in it?
How about 75% of the local state legislatures?
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@Stephen
Communism threatens death for owning snow.
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@ILikePie5
Wow Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, and Nikki Haley said that? Interesting...
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@Double_R
And all Biden did was to stop any discussion of alternative treatments that could have saved American lives. Nobody was allowed to discuss alternatives with their doctors simply because big pharma told Biden to censor everything. At least Florida skirted the ban luckily and saved some people against the odds.
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@3RU7AL
You can talk to him, just don't ask him to step outside the bubble.
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@3RU7AL
I was talking about your jaw dropping hypocrisy, I don’t know how the FBI came into this conversation.
Because the FBI is objectively hypocritical with the current uneven application of the law. Especially as it pertains to felons obstructing Justice.
Rules for thee and not for me is the bread and butter of every Establishment sycophant. Of course you would love the current state of the FBI.
You don't have to respond, I know that you agree.
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@ILikePie5
Bernie definitely does not take the same marching orders that Biden does from corporate lobbyists.
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