circuitfarmer

(If you are a USian) your conservative dad should probably know that corporate tax rates in the US were as high as 52% in the 1950s. Imagine the social programs that could be paid for which such things.

Most of the people who say they want to go back to the 1950s for political reasons don’t mean it. They just want to cherrypick certain things and claim everything used to be better. As with anything, there’s a lot of extra details, but I’d be willing to bet that a lot of these folks want the casual racism but not the taxes.

I started using double dashes – like these right here – because then it feels more like an intentional pause with some neat stylistic touch.

Mostly, I just write like I talk.

Nearly always suspend. It just works for me and I’ve never had issues (Arch and Pop). I rarely, rarely have power outages so the end result is the same.

Did he even say thank you?

Hunter’s Laptop people speaking up in 3…2…1… wait where are they???

Yes. And it’s just hypocrisy all the way down: otherwise, as you say, we wouldn’t hear anything negative about the left exercising right to protest.

On top of r/conservative is a post about “the algorithm” flooding someone’s feed with news about US protests. Of course, the response wasn’t “hey great! Look at all those people exercising their right to free speech!”. Instead, it’s just bitching and claims of fake news (and no understanding that there really may be significant protests right now – just automatically, they must be false). There is no logic for people who can no longer discern facts from opinions.

“Fund managers publicly announce that they are incredibly slow on the uptake and yet still control all the money”

It never left. Using it still makes you look like an asshole.

All these “free speech absolutists” still don’t realize that free speech does not mean immunity from consequences of that speech from your fellow citizens. It’s almost like they just haven’t paid attention for their entire lives.

They’ll do anything except regulate the folks hoarding all the property for passive income.

They nominees are the ones who win the primaries, regardless of who the DNC wants the nominees to be.

Unless one of them is a self-professed Democratic Socialist…

Abraham had sex with his (wife’s) slave Hagar to produce Ishmael – and both Hagar and Ishmael were then exiled after Abraham was able to conceive with his wife and produce Isaac.

Certainly not the kind of values I’d want for my family.

When the rich people are now questioning the other rich people, you know shit isn’t exactly going to plan.

At least not the plan some of the rich thought they were getting. They forgot to factor in the incompetence.

Yes. You know when you see headlines like “internet service shut off in X country amid Y event”? It’s like that.

All of this is fleeting. If the govt decides to deny you access to anything online, they can and will. The only ones left communicating will be on radios. Backups of individual sites are great and all, and necessary, but they mean next to nothing on a grand scale if a government makes such decisions.

At this point in the timeline it is an eventuality everyone should be aware of.

Of course, there are economic reasons why internet access en masse probably won’t get shut off at the tap(s). But it may end up being the case that true, free communication, as we think of it currently, is impossible due to restrictions on speech through automoderation, or just good old coercion through fear.

The entire purpose of this project is to shift more wealth to those already wealthy. Even if DOGE has saved real money (already debatable since they’re shady af), the American people will see none of it. It will go towards making additional tax cuts for the rich look better on paper.

Call me when they remove the corporate interests and the DNC listens to Dem voters about nominees.

Well, it was a good run. Clearly I need to become a religious charity.

You have to go pretty far into the Bible to even get to the first non-incestuous relationship.

When will people stop supporting this clown?

Remember when some people were like “well, I don’t support him, but I’ve had this Twitter account forever, so I’m not leaving.” This is what happens. Things just get worse until you gain plausible deniability for continuing to support the bullshit.

Shocked, I tell you.

The whole damn system exists to place the burden of a living wage on the customer while the company paying peanuts can claim no wrongdoing. And the really sad part is: it has worked.

Edit: and there are many, many businesses that wouldn’t be in business if they actually had to pay competitive wages on their own. The invisible hand can fix nothing if tipping culture says to throw more and more arbitrary amounts of money at people to subsidize their wages yourself. At some point (I’d argue we’re past it already), the band-aid needs to get ripped off. Only then will we see self-correction. The almost immediate loss of many businesses will likely trigger other actions. It’s already a no-win scenario.