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- Comment on So is it "It just works" or "Shit just works"? 15 hours ago:
“it just works”
The “Sh” is silent…
- Comment on The South in a Nutshell 3 days ago:
- Comment on Is there anything Lemmy has more/better content for than Reddit and other mainstream sites? 1 week ago:
More peace of mind.
When I log into Lemmy and see a bunch of messages in my inbox I don’t have a moment of panic wondering if the replies are gonna be because the hive mind found my comment/post to be the best or the worst.
Replies here are reasonable if not too earnest…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sounds like something four CEOs would say
- Comment on I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime 1 week ago:
Heard of this guy, of course, but never seen him speak before.
He has the charisma of a used condom. I gave up after just over 2 minutes.
And only realized I was supposed to be looking at the comments after I started typing this reply 😅😂
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- Comment on I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime 2 weeks ago:
Link?
- Comment on Hey Libtards, if you want my guns you'll have to take it from my cold dead hands 2 weeks ago:
Can we please put a paws on all these political shitposts?
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 2 weeks ago:
I thought it was because /u/spez is a piece of shit?
- Comment on Uno what really happened 2 weeks ago:
But only as much as they can survive.
- Comment on Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about people making such big deal out of whether they're "black" or "white"? 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter what my skin looks like
…to you. Other people in this world absolutely will judge based on the color of your skin.
it changes nothing about me as a person
It’s extremely naive to believe living your life being judged by others based on your appearance wouldn’t change you.
- Comment on Cooking advice 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, Obama…
- Comment on Will sucking on Ice Breakers be healthier for me? 3 weeks ago:
I’m fairly certain it’s the artificial sweetener(s) (Sorbitol and maltitol) that cause some folks tummy troubles.
It all comes down to if it bothers your tummy and if so what your limit is.
Personally I can down a whole tin in 4 hours with no issue.
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Lots of people have bad ideas.
Few people can ralley the masses around them.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Dangerous how? Vance has the charisma of a limp sofa cushion.
Of course I feel the same or worse about Don John, so I guess I’m not a good measure.
- Comment on Jesus Christ 4 weeks ago:
Take some responsibility for your actions.
JFC
Were we created in your image or not?
- Comment on Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest 5 weeks ago:
Acetaminophen and paracetamol are the same thing.
- Comment on Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest 5 weeks ago:
Is acetaminophen really considered to be stronger than ibuprofen? I’d always considered them to be equal with ibuprofen being safer.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I finally caught another of the YouTube ads and it was paid for by futureforwardusa.org.
The message, again, was very generic with friendly animation and cheery music. The message was the same. “Your vote is private; whether you vote is public” with the addition of “make a plan to vote”.
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 1 month ago:
Let’s say “marginalized groups”…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve mostly seen YouTube ads so not sure how to share those here. I happened to get another postcard today though, with the exact same wording is the one I linked to elsewhere in this thread:
If you look at votingmatters.org it says:
Paid for by the Democratic National Committee (202) 863-8000
This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is the first clearly partisan one I’ve seen.
Mostly I’ve seen them as videos that plainly state. “Who you vote for is secret. Whether you vote is public record”. I did get one handwritten postcard saying the same.
I found them mostly “interesting” as a concept, but others have felt they’re threatening:
The first one I saw I looked up the “Paid for by…” entity and it was a Kamala PAC so I just kinda assumed they all were before seeing this.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Both parties are running these style ads in my area.
This is BY FAR the creepiest iteration I’ve seen.
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- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 1 month ago:
Yeah. I tried and failed to head it off at the pass. There are some good comments in here though.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 1 month ago:
I think the logical thing is to have those who most benefit from the infrastructure our taxes pay for
The poor benefit from roads, schools, firefighters, Medical/Medicaid, and utilities as much as anyone. But I think you had the super wealthy in mind. “Those who benefit from infrastructure” is an odd way to pinpoint the super wealthy.
Those who “most benefit” would be those who have been able to leverage the infrastructure and security provided to profit wildly. Not those who are just scraping by.
I think we do agree on all but degree like you said. And maybe mean/median income is too high. I was just trying to come up with a somewhat natural but objective breaking point. I think a more reasonable but also more subjective one might be the “living wage” which will certainly be much lower than mean/median but also much higher than $13k.
P.S. Tangentially related, I found this living wage calculator which put my current LCOL residence at ~$42k and my previous HCOL residence at ~$57k. Turned out to be much closer to Mean/median than I expected.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 1 month ago:
The standard deduction should be at least the median income…? Wouldn’t that mean that half of people would pay no income tax?
Half or more depending on mean or median. But that’s just a starting point for the discussion.
You might say this is what we should do, but I think it’s unreasonable to say that it’s a total head scratcher why we don’t already.
That’s not what I was intending to ask. Sorry if I phrased it poorly. I’m trying to understand the arguments against it because it’s what makes sense to me.
I just fail to see how this is placing the burden on the poor. It Is structured to do the exact opposite and give them the most breaks.
I think the logical thing is to have those who most benefit from the infrastructure our taxes pay for be the ones who contribute the most. And those that are seeing the least benefit be exempt.
I’d probably agree that the floor on the deduction should come up, and we should raise taxes on extreme wealth to make it up. But at least in its most essential form, income tax is already progressive.
This is almost exactly what I suggested. I think we’re basically on the same page.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 1 month ago:
The argument is that if you take some money from a lot of people, you get more money than if you take a lot of money from some people.
That’s all dependent on how much you’re taking and from who which I addressed in my comment.
There’s also the argument that if everyone pitches in, the overall burden for each individual is less.
This only makes sense if you define “burden” with a fixed dollar amount. A $6k tax “burden” is going to be a much harder burden on someone who makes $40k than someone who makes $250k
What this fails to address is that the richer you are, the more you can play with your money and end up with nothing to tax.
This could be addressed by the wealth tax I mentioned.
In the end, I do believe it’s politics and the wealthy manipulating people’s perception.
They’ve got us focused on this bullshit culture war when what we need is a good old-fashioned class war.
