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Even ancaps wouldn’t burn it.

😒

And yet, the anti-protester framing is relentless, even from otherwise balanced sources.

It’s not just anti-protestor framing. It’s nearly everything of importance.

More than one thing can be true at once.

We’ve failed ourselves by having elected Congresspersons where things like this can even be a concern.

Thanks for this. So much noise in the news, but this is what the US citizens need rn

It didn’t matter for George Santos, Candace Owens etc. They weren’t were grifters though, and with hazing and other bullying in the military, lying for a long time would certainly be strategic.

°a pox on ever degrading autocorrect

Soldiers were seen purchasing clothing and tchotchkes, including “Make America Great Again” chain necklaces to faux credit cards labeled “White Privilege Card: Trumps Everything.”

Is this screening being carried out for those deployed against US citizens on home soil?

“What I think is so remarkable about Bragg is that it’s really a breakdown on the military side,” Risa Brooks, an expert of civil-military relations at Marquette University, told Military.com. “It shows it’s possible – that the military’s professional ethics could fail,” she said.

I said as much elsewhere on Lemmy, yesterday. I can only hope a few good, strategic ethical liars passed those screens.

Wait, what? How is a liar ethical?

Anyone not plain vanilla and falling in line, apparently. Unless you’re fabulously wealthy or otherwise “useful.”

Big donors require it or they stop donating. Yes it stinks like day old fish left in the sun.

Koch Family Foundation

I think more human lives will be lost than wild lives, but I can be wrong.

When everything is illegal, nothing is illegal.

Doesn’t mean people won’t suffer, but when people have nothing to lose and everything to gain and will suffer regardless, then what?

It’s not just Republicans, and it’s doing the public a great disservice to keep pushing that narrative.

Thanks for that. I need to reread it a couple of times and stew on it for a good while. Being from the USA, my perspective is obviously skewed from that perspective. My immediate question arises from generations behind baby boomers who never had the opportunity of home ownership (and related maintenance/tax expenses), who may be able to inherit properties, if not having to be signed over to the state for necessary elder care expenses. In this situation, the beneficiary have wealth, but have to sell the property to pay taxes, then be taxed on savings, and still unable to afford modest housing, rented or bought.

In this example, my immediate thought is in favor of doing away with sales and/or VAT, but having aggressively progressive income taxes, with income under $x being exempted, or even negative tax burden*.

*Kitten bumped device before sentence completed.

Get Out!

Sure, and that’s extremely important context that should be included, because

taxes are a way - and always have been - to redistribute from the poor to the rich. Sounds about right.

Comes off sounding ancap or USA style libertarian.

Exactly.

Two years after approving a tough-on-crime legalized chattel slavery sentencing law

Fixed that for the AP