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So the thing about this is that, even if the things wealthy people can deduct means that they rarely pay the 90% marginal tax in practice, the fact that the government is using the tax code to coerce them into doing certain things instead of hoarding their money is still massively beneficial. The current regime abdicates a tremendous degree of the government’s ability to tell the rich what to do with their money, and that is a major contributor to our society’s seeming paralysis with respect to doing things.

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I’ll accept this as a compromise between reality and my actual position, 100% expropriation of wealth for every kkkrakkker.

600,000 people die of malaria every year

Yeah but what countries are they from. The ones with money do not care about them.

edit: actually now that I think about it they probably wouldn’t care if they were Americans either considering how we handled covid.

Westerners practically froth at the mouth to talk about the mistakes made under Mao, but even with those mistakes the end result of his term was that the Chinese population’s lifespan doubled. Not a lot of world leaders can claim anything like that level of success.

I suggest a counter-scam. “I’m interested in your offer but first I need to see a credit report from this specific website…”

Operation Al-Aqsa Flood came after fifteen years of Gaza being besieged by the IDF. Yes civilians died in it and that’s tragic, but Hamas did not create the conditions under which the operation occurred, Israel did. Hamas does not have the power and the international backing to end this conflict, Israel does. Hamas has not spent seven and a half decades ethnically cleansing Israelis - Israel has spent that time ethnically cleansing Palestinians.

Anything short of support for Hamas is support for genocide.

This but unironically. Full support for Hamas in every military operation against the genocidal state of Israel.

Yeah the election isn’t the finish line by a long shot. If France wants to defeat the far right then the incoming government condition needs to deliver for working people - paralysis or more neoliberalism will only set the far right up to win the next election.

While it’s great that this election seems to have worked out for French progressives, I think the trend where the French far right does better every election than it did in the last one needs to be addressed by the incoming government, and that their success at doing that will be the true marker of their success overall. If the left-center government is paralyzed and can’t deliver for working French people, then more and more of them will go to the far right, and all this election will have done is kick the fascism can down the road.

Same thing goes for England. It’s great what happened, but the real test is to come.

The modern problem with replication is mostly a problem of incentives. Science journalism and grant money all want big breakthroughs and original ideas, which doesn’t leave much room for confirming or denying previous research.

I agree. My whole childhood people would say things like “get good grades or you’ll be (insert blue collar job here)” - and now that I’m an adult I wish I had a union job that couldn’t be outsourced.

if there is no monetary benefit to going

For decades we’ve all been told that college will pay for itself. It’s gonna take a long time for society to unlearn that.

they were trying to install their choice rather than have an open selection process

I mean, that’s what happened with Biden, so it’s kind of a lateral move.

tribalism

Shitty term, try “sectarianism” instead. Also your analysis is incredibly idealistic and shallow.

fascism is secretly coded into capitalism

It isn’t exactly a secret, comrade. It’s just that the term “fascist” is still out of style, so they call themselves “conservatives” instead.

A Leninist would tell you that the “state” is defined by class suppression, so in a truly classless society the “state” ceases to exist and becomes simply the bureaucracy by which the production of society is organized an allocated.

An Anarchist would tell you that communism doesn’t require a centrally planned economy at all, and that small groups that own and control their own means of production are capable of spontaneously organizing at a mass scale and distributing their production without a central authority.

Ah, so the difference is the weight that people assign the idea.

Do the gods exist for an atheist who contends that all of the things you called “mythical” are in fact purely “fictional”? Or does a lack of belief among some individuals not matter because the gods are a social construct?

me: aww yea I’m gonna get some hotel waffles this morning

hotel: sir it is 9:01 we are closed.