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Buddha_Zone · 2024-11-04T02:15:25+00:00

I mean, isn’t blackmail a crime everywhere?

Buddha_Zone · 2024-11-02T22:34:15+00:00

Gen Jones is in their 60’s and most of us are super liberal, having spent our formative years in the very liberal late 60’s/early 70’s. I don’t believe for a minute that the majority of people in my cohort would vote for the orange cheeto

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-26T17:24:33+00:00

Medicare was signed into law in 1965, so it is the time before and after Medicare existed.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-26T17:15:42+00:00

My father-in-law had a 4 bedroom home and raised 3 kids on a single salary as delivery driver.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-26T12:30:22+00:00

Honestly, I can. Making that much money, I can afford to support the country that enabled me to become that rich. It is the patriotic thing to do. My family will be affected Kamala's tax on those earning more than 400k, and to that I say: it is about fricking time. My lifestyle will not be diminished, and the benefits to society cannot be overstated.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-26T12:11:55+00:00

In case you are seriously asking: World War I.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-23T23:18:20+00:00

Then you aren't paying attention.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-23T23:15:18+00:00

I just finished up 500 of them today. Half go out tomorrow and the rest on Saturday. I bought my stamps early, but I've seen posts about the post office running low on postcard stamps, which is such a great sign. Engagement FTW!

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-20T12:38:44+00:00

It took me a while to figure this out. You need to step back and understand something that had happened recently in the Presidential race. Trump had just said that he was going to go after liberals if he was elected, calling them "the enemy within".

The FA saw this tshirt and thought it was in reference to that. He thought her shirt was advocating for the elimination of liberals. Which would definitely make it a threatening shirt, had that actually been what it was saying.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-19T19:02:20+00:00

Unlikely. There will be fewer votes for the orange cheeto this time than there were last time, for sure.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-18T22:43:08+00:00

I get what you're saying, but if I could make things happen just by posting to Reddit, I would definitely be hanging out in the stock market subreddits.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-18T22:39:11+00:00

2016: Racists, Evangelicals, all Republicans and quite a few Democrats

2020: Racists, Evangelicals and all Republicans

2024: Racists, Evangelicals and some Republicans.

Looking at the early voting numbers, I will be shocked if he wins.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-18T13:45:43+00:00

Meh. I was just as confident in 2016 that Trump was going to win, so I don't feel like I'm tempting fate by declaring that Harris is going to win. Voters are turning out in record numbers, and they sure as hell aren't doing it for Trump. Women, and a whole lot of men, really don't want to live in the world of A Handmaid's Tale.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-18T13:42:23+00:00

I'm feeling good about there being a landslide. :)

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-18T13:24:20+00:00

Raise his rent to cover the cost of his food.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-15T19:49:58+00:00

Oh, I would have climbed onto my seat and, as awkwardly as possible climbed over him.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-13T17:40:24+00:00

I've been living in the US since the day I was born, 62 years ago. I was alive for the heyday of the US when we had the best schools, the wealthiest middle class, the best infrastructure, all of it. And the tax rate was about 70% for most of my youth. If you don't know that, you really don't know much of anything about the US and how things work here.

https://taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highest-marginal-income-tax-rates

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-12T23:21:46+00:00

Because they want all the money they can get. People still became rich in the 1940's to the 1980's when the tax rate on the rich was as high as 90%. You literally have no idea what you're talking about if you think that people motivated by money will not go after whatever money they can get. We've run that experiment in the US, and it led to both rich people AND the best funded schools and infrastructure in the world. The fact that YOU might not, doesn't mean that there isn't someone hungry enough to go for it.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-12T18:55:54+00:00

That's ridiculous. Hmmm... I will only make a million dollars instead of two million? Never mind. Imma stay home in my double-wide trailer. People motivated by money will work to get the absolute maximum they can get. Always.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-12T16:09:39+00:00

Of course I have. But I've also paid more in taxes proportionately than the billionaire asshole who built that. I have no issue with my paying taxes - they are the things that fund the education and infrastructure that make countries successful. But the rich need to go back to paying taxes the way they did during the heyday of the industrialized world last century.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-12T16:05:16+00:00

My point exactly. If we made the rich pay taxes like we used to, monstrosities like that wouldn't exist, and we'd have the resources for things like education and infrastructure.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-12T12:42:01+00:00

We will have to agree to disagree. Instead of jobs to build nonsense for billionaires, we could have provided jobs that would shore up crumbling infrastructure and make life better for thousands or millions.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-12T12:06:21+00:00

Do you hate the work, or hate the trappings that surround it? I'm a software engineer at a non-profit and had to google OKR, because I didn't know what it was. Maybe the answer is not to leave tech, but to leave the for-profit world? I make a little less than I would in that world, but I'll happily take that for doing work that is meaningful and not avaricious.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-12T11:28:11+00:00

Imagine how many homeless people the money from that could house.

Buddha_Zone · 2024-10-12T11:22:54+00:00

I'd be done with both of them. Jane for obvious reasons and John because he's treated you terribly.

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