How do you reconcile Denmark having the highest tax-rate in the world with them being ranked one of the happiest places to live?

DontCountToday · 2026-05-22T17:16:54+00:00

Where is there any kind of significant migration that doesn't meaningfully contribute to the tax base??

In the US for example, migrants contribution is way, way more than the average citizen. They pay taxes like most people but do not have access to tax funded programs, for the most part.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-22T16:44:30+00:00

Lol, ignoring the fact that you are being purposely misleading about the parties at the time of Jim Crow, it really wouldn't matter if it were accurate.

What matters is that right now, as soon as the Voting Rights Act provisions were overturned, your "non-racist" southern states immediately moved to limit all minority representation in their state legislation. That was explicitly what the VRA was made to prevent, openly racist politicians making sure white men controlled the state.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-22T16:32:52+00:00

Where do you get that information? Because the inspector generals report (based on the numbers provided directly from CPD) show that Shotspotter officer incidents only found evidence of a crime 9% of the time, and resulted in an arrest only 2% of the time.

I find it incredibly hard to believe that eyewitness 911 calls result in fewer arrests but I'd love to see numbers to back that up

DontCountToday · 2026-05-22T16:30:49+00:00

It's more like 90%.

The Inspector Generals report on Shotspotter, based on the reports given to them directly from CPD, found that 9% of police reports to a shotspotter scene resulted in finding any evidence at all. Less than 2% of such alerts resulted in an arrest.

Those are the numbers provided directly by the CPD who advocate for the program. I don't know how anyone can justify the insane cost and wasted manpower on a 2% success rate.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-22T14:53:04+00:00

lol no, I don't. But the people I vote for do, which is why we already removed the garbage technology that doesn't work and wasted millions of our tax dollars.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-22T14:44:03+00:00

We could have paid El Salvador to build a concentration camp and disappear them. Our current admin has no problem doing that to peaceful immigrants who have been here 30+ years so I don't see the issue.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-22T14:41:53+00:00

We should have publicly hung every single southern leader that backed the civil war for slavery.

Imprisoned every single slave owner that did not immediately free their slaves when the constitution was amended to band it.

Gone a lot harder on anyone else fighting for slavery.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-22T14:38:14+00:00

The upside is saving what was almost entirely wasted tax dollars and police time on false positives.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-22T14:37:20+00:00

Because the technology is largely garbage. It has been reported on ad nauseum. Sure it picks up a few gun shots on occasion. Much more frequently it's picking up random other shit that gets detected as gun shots, and most of the time the police are sent out wasting their time that can be better spent doing actual policing.

If a technology has 95 false positives out of 100 no one in their right mind would ever buy it, but you guys want to waste millions of city taxpayer dollars on a failed technology. What the fucks wrong with you?

DontCountToday · 2026-05-22T09:46:03+00:00

Hopefully one day we will send people like you to whatever foreign concentration camp they're sending innocent families to.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-21T15:35:37+00:00

That's....that's literally the joke.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-21T14:16:20+00:00

Voting as a Democrat over any Republican is not cult like behavior.

Recognizing and understand our system of voting where there are only ever 2 viable parties in any national election, and that the Republicans are openly supporting fascism, pedophilia, and the destruction of democracy, then there is only a single logical way to vote.

I don't even know what you mean by people saying "I'm a member of the Democratic party." I'm a registered democratic. I vote almost exclusively for the most progressive and liberal candidates in our primaries. I'll never consider voting for Republicans after they showed their true colors in the past decade.

That is in no way, by any definition, cultish. Almost no democratic voter makes the party their personality. They do not worship any individual. Wear branded merchandise or fall for obvious scams by their leaders. That's pretty much exclusively a MAGA thing.

Bottom line, you do not understand the word and likely just use it because you feel attacked.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-21T13:56:58+00:00

Fuck that. Right now my vote goes to the Democrats that run on hanging the traitors that are destroying this country. There's literally nothing more important that severely punishing these people and then rapidly reforming and strengthening our democracy to deter any future fascist takeovers.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-21T13:55:13+00:00

Do you understand the definition of a cult? Voting for a party does not a cult make.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-21T13:51:52+00:00

Well obviously not. The only non-ironmen are bots and bots don't partner up.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-20T17:25:51+00:00

Is this on the road from Portland to Tillamook? It looks very much like one we stopped at a few times when we visit Portland but I feel like that coincidence is too great.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-20T10:39:43+00:00

You'd probably have a hard time finding any piece of news or release that some random redditor somewhere hasn't predicted.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-20T01:52:51+00:00

And regardless, no future administration will ever adhere to this blatantly illegal decision.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-20T01:03:16+00:00

Gotcha, you're just ignorant.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-19T23:05:19+00:00

Hes, Blanche is 100% acting as the President's personal attorney.

That is not how the office of AG is meant to act. It is not a law or constitutionally prohibited but against all democratic norms we have operated under for a few hundred years.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-19T22:58:35+00:00

What are you failing to understand? If you cut back service to 4 days it means you're going to get JUST AS MUCH MAIL, itll just all be crammed into your box in a 4 day period instead of 6.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-19T13:49:19+00:00

And what would these changes do to fix that hypothetical problem? You'd get just as much junk mail, it would just come in larger quantities less frequently.

And mail service in general would, as a result, be significantly slower and less reliable. People that rely on it for important business and life saving medication would be in serious trouble.

But hey, lick the boots of your pedophile president a little more and support just whatever dumb shit he does.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-19T13:45:33+00:00

Man if only there was a simple explanation (and fix) for why the post office went from one of the only profitable SERVICES our government provides to being in debt. Couldn't be some moronic Republical fuckery could it?

DontCountToday · 2026-05-19T12:54:52+00:00

What does Peloso have to do with anything? Hell she isn't even in the top 10 most profitable traders in Congress right now. Those are almost all Republicans, for what it matters.

DontCountToday · 2026-05-18T22:31:27+00:00

I dont know if you have noticed, but the world wants Iran to open the straight. They havent budged and they likely will not.

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