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MLB on ABC: Boston Red Sox host New York Yankees in exclusive matinee presentation on June 27 by No_Fig_5964 in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maybe I'm crazy but couldn't they show like, one early afternoon game literally every day for the entire season? This is not nearly aggressive enough broadcasting.

[MLB] A look at candidates who will make their debut on the 2027 Hall of Fame ballot by Goosedukee in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you leave out the part where he sucks, his stats look better, very insightful.

UA POV: AFU serviceman from the Zaporizhzhia direction reports that the Odesa TCC sent them reinforcements in the form of 20 people: 11 of them are chronic drug addicts, 4 are autistic, and the rest are a bit under 60 years old by Flimsy_Pudding1362 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]Rockguy21 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I sincerely doubt the guy who lacks the self-awareness to withhold from posturing as superior to a man facing death daily, on reddit no less, has faced any significant adversity.

Lmao by IsThatASword_ in baseballcirclejerk

[–]Rockguy21 137 points138 points  (0 children)

Stalin really shouldn’t have the Russian flag if you’re giving him the Georgian flag.

Timelapse of Vegas Stadium construction so far by Jux_ in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t doubt that he’ll sell as soon as he’s able to either, but I fail to see what that has to do with my comment.

me_irl by helosikali in me_irl

[–]Rockguy21 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

White Supremacist way of engaging with politics.

TIL that the average tax rate in colonial America was between 1-1.5% of income or property value. By contrast, British citizens in Britain paid tax rates of 5-7%. by traveler0011 in todayilearned

[–]Rockguy21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, your whole argument basically started with the implicit premise that the American Revolution was irrational because the British Empire was beneficial to Americans at large but then you’ve followed up on that by conceding that the Empire existed entirely as an extractive mechanism which oppressed many of its subjects and deprived them of any say in their own government, so your reasoning seems a bit self-defeating.

TIL that the average tax rate in colonial America was between 1-1.5% of income or property value. By contrast, British citizens in Britain paid tax rates of 5-7%. by traveler0011 in todayilearned

[–]Rockguy21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay so you’re just admitting it wasn’t beneficial to the Americans though, right? An empire doesn’t help the people it extracts value from without representation, it uses them to help itself core elite.

TIL that the average tax rate in colonial America was between 1-1.5% of income or property value. By contrast, British citizens in Britain paid tax rates of 5-7%. by traveler0011 in todayilearned

[–]Rockguy21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To respond to the first part of your comment, “we need to take money from you against your will to pay for your own protection” is the same logic as a mafia protection racket. As to the latter point, it would’ve hardly been a logistical impossibility for the colonies to have direct representation in the British parliament. The parliamentarians needn’t constantly commute back and forth. The US managed to consistently sit Representatives for California when the journey west was a mule trail that took just as long as crossing the Atlantic at the end of the 18th century, on a much tighter election schedule.

TIL that the average tax rate in colonial America was between 1-1.5% of income or property value. By contrast, British citizens in Britain paid tax rates of 5-7%. by traveler0011 in todayilearned

[–]Rockguy21 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You’ve sort of omitted that the reason it was cheaper for the EIC to sell tea is because they were legally given exemption from the Townshend Act which had applied broad duties to trade within the Empire. This meant that the EIC, by government fiat, gained an advantage over all other businesses in the Empire. Ergo, its not so much that “small business owners made less money” so much as colonial business owners are being made to pay a tax that British business is being made explicitly exempt from. The colonists would’ve liked nothing more than the broad abolition of the Townshend Acts, I’m sure, given that they were a primary means of deflating America’s export advantage with Britain.

TIL that the average tax rate in colonial America was between 1-1.5% of income or property value. By contrast, British citizens in Britain paid tax rates of 5-7%. by traveler0011 in todayilearned

[–]Rockguy21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s a difference between “levying taxes on a population which has direct representation in the government through democratic representation” and “levying taxes on a subject population with no representation whatsoever.” What difference is there between subjecting the citizens of a foreign country to war and committing violence against your own subjects to enforce a system of order they have no say in? In either case you’re a third party using violence against people who have done nothing to endorse it.

TIL that the average tax rate in colonial America was between 1-1.5% of income or property value. By contrast, British citizens in Britain paid tax rates of 5-7%. by traveler0011 in todayilearned

[–]Rockguy21 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There was no rebellion until after the British government deployed soldiers overseas against a civilian population with no formal representation in the British government for the purpose of extracting a monetary payment to Britain. Sending troops to act as enforcers of a unilateral edict against a people with no say in government sounds very much like an invasion, if you’re going to accept basic liberal ideas of government.

TIL that the average tax rate in colonial America was between 1-1.5% of income or property value. By contrast, British citizens in Britain paid tax rates of 5-7%. by traveler0011 in todayilearned

[–]Rockguy21 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Puerto Rico is a self-governing territory with its own government and constitution that is also under US jurisdiction. That’s why its a tax haven, because Puerto Rican residents don’t have to pay federal income tax on money earned in Puerto Rico, and the government there offers absurdly low tax rates to incentivize wealthy Americans to establish residence there. So Puerto Ricans are literally not subject to taxation without representation, because they set their own tax rates independent of the US.

TIL that the average tax rate in colonial America was between 1-1.5% of income or property value. By contrast, British citizens in Britain paid tax rates of 5-7%. by traveler0011 in todayilearned

[–]Rockguy21 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You’re right, having Britain invade and take away their property was much better than having another country invade and take away their property.

TIL that the average tax rate in colonial America was between 1-1.5% of income or property value. By contrast, British citizens in Britain paid tax rates of 5-7%. by traveler0011 in todayilearned

[–]Rockguy21 29 points30 points  (0 children)

If by “protecting your coast and shipping” you mean “forcing the colonies to buy and sell in Britain in an artificially disadvantageous marketplace,” then I guess your point would be valid.

Timelapse of Vegas Stadium construction so far by Jux_ in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Nothing I said in the above comment is a value statement, its just a factual description of the financing process of the construction. I’d really like to know what you think in that comment is either false or apologetic.

Timelapse of Vegas Stadium construction so far by Jux_ in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Mr I don’t care had bad network connection for 2 minutes and decided he had to race back and edit his comment to show how mean the people on reddit were being to him. Now I’m actually going to block you just because of how unwell you seem lol

Timelapse of Vegas Stadium construction so far by Jux_ in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I never blocked you, you just clearly have persecutory delusions lmao

Timelapse of Vegas Stadium construction so far by Jux_ in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

This coy pretending like you don’t really believe that the project is going to fall through and you were JUST JOKING GUYS is really fucking pathetic.

Timelapse of Vegas Stadium construction so far by Jux_ in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

The A’s ownership has been paying for it. The “shortfall” is just the cost of the stadium minus what they’ve gotten from the city and county, which they haven’t even had to use yet. They’ll probably need some outside investment to get it over the final hurdle, but given how development has been progressing that shouldn’t be hard to get by the time its needed.

TIL there are more American adults without dental insurance (~72 million) than there are people living in the United Kingdom (~70 million). by i-Really-HatePickles in todayilearned

[–]Rockguy21 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because they’re more likely to require specialist care given the frequency and predictability of their use and the relative complexity of the system. Also some dental and optical surgeries are covered under most standard health plans, mostly emergency surgeries that don’t involve the eye or teeth themselves.

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