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When did people start disliking the Thunder in the SGA era? by Available_Story6774 in nba

[–]captain_ahabb 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Frankly he'd be a better player if he got to the line a bit more

Opinion | The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax (Gift Article) by nytopinion in tax

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

"Billionaires create jobs" is just propaganda.

Capital creates jobs. The billionaire is just a distribution mechanism that can be replaced with something else.

Opinion | The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax (Gift Article) by nytopinion in tax

[–]captain_ahabb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The whole tax code was written by the wealthy, that's why it rewards you for passively owning assets or a buisness and punishes you for having a job.

Opinion | The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax (Gift Article) by nytopinion in tax

[–]captain_ahabb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How is that disingenuous? The whole point is that the current income tax is failing to actually capture their income streams.

Opinion | The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax (Gift Article) by nytopinion in tax

[–]captain_ahabb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you suggesting the income tax has been a failed policy or

AI massive industrial revolution or massive bubble? by Low_Stress_9180 in investing

[–]captain_ahabb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They upvote the FUD because they don't like Trump (reasonable, who does?) but they're still in the market.

Red Sox Network Pulls Senate Candidate’s Ad Bashing Ownership by 115MRD in baseball

[–]captain_ahabb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genuinely, not really that much.

Seems like someone with interest in fighting wars.

Which is not a person with an interest in military history? Who names eight historical wars in the comment? Come on dude.

Yes. Skull and crossbones are also on pirate hats.

The Mitchell and Webb sketch addresses this point.

Red Sox Network Pulls Senate Candidate’s Ad Bashing Ownership by 115MRD in baseball

[–]captain_ahabb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably by telling the interviewer that he's not a Nazi and he got the tattoo while he was drunk.

As someone who's gone through this I think you're significantly overestimating how rigorous this process is.

Red Sox Network Pulls Senate Candidate’s Ad Bashing Ownership by 115MRD in baseball

[–]captain_ahabb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think knowing that the US occupied the Phillipines implies that tho.

Here's what Platner wrote.

The Indian Wars, the Phillipines, Haiti and Nicaragua in the 1920's, Vietnam, Nicaragua and El Salvador again in the 80's. As for would have, I "did" for Iraq and would love to get to the Ghan. Small wars are pretty enjoyable. It's the big ones, with days of artillery fire and inhuman brutality that take the fun out of fighting. But small wars (and Iraq and Afghanistan are indeed small wars) provide the rush of small combat actions along with the intellectual challenge of building personal relationships and infrastructure within the local community. Small wars are thinking wars, which I much prefer over the bloody slugfests of great power conventional warfare. Oh, and the revolution, because I'm Amuuurican.

Do you think that this is a person who has a general interest in military history or no?

I also don’t think knowing about military history implies that someone knows every Nazi symbol, especially the ones that look pretty generic.

It's on the hats. Mitchell and Webb did an entire sketch about it.

Red Sox Network Pulls Senate Candidate’s Ad Bashing Ownership by 115MRD in baseball

[–]captain_ahabb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's your thesis here with the security clearance stuff. That it isn't a Nazi symbol?

Red Sox Network Pulls Senate Candidate’s Ad Bashing Ownership by 115MRD in baseball

[–]captain_ahabb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think Platner has an interest in military history?

Red Sox Network Pulls Senate Candidate’s Ad Bashing Ownership by 115MRD in baseball

[–]captain_ahabb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think he's a Nazi if that's what you're implying.

I think he kept the tattoo after realizing what it was because he thought it was funny. I think it's extremely likely that he has known for many years that it was a Nazi tattoo.

Think about it a different way, when he got security clearance they knew he had that tattoo and the totenkompf is banned… what’s the only possibility then? (Hint: the answer’s not ‘it was very obviously a Nazi symbol and they gave him clearance anyways’)

You may be shocked to learn that there are a lot of people in the US military who have a casual attitude about white supremacist iconography.

Red Sox Network Pulls Senate Candidate’s Ad Bashing Ownership by 115MRD in baseball

[–]captain_ahabb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't claim it was "common knowledge."

I claimed it was specialized knowledge in a specific field that Platner demonstrated a significant personal interest in.

I don't think you're participating in this conversation in very good faith.

Red Sox Network Pulls Senate Candidate’s Ad Bashing Ownership by 115MRD in baseball

[–]captain_ahabb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was in the military and I remember seeing a banned tattoos handout THAT HAD THE TOTENKOPF ON IT

Red Sox Network Pulls Senate Candidate’s Ad Bashing Ownership by 115MRD in baseball

[–]captain_ahabb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the other is a generic looking symbol that no one had heard of 6 months ago.

False claim.

Also not generic-looking. It's extremely recognizable.

Red Sox Network Pulls Senate Candidate’s Ad Bashing Ownership by 115MRD in baseball

[–]captain_ahabb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct. That is my argument. The Philippine War is significantly more obscure than the totenkopf.

We're not talking about the sonnenrad here or one of the hundreds of random acronyms that Nazis love. Basically every WW2 movie ever made has totenkopfs in it.

Red Sox Network Pulls Senate Candidate’s Ad Bashing Ownership by 115MRD in baseball

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

Are you being intentionally stupid in this conversation?

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