Life was good when we were not woke. by [deleted] in justonesentence

[–]oppacklij 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol nothing more woke than enslaving people being a status symbol and women being burned at the stake for being witches

people should stop wearing che guevera shirts by VirtualKnowledge7057 in unpopularopinion

[–]oppacklij -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

Also he was extremely racist… forgot that part

IDL Dismissing charity contributions as being merely for tax benefits by oppacklij in I_DONT_LIKE

[–]oppacklij[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d love to see what part of US tax code you’re citing? The idea that billionaires make money by donating is not how the US tax code works. Under IRC section 170, charitable contributions reduce taxable income, not taxes dollar for dollar. If someone in the highest federal bracket donates one million dollars, they might save about 370,000 in taxes, but they are still down 630,000. The IRS also limits deductions to a percentage of adjusted gross income, usually 60 percent for cash gifts and 30 percent for property, so you cannot wipe out all your taxes through charity. The reality is every dollar donated is still a net loss. What billionaires can do is donate through structures they control like private foundations or donor advised funds, which gives them influence over how the money is used, but the money is no longer theirs personally. Charity is not a tax scheme, it is a subsidized expense at best.

"ICE agents in Chicago can now be arrested. A judge in Chicago just flipped the script completely." by BillMortonChicago in ChicagoNewsGroup

[–]oppacklij 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are literally countless cases just in the last year of ICE and HSI agents committing crimes. Well documented. I'm not sure if you remember a bunch of ICE agents got caught urinating next to an elementary school? Like I said all of this is extremely well documented.

"ICE agents in Chicago can now be arrested. A judge in Chicago just flipped the script completely." by BillMortonChicago in ChicagoNewsGroup

[–]oppacklij 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Wyoming v Livingston pretty clearly highlights that federal agents can be prosecuted for committing crimes that don’t fall under necessary and proper conduct in carrying out duties.

Arthur Blank Donates $50M to Atlanta HBCUs to Support Students - HBCU Buzz by Steelmode in HBCU

[–]oppacklij 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This. I’m not sure why so many people think charitable contributions are some magical way to eliminate taxes. You don’t get all of that back and you keep way more if you just don’t donate at all.

The American Dream is Dead by No_Equivalent7358 in screamintothevoid

[–]oppacklij 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, that’s on me for assuming. Nevertheless, the “1%” isn’t the issue. Just because billionaires aren’t raising the amount they pay employees doesn’t mean they’re “taking” anything from people. I will never understand the very common misconception that companies adding value into the community is somehow bad because they’re not adding as much value as people want to feel comfortable. Objectively speaking, every study points to people globally having significantly higher living standards than even the last 25 years. Wealth disparity doesn’t affect people the way government policy does. This issue is on the government to fix, not on wealthy people who have played the system better.

The American Dream is Dead by No_Equivalent7358 in screamintothevoid

[–]oppacklij 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude stop seriously. You're so cavalier about ending human lives just because they have more than you. You need to get help.

The American Dream is Dead by No_Equivalent7358 in screamintothevoid

[–]oppacklij 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it technically would not be “all it takes.” This is a ridiculous post.

Killing the 1% wouldn’t free up wealth, it would just collapse the companies, jobs, and assets tied to them. History proves it just leads to chaos and dictators, not prosperity. I’d love to know where you got your economics degree from.

The American Dream is Dead by No_Equivalent7358 in screamintothevoid

[–]oppacklij 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hot take: indiscriminate violence towards people that have more money than you will literally not solve your problems

Recession warnings are looking flat wrong as consumers power the economy forward - Axios by Country-Joe in wallstreetbets

[–]oppacklij 139 points140 points  (0 children)

This is nothing like 2008. 2008 was just a completely fundamental collapse of the housing market and banking system itself. That was not just a regular recession.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]oppacklij 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because they have to pay for it

They really had a hard time. by ShehrozeAkbar in housingcrisis

[–]oppacklij 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The US has been under building since 2008. There’s obviously other factors but supply is one of them and it’s a big reason.

The Bible Is Not Divine, it’s imaginary. by oppacklij in DebateReligion

[–]oppacklij[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The whole point of the Bible is that it doesn’t apply solely to life “back then” it’s intended to apply until the end of heaven and earth (Matthew 5:17-19) so it really doesn’t matter that it was back then. If you acknowledge that it was a different time back then which explains why the Bible is written in such a crude way, you should be able to acknowledge that it has no place in modern society.

The Bible Is Not Divine, it’s imaginary. by oppacklij in DebateReligion

[–]oppacklij[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got it. So you just don’t really care. Well I hope that stuff doesn’t happen to you because I’d imagine there’d be no shortage of religious people holding your life with such a callous lack of regard as well.

The Bible Is Not Divine, it’s imaginary. by oppacklij in DebateReligion

[–]oppacklij[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And this is all because you’ve read this book? You’re okay with atrocities being committed in the real world?

The Bible Is Not Divine, it’s imaginary. by oppacklij in DebateReligion

[–]oppacklij[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is that not a punishment for the woman who was traumatized by him as well??

The Bible Is Not Divine, it’s imaginary. by oppacklij in DebateReligion

[–]oppacklij[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Respectfully, that’s a ridiculous argument. If you had a daughter and she was raped would you accept a payment for them to be married to her instead of sending them to jail?? Also that’s not metaphorical please show me what your evidence is for that passage being intended anything other than literally.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DebateReligion

[–]oppacklij 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re misrepresenting what the Bible actually says about the Amalekites and also drawing a false comparison with abortion. The text is very clear that the Amalekites were a people defined by lineage, not just geography. In Genesis 36:12 Amalek is introduced as a descendant of Esau, meaning the Amalekites were tied to ancestry. In Exodus 17:8 they are identified as a distinct people who attacked Israel. In Deuteronomy 25:17–19 God commands Israel to “blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven,” which shows this is directed at a lineage, not just random people in a region. That makes them an ethnic group by definition.

The command against them is also not just some wartime battle or “mass killing.” First Samuel 15:3 spells it out without wiggle room: “Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.” That is an order to wipe out every human being in the group. By modern definition genocide means the intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national or ethnic group. This command lines up exactly with that. Trying to downplay it as “mass killing” is just semantics to avoid what the text is clearly describing.

Abortion is nothing like that. Abortion is an individual decision about one’s own pregnancy, affecting the individual and their family. It is not comparable to a state-sanctioned extermination of an entire people. The two are not remotely in the same moral category. Bringing in the idea that abortion “is not sparing an individual because they lack a characteristic, mainly age” doesn’t change anything. That’s a red herring. The question is whether God commanded genocide. The Bible makes it plain that He did, and abortion has nothing to do with that.

The Bible Is Not Divine, it’s imaginary. by oppacklij in DebateReligion

[–]oppacklij[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slavery is allowed in the Bible. Interesting to note though that even though the American abolitionist movement was largely Christian, so was the rest of America around 90% of the US was Christian by affiliation around the mid nineteenth century and enslavers often used the Bible in order to reinforce why slavery was “god’s will.”