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>Bezos, Musk, Zuck and the likes (or even PG himself, likely) don't pay 40% tax on their wealth growth, they currently pays 0%.

No one should pay taxes on "wealth growth" because it's not realized. They paid income taxes on the shares once they received them, and will pay capital gains taxes once they sell them.

>In fact, to make them pay as much tax as their employees, there should be a 2% wealth tax, not 1%. Hence, a “mere 1%” is in fact a very generous proposal by leftists politicians and economists, as it would still mean the wealthy only get half the rate of working people.

They paid the same tax as their employees once they received the stocks. They will pay the same capital gains taxes as their employees once they sell.

That was fake news.

“The French researcher in question was in possession of confidential information on his electronic device from Los Alamos National Laboratory — in violation of a nondisclosure agreement — something he admitted to taking without permission and attempted to conceal,”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/world/europe/us-france-sc...

This is my now flagged original comment. Upset some people:

>Do you think there will be a deep national reckoning about what happened?

You're witnessing one. This is the national reckoning on open borders, DEI/wokeism, etc.

I also don't disagree, we need a national reckoning on all the things!

Even your framing people disagree with. Imagine if it was this spin instead:

People openly tell each other they are "ruining the country" over things like "should the US import millions of illegal immigrants and provide for them over it's own citizens" or "should I be forced to deny biological realities around trans people" or "should the government protect known criminal illegals from consequences" or "should men have to put their life on the line for a country that hates them" or "should there be investigations when protesters are violently disrupting ICE operations" or "should we ignore SCOTUS rulings we don't like". Both sides think their take on these questions is the only reasonable one and anyone on the other side is either delusional or downright evil.

Pushing an unpopular platform loss after loss also has consequencess.

You thinking that I think that was clever is telling.

>I make fun of all races, religions, and ethnicities equally.

No you don't.

>For instance, team password managers are a thing. And IT teams at many large corporations are not passing around an unsecured CSV files full of passwords.

It's CURRENTYEAR. No one should be using team password managers or files to store credentials. There should not be storable credentials.

Your antisemitism is showing. The comment doesn't mention Israel whatsoever.

iCloud is a thing. Your Apple device syncs many things on the cloud.

>But they all run Microsoft online email, Entra and so on themselves.

On their iPhones with Apple IDs.

Mitchellh is on to something. Some of the AI products I've seen seem like psychosis hallucinatory fever dreams, using terms and concepts that have no meaning. Funding? $50,000,000 pre-seed.

>I do not recall any such claims about right wing things.

Because you were gas lit or are currently gas lighting.

>I do recall worry about right wing things which were "outdoor"--but would have a lot of indoor spillover.

Don't more the goal posts or attempt to bring in something that never happened. This was about ANY large gatherings outdoors.

> The right always tried to portray it as political, but only by oversimplification.

The left are the ones who politicized the pandemic to unthinkable levels. The country's trust in the government is at all time lows because of it.

"Money" is subjective. Professors are paid a pittance (barely middle-class in some areas), are no longer generally respected, and are abused by their students and leadership at rates that have never been seen. There aren't many pros to academia.

My cousin dropped out freshmen year of college and went to a coding bootcamp. He makes more than my brother and his wife (both PhDs, both professors at a decent state college) combined. They're both looking at leaving academia soon.

They also don't care.

Exactly, and only if they're politically aligned and don't question the narrative.

Down almost 15% now. Investors hate the CEO's buzzword bingo slop.

>Kids eventually grow up and "start producing capital".

They can grow up in third-world countries where elites don't have to spend a dime. Then they lobby to import them by the millions to "start producing capital".

Dozens of customers affected! Dozens!

Except that's not what they said. Large gatherings anywhere were risky with people in close proximity. Outdoor events with many people in close proximity could become super spreader events. Unless the outdoor event was a politically aligned protest. In that case the rules didn't apply and there was no risk of it becoming a super spreader event.

Big outdoor gatherings *for right-wing causes*: big risk.

Big outdoor gatherings *for left-wing causes*: low risk.

Healthcare professionals: "Gathering in large groups in causing a genocide of the old, infirm, and immunocompromised!"

Healthcare professionals a week later: "Racism is a global health crisis and you must gather and protest in large groups to combat it. No, these specific gatherings won't spread COVID."

Shocking, but it may soon be (or is currently) true:

"Iran Prepares Death Penalty Law for Starlink Internet Use"

https://iranwire.com/en/news/145471-iran-prepares-death-pena...

No response, not surprised. Leftists in the US are likely further left than anywhere else in the developed world. Mutilating children in the name of LGBTQ, open borders, political violence, etc.

Marcan was clearly mentally unwell. He delusionally thought there was some harassment mob after him. After the fallout with Linux kernel devs, the lolipedo accusations, and him being outed as the vtuber Asahi Lina, he arguably did the correct thing: deleted every social media account and abandoned Asahi Linux. I hope he stepped away from screens and spent some time outdoors.

No reply. Not surprised.

>do you think that israel would be under threat of destruction if they ended the occupation of those territories?

Yes of course.

>if so, how did israel gain those territories in the first place?

By being better soldiers.

>if not, why does israel use that as an excuse for the continued occupation?

Buffer zone. You're just going in circles because you don't understand the basics.

Homebuilding in the Southern and Western US is almost entirely based on illegal labor. Trump's immigration policies have dried that labor pool up. These poor helpless homebuilders are getting exactly what they voted for and instead of blaming themselves they want to blame the easiest target at the moment: data centers

My flagged post above:

Linking a pedo-leftist schizophrenic's blog post as "proof" does the complete opposite of supporting the claim.