Maeve

In Japan?

Feline Goddess, Bastet, mi amor! Now I feel better about catching your head in the door!

😒

The water tastes sweeter when the well runs dry.

We forget, get handed the lesson, repeat.

Anyone not plain vanilla and falling in line, apparently. Unless you’re fabulously wealthy or otherwise “useful.”

Thanks for that. I need to reread it a couple of times and stew on it for a good while. Being from the USA, my perspective is obviously skewed from that perspective. My immediate question arises from generations behind baby boomers who never had the opportunity of home ownership (and related maintenance/tax expenses), who may be able to inherit properties, if not having to be signed over to the state for necessary elder care expenses. In this situation, the beneficiary have wealth, but have to sell the property to pay taxes, then be taxed on savings, and still unable to afford modest housing, rented or bought.

In this example, my immediate thought is in favor of doing away with sales and/or VAT, but having aggressively progressive income taxes, with income under $x being exempted, or even negative tax burden*.

*Kitten bumped device before sentence completed.

Sure, and that’s extremely important context that should be included, because

taxes are a way - and always have been - to redistribute from the poor to the rich. Sounds about right.

Comes off sounding ancap or USA style libertarian.

Exactly.

We were, but being set to expire in a decade and redundant 24 hour news cycles means they were designed to be forgotten.

Can you find and link me to the article? Ideally, they’re to fund public necessities, schools and other infrastructure, roads, etc, fire departments, sanitation, defense, anything used by the collective.

I believe IBM will be happy to do their part.

But it might be noted that ICE raids are carried out using data provided by Silicon Valley companies—most notably Peter Thiel and Alex Karp’s Palantir, which has a $30 million contract with ICE to manage a “real-time” surveillance system on immigrants. But whether directly or through third party contractors, much of big tech, including Google, has made deals with ICE, too.

Tbf that happens out of jail, too.

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Absolutely the whole community has been amazing to me. Just noting you were the one that got me to watch Parenti.

You turned me on to him.

I am smiling, reading through this thread, remembering when I first came, and the good people of .ml calmly, patiently meeting my assertions with kindness, patience, facts and simple questions that caused me to stop and think deeply, sometimes for days. Also reading material and videos. Especially Parenti videos,

Socialism is so bad people like Einstein, Jack London, Helen Keller, MLK2, Mandela, Mark Twain, Picasso, Ghandi, Fred Hampton embraced some version of it.

Scratch a liberal…

I’ve been on Librewolf for a couple of years and yt is nagging me about ad blockers not being allowed, suddenly. Are they going to black screen me again?