Chucktshoes
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I’d suggest taking up a far healthier pastime. Like heroin or meth.
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Chucktshoes
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“Reasonable” isn’t a thing on the internet anymore. Of course most reasonable people don’t concern themselves with the Outrage of the Day
and have zero clue about the OK sign or whatever other terrible crime everyone is unknowingly committing. Other people no longer seem to have the ability to look at context and make rational deductions of intent with regards to what others say or do. Or maybe they don’t care because it isn’t about being reasonable, it’s about the dopamine hit from “doing something.”Bending the knee and apologizing to the mob only emboldens them. The only way to make them stop is to dismiss them with nothing more than a “that’s stupid. Shut up” then go about your business refusing to be cancelled.
It’s all just so fucking stupid.
I enjoy smuggly sitting back with a cup of coffee realizing it's nice not to be outraged all the time. Cancel culture and the anti-woke set are two sides of the same annoying coin. I'm tired of the middle ground or having nuance be treated as an awful thing. You can acknowledge something or someone is wrong while simultaneously not trying to destroy that someone or something. Conversely, you can acknowledge and appreciate that inclusion (being woke) isn't entirely a bad thing without feeling personally attacked because you are, for once, on the outside looking in.
TenderLovingKiller®
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I am an imperfect vessel, if I were to unintentionally offend people I don’t think I would have any issues apologizing and that is what he has done. The bigger issue is when people do apologize, especially for something like this, most are unwilling to show grace and forgiveness that they would expect if the shoe was on the other foot.“Reasonable” isn’t a thing on the internet anymore. Of course most reasonable people don’t concern themselves with the Outrage of the Day
Bending the knee and apologizing to the mob only emboldens them. The only way to make them stop is to dismiss them with nothing more than a “that’s stupid. Shut up” then go about your business refusing to be cancelled.
It’s all just so fucking stupid.
Dtknuckles
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Its funny because this weekend after getting out on one grocery store it tile me i need to got to the next one, which is my normal Sunday habit.
Amazon had sales income of €44bn in Europe in 2020 but paid no corporation tax
Despite lockdown surge the firm’s Luxembourg unit made a €1.2bn loss and therefore paid zero corporation tax
www.theguardian.com
So if I add up my mortgage, bills, medical spending, child spending, etc. why can't I claim losses and get my taxes deferred?Amazon had sales income of €44bn in Europe in 2020 but paid no corporation tax
Despite lockdown surge the firm’s Luxembourg unit made a €1.2bn loss and therefore paid zero corporation tax
Even worse. I had those losses 5 years ago but you know I decided to roll a bit of them over for each of the following number of years to get the maximum tax evasion benefit.
It’s sickening, as someone who feels that they should be facing a windfall tax off the back of them profiting from a pandemic to see them paying zero is just deflating on every level.
It's the working class who pays the taxes. Not the corporations or billionaires.
This is a hilarious video that sums up this whole battle.
I don't think we discussed this yet, but the results of the 2020 census are in.
It it's painting a very clear picture that the GOP will have the advantage in 2022.
Blue states are losing the most seats while Red states are picking up the most seats.
The following states are each losing 1 seat in the house of representatives.
With democrats only holding on to the majority in the house by single digits, these shifts in seats have a very good chance of shifting the majority party in 2022. And this is without considering how all the voter suppression bills being passed this year will have an effect on the election results.
As for the swing states listed, if the Republican party is in control at the state level odds are good it's blue seats that will be cut when they redraw lines.
It it's painting a very clear picture that the GOP will have the advantage in 2022.
Blue states are losing the most seats while Red states are picking up the most seats.
The following states are each losing 1 seat in the house of representatives.
- California
- Illinois
- Michigan
- New York
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- West Virginia
- Texas
- Colorado
- Florida
- Montana
- North Carolina
- Oregon
With democrats only holding on to the majority in the house by single digits, these shifts in seats have a very good chance of shifting the majority party in 2022. And this is without considering how all the voter suppression bills being passed this year will have an effect on the election results.
As for the swing states listed, if the Republican party is in control at the state level odds are good it's blue seats that will be cut when they redraw lines.
debianlinux
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North Carolina is going from something like 8-5 to 10-3 I believe.
Chucktshoes
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I bet Cuomo‘s regretting killing all of them old people before they could fill out the census forms.
But, we've got to ask exactly who is being added to places like Colorado, and Oregon where legalization happened very early. Then we have to look at places like Florida, Texas and North Carolina that are picking up a lot of millenials because of decent priced housing near jobs that pay decently. It will be interesting to see how they draw the districts--hopefully without too much jerrymandering--and see how many of those newly added seats flip blue.
dansomeone
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Alas, I think this hope will go unfulfilled.
debianlinux
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Right. NC GOP are on quoted record with stated goals for the 10-3 split BEFORE they start redrawing, lol.
How would NC look after the added seat? A 10-3 split is still 13 seats. There will be an additional seat in the 2022 election. So would the goal then be 11-3 split?
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This talk about gerrymandering has started to get me worried. While we haven't heard much about it in the news as of yet, just record numbers of voter suppression bills which have a more immediate effect. It does appear that after the SCOTUS cleared the way for gerrymandering we will also see a record number of districts redrawn following the 2020 election. They are setting them self up to comfortably control both the house and senate.
Former president Bush released his a book, and with that spoke to the press and answered questions about the current state of the Republican party. Something he has largely been silent on.
Some key things mentioned I find fassinating are:
Bush also commented that the Republican Party does not have a future if they stand for "White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism".
Some key things mentioned I find fassinating are:
- Bush would be considered unelectable if he ran for governor of Texas today.
- Bush would be considered unelectable if he ran for president today.
Bush also commented that the Republican Party does not have a future if they stand for "White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism".
Vermont stopped online unemployment claims after fraud spike
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles is considering whether to reopen a number of regional offices across the state that were closed during the early days of the pandemic...
I also heard from a small business owner that he received 3 unemployment claims today. One of them was for himself. Either he fired himself and didn't know about it or there has been some kind of fraud. Turns out all 3 unemployment claims received against his business today were fraudulent.
Unemployment fraud across the nation is skyrocketing.
It should be something on your radar to watch out for, because come tax season next year, if someone stole your identity and committed unemployment fraud you could end up with a massive tax bill which may take months to straighten out. People are still trying to get statis to correct tax forms from the 2020 tax season so that the IRS does not say they owe taxes. Meanwhile, until that happens, the IRS considers the money owed and is coming after people who they say owe it.