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Let their fucking billionaires pay for it. Or just keep the war going til they move. Either way, not on my goddamn tab, thanks.
How do you plan to stop them? Are you able to refile your taxes as exempt effective immediately? Because otherwise you are going to pay and there is next to nothing you can do about it...
Of course, I realized this right away. When we are done destroying everything, we are going to have to pay to fix it all up, as well as fix our own broken government.
Before we take it out of the Treasury, though, we should confiscate the entire fortunes and corporations of a few people, starting with Trump, Musk, Theil, Ellison, Bezos, the Waltons, and a bunch more. They wanted MAGA, they supported MAGA, and that choice will cost them every penny they've stolen to clean up their mess.
Netherlands here. Where should we apply for this US tax paid DEI grant?
pipedream
Why? It doesn't have to be. We are in unprecedented times, and it will require unprecedented solutions. Just because our elected leaders were too cowardly to do it the past, doesn't mean we have to keep following their shameful malpractice.
Perhaps the biggest one is a conscious decision that the citizens do not exist to serve the wealthy. The wealthy are allowed to keep their wealth, as long as they are serving the needs of the citizens. As soon as they are found to be hoarding wealth, abusing their employees or the systems, engaging in corruption, etc., they will be imprisoned, and their entire fortune confiscated, and their families prohibited from accessing government assistance.
The wealthy will quickly learn that wealth comes with important responsibilities and harsh punishments, and it might not be worth it to be wealthy.
I'm always going to be a little bit pissed off that we never got President Bernard Sanders.
Oh, I get it.................This is the bad place.
Been watching this again, it's nice to absorb something positive for a change. Gonna have to find something with the same tone to binge after this
Similar, Upload?
Just watched a couple episodes, and yeah, thats about as close as I could expect, thanks for the heads up!
Gonna have to find something with the same tone to binge after this
Good luck with that, The Good Place is pretty singular
I've always wanted to watch it and finally got around to it. Great show, wish I didn't sleep on it!
I did a Binge Watch January (totally didn't make this up) and caught up on a half dozen shows. I got some whiplash going from Barry to The Good Place to Severance lol
I'm still surprised and low-key amazed by the writers of The Good Place. Making a show about philosophy, existentialism and theology all mixed together into a great comedy is a feat and they pulled it off really well.
Even when I literally called the "twist" of season 1 from the first episode I enjoyed the walk there and never felt like it was super contrived. They easily could have taken that plot and ran it into the ground.
Honestly I can't think of another show that's dug into some pretty meaty philosophy and made it so much fun!
It's an impressive achievement to pack a primetime sitcom with as much philosophy as it did. Michael Schur is a great comedy writer but I had no idea he was more than that until this show. Apparently Ted Danson and Kristen Bell were the only actors who were told from the start
As for the twist, I thought of it more as a plot point. They were building up to it from the start and rest of the show hinges on it. At the risk of sounding negative, Season 1 was kind of like a long pilot episode to set up the true conflict of the series.
I'm not one to get emotional watching TV or movies but I definitely teared up at the end with Eleanor and Chidi
I'm not one to get emotional watching TV or movies but I definitely teared up at the end with Eleanor and Chidi
I always enjoy the "love will find a way" trope and they did a good job writing the characters as earnestly loving in a relationship that felt real and not simply contrived for the plot in and of itself.
Definitely will have to rewatch the series for a third time at some point in this lifetime.
Yeah, the relationship felt very earned. It didn't just play into the "opposites attract" thing, it was how the characters changed that made the other love them.
Maybe you can watch it a 4th time in The Good Place
The leverage of course being switching from the US petroleum dollar to the Chinese petroleum yuan.
This message brought to you by the Chinese century. The Chinese Century: Ni hao, motherfuckers.
America first. Where did I hear that?
No you mistook their meaning. They said "Us first". Everyone thought they meant the USA but the oligarchs literally mean "us".
Fist in the "get fucked in the ass* konga line.
America First!!! 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 🦅™
If people knew what was good for them, they would have supported him. Instead, racism, bigotry and intolerance was a priority for the majority of Americans. Good job fucking yourselves over last election. I hope Trump keeps this shit up till you guys reach the boiling point....
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of good folks in America, but arguably, not enough yet.
“What do you tell voters who are new to the process who say this makes them feel like it’s all rigged?” Tapper asked the DNC chair.
“Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don’t have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists,” Wasserman Schultz calmly explained.
Fuck Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Fuck the DNC. They literally worked against the will of the people to install an establishment candidate and told the world they did it. This is not democracy. This is the event that radicalized me.
You're confusing the DNC with the primary voters, who gave Clinton a landslide victory over Sanders. You can't get any closer to the will of the people than that.
Yeah, but thats a shallow fact. It ignores the very real truths of the dnc not staying neutral in 2016. It ignores the concept of superdelegate that existed back then. Sure the promary voters ultimately decided, but pretending like the dnc didnt put the thumb on the scale with its media aparatus is to be disingenuous.
Don't forget the Democratic National Convention ratfucking Bernie twice. Establishment Democrats can't let progressives get into power because it threatens their own, since Dems and Cons share a lot of the same donors (AIPAC, etc.).
If the US doesn't bail out the UAE they will need to sell some of their $2 trillion in assets to fund their SimCity in the dessert thats suffering because of ~~Epstein's~~ Epic ~~Fuck-up~~ Fury. A lot of those assets are in companies owned by Trump and his Oligarch friends.
KSA was the one building NEOM. But Dubai as simcity is acceptable. Property values down quite a bit since start of war.
So much for "America first"...
You didn’t see that little wording, “American billionaires first”
Should have read the fine print
And that's gonna come back through his resort isn't it
Worst, I'll call you a low IQ SOCIALIST. Boom.
who spends money on trump's businesses tho
On his business perhaps, this is also bribe territory. Big time.
Just tell them theyre a fucking colony now. Blow up the fucking palace. Would be cheaper, less unethical.
But the UAE doesn't have enough bombs to blow up the USA.
God help us, I hope we can vote our way out of the mess we put ourselves in but I doubt it. In 2028 he'll refuse to leave and everyone will just shrug
Well, it's not his money he's investing but it would be him who would see a return.
GCC states are US colonies. If they were not, they would get couped by CIA/Mossad. Only legitimated democracies in the world have CIA/Mossad approved governments. People in these nations generally have a poor view of Israel, and US has shown an incapacity to protect them. US alliance is a liability.
95% likelihood end of Iran war is US just leaves, and world figures out how to ship through SoH to the satisfaction of Iran. GCC colonies are instrumental to massive US financialization values. Petrodollar is not important, but recycling wealth to US is critical. To keep that colonial arrangement, US will need to help with reconstruction even if they no longer get arms sales and bases in the region, and CIA/Mossad threats to monarchies will continue even if some short term reversal of assistance flow occurs.
If war resumes, it can only be through consent of GCC (and other US colonies), and quick defeat/withdrawal of that consent occurs by destruction of desalination, ultra expensive ships that are sitting ducks serving those regimes, in addition to $Bs of damage to oil production/shipping infrastructure.
I honestly wasn't sure which ruthless dictator family he was talking about...Trumps or UAE. I take it he is referring to money going to the UAE here?
It also shows a lack of understanding for the UAEs political system. Who is he referring to? The UAE has multiple rulers and ruling families.
No i mean is Bernie referring to trumps family or a UAE family?