The bombing is worse, but using signal instead of official communication channels is still really fucking serious. They want to plan and commit war crimes and avoid any responsibility for it by trying to keep it from ever getting under public scrutiny.

Ah yeah. It would take a lot. Even at 90% $100m from a billion is still way more than most of us.

If the tax bracket for no taxes is $10k, you don’t get taxed if make under that.

If the tax bracket for 5% is $10-20k, and you made $15k, the first $10k is not taxed, but the $5k is taxed at %5.

So you would never make $0 after taxes, even if you made it into the hypothetical 100% tax bracket.

Turns out, he wasn’t hiding behind civilians. Which is a smart move since that’s all Israel is blowing up.

As are we all.

It’s a condemnation of capitalism and all of human society that an idiot like Elon is the wealthiest person on the planet.

I know it’s that stupid. But it doesn’t matter that it’s stupid. They’re going to use it when they see fit and they have captured the whole legal system to use at their discretion to enact it no matter how stupid it is.

They’re fascists, they’re only going to enforce it when they want to hurt someone they don’t like or when it benefits them. They don’t give a shit about precedence or conviction or morality or anything other than what serves them in the moment. They have captured the courts, and both houses, and the presidency. Consistency or hypocrisy don’t matter to them. They’ll use whatever justification works in the moment and turn on a dime if it serves them.

Say, that does look like Blade Runner…

It’s scary because it’s falling on a lot of us. And it won’t just be the US that it falls on either.

That’s kind of a difficult thing to determine, when asked almost no one says they are, but if asked about policies, they tend to go for more progressive policies, even people that identify as conservatives will agree with more progressive policies. The people they vote for however, are definitely not progressive… Mostly, there are a few.

Then again, progressive in America is pretty much basic human rights and protecting vulnerable people which should be the minimum.

I think it was both playing chicken against each other. Dem leadership refused to listen to “progressives”, I E.: things that most Americans wanted, and the voters refused to vote until the Dems listened to them.

So they crashed into each other and now the country is going to burn down.

Pointing out racism is not you making everything about racism, it’s there being a lot of racist shit.

If he didn’t try a coup after he lost the last election, you might be able to give him the benefit of the doubt.

It’s far, far less than Israel has killed. Before Oct 7th, it was about ten to one Palestinians killed for every Israeli killed. Now it’s much much worse and getting worse everyday. Or does that not matter?

Now, can we say Hamas is bad? Of course we can, but by whatever metrics we use to call out Hamas as being bad, Israel is at least ten times worse.

You can’t bring in the amount of children Hamas has killed, and at the same time ignore that Is real has killed way more, and expect people to take you seriously. And if you want to try to play the “who shot first” game, that was also Israel, forcing its way into the land that they now occupy. And every square inch they have invaded since.

The Mexican pizza that had olives on it.

Maybe it does

The productive class vs the parasite class.