@RealDJGun
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De-activist & bibliophile
Joined February 2018
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Pro tip: You're not fighting capitalism to have enough food, houses, or material goods of all kinds. Getting enough food, building an iPhone, or making sure your sewage goes away automatically instead of with a bucket carried to your driveway is a struggle imposed by reality itself. Capitalism is just the thing that gives you a chance of winning.
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Like honestly "it's going to take us several weeks to tell you who won the election" is failed state shit and should be much more stigmatized.
Hi @ConstantContact , you don't know me but if you don't tell me how to see the plan I'm on and the plans I can access BESIDES upgrading my account, which is all your "plan" screen takes users to, I will cancel my account forever. Using X because you have ZERO email options.
I'm so tired of every "creative" just being a print on top of the same 10 products, or a 3d print of something downloaded from Printables, or a knitted pattern. Didn't we use to make new things regularly?
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Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z:
You buy a Pokémon card for $50.
Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it.
The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes."
You: "…I didn't sell it."
Government: "Don't care. Pay up."
You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received.
Next month? That card drops back to $50.
Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs.
That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax...
Now picture this.
Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off.
But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have.
So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday.
Gone.
To pay a tax on money that was never real.
Now picture the opposite.
Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it.
Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000.
He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore.
Does the government give him his money back?
No.
Does the government give him his truck back?
No.
Does the government care?
No.
They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine.
You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive.
You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things.
It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday.
They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created.
There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate.
I hope you understand what's at stake.
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Most political arguments are simply negotiations over who gets to wear the boot.
The irony is that almost nobody doing the arguing ever actually wears it.
They imagine they do because they endorse its use. They cheer when it is pointed at their enemies. But this is only a comforting fiction.
They have no real say over how the machinery moves once it is built. They do not decide its targets. They do not control its incentives. They cannot pull it back when it turns, and it always turns.
The deeper irony is that the people who actually wear the boot do not care what the crowd thinks it is doing. They are not animated by your moral narrative or your sense of justice. They will use whatever justification is available, left, right, moral, technical, emergency, to keep their grip. Your argument is disposable. The boot is not.
And the final irony of it all, the more damage the boot does, the worse off everyone becomes. Centralized planning and force degrade information, incentives, and trust. It creates errors that compound, backlash that hardens, and control that grows cruder as it grows larger.
Tyranny often arrives to applause. Over time the applause inevitably fades, but the permissions remain, embedded in procedure, policy, budgets, and authority.
Unfortunately, the endpoint is always the same. Liberty dies.
What's up with the current trend in online shops of hiding the description about the item behind eleven click walls? Product->Info->Full Info->YES FULL INFO-> Show All? Am I the last person left who wants to know about what I'm buying or is this some sort of marketing psyop
Movie theaters are playing new movies at the same or greater frequency than they are playing new releases. Every time you hear that "Hollywood is dying" remember that it wasn't killed off, it killed itself. The public appetite is still there, they just stopped giving us anything worth seeing.
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"Thank you, you have consumed 4 bags of Cheetos this year. We hope you enjoy using CheetoTracker!"
Maybe there's such a thing as too much security.
I'm very tired of people with no earned resources trying to convince others to pool THEIR resources to a pet cause. Maybe figure out how resources work and how you can contribute/earn some. Until then I don't trust your judgement on the use of mine. They were hard to earn.
There's a modern thought terminating cliche that's gone unremarked so far, but which I am so, so tired of hearing: "They're not paying them enough to live here".
I live in a high cost of living (HCOL) area. It's a struggle as the costs are so high and I am not particularly rich.
So I have to take another chunk out of the bread. Now we're all stretched thin - my team's wages aren't keeping up, my product has dropped in quality, and I'm barely getting by. But the real trouble is: THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY CUTS YOU CAN MAKE.
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