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by Whoppertime 1y ago
It depends what you mean by rich people. Do you mean people like Doctors and Lawyers who work for their money, or do you mean investors and CEOs who created a company worth millions/billions, and the shares they own in that company mea
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
Wasn't the income tax introduced as a temporary measure in WW1, and prior to that the majority of state income was generated via tariffs? Shifting the burden can certainly cause distortions, but we already caused those distortions gett
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
How are tariffs regressive? Income taxes are obviously progressive. If you earn $100,000 you are going to be paying a higher percentage of your earnings compared to someone making $10,000 or $50,000. It's not intuitive that someone who
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
This comment is built on mind reading. Like you can tell what Joe Biden or Barack Obama genuinely believed, and what Donald Trump or George Bush were pretending to believe. No evidence can convince you one way or another because you've
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You are using this logic to say it is pointless. They can use the exact same logic and say that's why their doomsday bunker needs to have a Lewis Gun or a Tank
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Yes but what prejudices we accept and which we do not is arbitrary. You have no choice over your height. Taller people can have more promotions and more dating opportunities, but we don't have affirmative action for short people, and w
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
You can find a lot of this in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. At its most extreme an Asian Student and Black student with the exact same MCAT test score would have a 21% acceptance rate for the former and 80% acceptance rate for th
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
What about Brown v. Board of Education? Do you think that Southern schools had an obligation to accept black students or did they not have to accept anyone at all? Do you think in 1900-1945 when Harvard Yale and Columbia were putting a quot
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
We can use an actual example. Joe Biden going into the 2020 election pledged that he would choose a black woman as his running mate. This pledge excluded half the population on gender grounds, and 87% of the population on racial grounds. Wh
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Is there a society for Men Engineers that is concerned with the impacts of issues on men?
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I guess that official doesn't believe in the Spaceship Earth worldview
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You should have been asking this question the last 4 years. But I guess when Kamala Harris declared the border was secure that meant the border was secure.
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Joe Biden was saying he had the back of Trans people in his State of the Union Address, trans kids especially. His white House was holding Transgender day of visibility and tweeting about transgender issues His Department of Education Secre
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
If you post "What are your favorite snacks at the movie theater?" you can get a 3 day ban from /ck/ which is too short to appeal. I posted a thread on the Television and Movie board asking what people thought of Matt Wa
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
I don't know what CSAM is and after reading the rest of your post I don't want to Google it
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Didn't Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon make a lot more money from the Ukraine-Russia as opposed to the Israel-Gaza war?
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We have given Ukraine more money in the last 3 years through foreign aid then Israel has received in the last 30 years
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Jewish Students on campus feel bad*
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Britain tried voting themselves out from under the influence of a politician in Brussels that nobody in Britain voted for, but found that removing that influence was a lot easier said then done.
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It seems like the big tent entertainment projects bringing people from various echo chambers have ended temporarily. 2019 was the release of Avengers Endgame and Star Wars Episode 9. I don't think the subsequent releases in those franc
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
It seems like the government has a soft Monopsony. There are many universities willing to sell research, but the government is the biggest buyer and controls the research grant market
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Who created Project 2025 and got put into power? Donald Trump and his campaign made Agenda 47, and he signed off on it as his campaign manifesto.
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Didn't we already have 20% inflation over the last 4 years? At least Tariffs will mean American products are 20% cheaper, with inflation there was no alternative to avoid getting charged, domestic production has no tariffs.
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It doesn't matter how much you manipulate people if they cannot afford to get married buy a home and raise kids they will know.
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Project 2025 is not what he is implementing. It had nothing to do with his campaign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47 He's implementing Agenda 47. That's his campaign manifesto. Project 2025 is somethi
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Per capita emissions is effected by population, and historical events that influence that capita being measured, like the Covid 19 outbreak. If you have 100,000 people living in a town emitting 100,000 tons of emissions and 10% of the popu
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Just like Obama didn't need to add to the Clean Water Act, just conveniently change how they interpreted "Navigable Waters"
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https://www.independent.org/article/2021/11/22/the-new-blue-... You would find this article from Victor Davis Hanson interesting
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Why are people moving away from places like California with heavy environmental regulations? It seems like those states aren't livable for the current generations https://www.resiclubanalytics.com/p/net-domestic-m
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You could ask the same question to the people who think the environment is very important but don't seem to care about how their electric car or its Lithium ion batteries are mined or manufactured. So long as it's not in their bac

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