woooooo

16 ms·

271.
by woooooo 2y ago
Because income inequality is growing, they have more of the total money, they're paying more of the total taxes despite a lower rate. Whether you think that's a good thing or a bad thing, it's hard to call it progressive.
272.
by woooooo 2y ago
That's absolute dollars right? As in, they're paying more total dollars in income tax, despite a lower tax rate, because they're making so much more compared to 79? (Income inequality has steadily gone up). What was their e
273.
by woooooo 2y ago
Reagan did 3 big tax bills, 81 tax cut, 83 social security and the 86 reforms you're referencing. You're right that the 86 reform was pretty progressive but with all 3, the rich did great, poor did alright and middle class did poo
274.
by woooooo 2y ago
"Three decades" is doing a lot of work there. Reagan?
275.
by woooooo 2y ago
I wasn't really speaking from a moralistic perspective, not calling anything "ok". Murder gets investigated by national authorities depending on the deceased's passport, but pollution on the high seas has noone? In char
276.
by woooooo 2y ago
Shipping has no authority, right? I recall reading they switch to heavier, dirtier fuel in international waters because it's not illegal. How would we even begin regulating that? Treaties and some new deep sea enforcement agency?
277.
by woooooo 2y ago
The dirty secret is that everyone can see the problems. But the first person to point them out becomes "the problem".
278.
by woooooo 2y ago
The only thing you've got relating to the actual art is "it has stars"?
279.
by woooooo 2y ago
I'm with you on death of the author.
280.
by woooooo 2y ago
What are the politics of "starry night"?
281.
by woooooo 2y ago
It's fascinating to have a conversation like this in the context of AIPAC and the Gaza war.
282.
by woooooo 2y ago
> romanticized platitude of the 90s. I'm staying in romantic land, it beats the heck out of the government moderating which information I see for my own good.
283.
by woooooo 2y ago
Nvidia was pushing CUDA forward for over a decade before it started getting serious commercial traction. It's not like they blocked anyone else from developing viable GPGPU tech, they were just the only ones pushing it. For like 8 yea
284.
by woooooo 2y ago
I was responding to a comment saying that lifetime appointments prevent bribery. Justice Thomas is proving the theory wrong. Why should I believe his decisions are about principle when money is changing hands?
285.
by woooooo 2y ago
He's taken a suspicious quantity of "gifts", you can look it up.
286.
by woooooo 2y ago
That all sounds great in theory but.. waves hands at Clarence Thomas
287.
by woooooo 2y ago
Humanity sympathizers. Most people recoil at seeing 10s of thousands of children killed.
288.
by woooooo 2y ago
Bro, it's our illogical measurement system and we'll be as illogical as we want with how we notate it. Go compare cubic centimeters to milliliters or whatever.
289.
by woooooo 2y ago
Irrelevant compared to logistics. Russians are winning now because they've figured out logistics within 50 miles of their borders compared to earlier in the war. Still doesn't mean they can project globally, and everyone knows.
290.
by woooooo 2y ago
Pretty much? They have logistics problems 20 miles from their borders, we had excellent logistics for 20 years in frickin Afghanistan. They built Taco Bell restaurants on the bases. These are entirely different leagues of capability.
291.
by woooooo 2y ago
That tank column was defeated by mud and lack of supply, opposing forces were a distant third. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Kyiv_convoy
292.
by woooooo 2y ago
We just funded and managed two 20 year wars across the planet from our borders, one in a landlocked country. Russia couldn't move a tank column down a highway at the beginning of this war. Putin is definitely crushing us at manly and a
293.
by woooooo 2y ago
I think this is taking it too far. There are a lot of money and hype guys out there, none of the rest of them transformed the automotive and space industries. Most of them were shoveling money into "disrupt laundry" startups ins
294.
by woooooo 2y ago
USSR didn't terminally stagnate until 20, 25 years after Stalin died, though. They still looked pretty capable under Kruschev.
295.
by woooooo 2y ago
You really don't think so? Personally, threats of physical violence are very persuasive. Yeah I'll memorize that multiplication table.
296.
by woooooo 2y ago
Of course nobody consents to being executed. There are numbers on how many people get executed there: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_China#... It seems unlikely that the person making prosecuti
297.
by woooooo 2y ago
It's confirmed that, if you're executed by the state for treason there, you become an organ donor as part of that deal. Waste not and all that. The speculative part is where people start making organs the main point of the whole
298.
by woooooo 2y ago
I was more pointing at the different priorities and cultural biases. The western MBA ideology biases them against wanting to make boring, reliable low-margin goods.
299.
by woooooo 2y ago
Great post, thanks. This contrasts with the American inability to ramp up artillery shell production recently. Not enough money in artillery shells so the defense industry doesn't have capacity, they've been focusing on more pro
300.
by woooooo 2y ago
Counterexamples include civil rights in the 60s and south African divestment in the 80s. These protesters are trying to reenact the south Africa divestment campaign. Who's running south africa these days?

More ›