Nah what I'm saying is that most states' taxation rates are pretty close to what you'd get in other developed countries.
Except pretty much every other developed country has cheap healthcare and education. The US is truly alone in this, and it shows, because the US also has some of the worst inequalities of the modern world.
For now, I'm wondering what the Habs are doing exactly.
The Edmundston deal gives them 3.5M of cap space to play with, which seems to me like they're trying to sign someone, but which FA are they targeting?
A lot of the beliefs surrounding this issue are decade old lies that have been repeated so often that they've become the "truth".
Best example is the classic rhetoric of public bathrooms.
You might have heard that "Trans people just want to rape little girls in public bathrooms".
The fact is, the only instance of a trans person ever raping someone in a bathroom I could find was at a women's prison. Prison bathrooms have a certain reputation regarding rape, so let's leave it at that.
Meanwhile, trans people are 4 times more likely to be victims of rape than the general population, and I was able to find multiple instances of trans people getting raped in bathrooms by cis people. Let that sink in for a moment.
Getting people to realize these old lies are just that, old shitty lies, has given me some amount of success in educating people in real-life debates.
Biden just said how he's against that because that would be politicizing the supreme court.
Thing is, you can't win by playing by the rules when your opponent is constantly cheating.
The supreme court has clearly ALREADY become politicized, it can't get that much worse than rich white guys buying a black justice to do their bidding, now can it?
Which is so fucked. The supreme court shouldn't "lean" one way or another. They should interpret the laws and constitution and consider the merits of the letter vs the intent of the law, not give their own opinion on the matter.
I remember here in Canada, back in the days of Harper, just how many times conservative appointed judges struck down conservative laws because they were unconstitutional.
Whether they personally believe this or that shouldn't even matter at all.
It gives an air of legitimacy to those thoughts.
Those people are LOUD but they aren't nearly as numerous as we, or they, think.
Most people, by and large, just want to do their little thing and want to be nice to others, and want others to be nice to them. Most people don't care that their neighbors are a black gay couple, as long as they're nice.
When we let 10 people who post a 100 racist memes a day drown out the 100 regular people who post 10 times a day gives everyone the impression there is more racism than there really is, which breeds more racism, and drives out regular people who don't want to be on a racist platform.
(Using racism here as a stand-in for whatever form of bigotry you feel passionate about)
They love to tell us about how hard they had it because they worked 2 jobs to buy their first house at 22 lmao
Depends on how you define deliberate. The wealth gap between the super rich and the rest of us is getting bigger and bigger, and a lot of those issues seem related to that.
"Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced [robots] wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality." -Stephen Hawking
In order to have a higher chance of getting parts of you blown off?
More guns = more guns getting used.
Living in Canada I've literally never seen a gun, and do not feel the need to ever touch one. Much happier that way, than if I had a gun in case that other idiot has one too.
Complains that regular instances want to defederate them
Wants to defederate other instances
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Ah yes, MAGA types posting bullshit that conforts their twisted world views. An age-old classic.
Maybe, just maybe, when you've got to work this hard to find shit polls that agree with you, you're just wrong? Lmao
Lmao alright gotcha you're just not arguing in good faith then.
You're just stating an opinion and presenting it as an inarguable fact lol