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Had another song by Jack Ingram that really was a good heart string tugger so did a search and ran across this song and really like it. And it is an ultra-crisp recording to boot.
"Egal, wer regiert. Es ändert sich ja doch nichts. Die machen alle dieselbe #Politik".
Ich finde, das stimmt nicht.
Seit den #Wahlen in den #USA und bei uns hat sich echt viel verändert:
- Man kann Angehörige von #Minderheiten wieder öffentlich verächtlich machen ("Zirkuszelt") - Man kann die schwächsten in der Gesellschaft (#Geflüchtete, #Bürgergeldempfänger*innen) pauschal diffamieren und für alle Probleme verantwortlich machen - Man kann wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse (menschengemachter #Klimawandel) einfach leugnen - Man kann wieder #Listen anlegen wie früher (psychisch Kranke), falls man die mal braucht - Man kann sich bewusst über (deutsches wie internationales) #Recht hinwegsetzen (#Grenzkontrollen, #Zurückweisungen, #Netanyahu) - Man kann die Tötung von Menschen als "#Drecksarbeit" bezeichnen und sich im selben Satz dafür bedanken - Man kann aber auch die zuvor als unverantwortlich gescholtenen Politikansätze der heutigen Opposition übernehmen, wo es einem selbst Spielräume eröffnet (#Schuldenbremse, Wehr-Etat 5%).
Die Liste ließe sich fast beliebig verlängern. Aber wir sind auch so schon um Jahrzehnte zurückgeworfen, in denen mühsam gesellschaftlicher #Fortschritt erarbeitet wurde.
Und ich wünsche mich (und uns) tatsächlich zurück - in die Zukunft.
Die CDU stemmt sich gegen das Hissen der Regenbogenflagge am Bundestag, Kanzler Merz äußerte sich besonders schnodderig. Die Opposition – aber auch CDU-Politikerinnen – reagieren verärgert.
Die @SPDde hat bei ihrem Parteitag einstimmig für die Vorbereitung eines AfD-Verbotsverfahrens gestimmt.
Wir begrüßen diesen längst überfälligen Schritt und fordern: lasst euren Worten Taten folgen! #NieWiederIstJetzt #AfDVerbotJetzt ✊🩷💚
Wir waren am Parteitag vor Ort und haben den Abgeordneten über 1.000 Postkarten mit euren Forderungen zum Verbot übergeben. Danke an alle, die diese und andere Aktionen unterstützt haben! Nur durch euren Druck sind solche Meilensteine möglich.
Ich meins ernst. Wer mir noch mal erzählen will, dass fairer Lohn und soziale Sicherungssysteme „Sozialismus“ und „linksextrem“ sind, sollte besser nicht mehr in die Nähe meiner Reichweite kommen. Ich hab dieses #Egoistenblabla so gestrichen satt!
Obendrein kommen Vorschläge aus der CDU, Fördergelder für Wärmepumpen zu streichen. All das schafft Anreize, weiter mit Gas zu heizen.
Von diesen Maßnahmen profitieren nur diejenigen, die Gas verbrauchen – und energieintensive Konzerne und die Gasindustrie.
Das ist ein offener Bruch mit Zusagen aus dem Koalitionsvertrag – und eine Kampfansage an den Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien.
Doch immerhin regt sich auch in der Koalition gerade der Widerstand gegen Reiches ungerechte und klimaschädliche Pläne.
Schon zu Reiches Amtsbeginn hatten wir vor massiven Interessenkonflikten gewarnt, weil die neue Ministerin jahrelang Chefin eines Gaskonzerns war.
Dass sie die Interessen der Gaslobby nun so unverblümt bedient, hätten selbst wir nicht gedacht.
➡️ Beispiel 3: Agrarminister Alois Rainer (CSU) gibt sich betont kumpelhaft beim Bauerntag – dem zentralen Event der Lobby der Agrarindustrie. Man sei „zu Gast bei Freunden“.
Sein Freundschaftsdienst an der Agrarlobby: Umweltauflagen beim Düngen abschaffen.
Das schadet den ohnehin bereits belasteten Böden, dem Trinkwasser und dem Klima – und damit uns allen.
Der Bauernverband hatte zuvor genau dafür lobbyiert und die Auflagen als lästige „Bürokratie“ abgetan. Nun hat er seine Wünsche erfüllt bekommen.
Bereits der Koalitionsvertrag enthielt zahlreiche Lobbygeschenke an fossile Konzerne - insbesondere die Gasindustrie.
Die neue Bundesregierung zeigt immer deutlicher, dass ihr fossile Geschäftsinteressen wichtiger sind als das Gemeinwohl.
Nun heißt es: fossile Lobbyinteressen weiter sichtbar machen und gemeinsam zurückdrängen. Dazu braucht es starkes zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement – und integre Politiker:innen, die sich dem Gemeinwohl verpflichtet fühlen!
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Diese Damen und Herren kriegen von der Hitze auch nichts mit. Vom klimatisierten Haus über das klimatisierte Auto ins klimatisierte Büro. Diniert wird im klimatisierten Restaurant. Regieren mit einem Weltverständnis aus der Blase geht zwangsläufig an 80% der Bürger vorbei.
Frau Reiche handelt inkonsequent, denkt maximal bis zum Quartalsende. Klimaschutz bedeutet auch Erhalt der wirtschaftlichen Nutzbarkeit des Planeten - auf einem unbewohnbaren Planeten gibt es keine Wirtschaft mehr.
Je ärmer, desto mehr gefährdet durch die Hitze. Der Grund: In Stadtvierteln, wo Menschen mit niedrigem Einkommen leben, gibt es mehr Beton und weniger Grün. Die fatale Folge: Unter Menschen mit niedrigem Einkommen gibt es mehr Hitzetote. Deshalb fordern wir mehr Unterstützung bei der Klimaanpassung und Hitzegeld analog zum Schlechtwettergeld im Winter. #Hitze #DieLinke
"I paid for the full funding of healthcare and it is in fact fully funded, so I would like you to not steal it now in order to pay for the weddings and dream homes of six hundred nontaxpaying billionaires' heirs for the next four generations, please."
"Oh, but now we must manacle you and drag you and your wheelchairs away for having spoken those crazy talks, And then to be stealing your savings."
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WATCH as the DC police ARREST people in wheelchairs in the Russell Senate Office Building!
They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid.
#WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
Die Trump-Regierung will die Anti-Abschiebe-App »ICEBlock« verbieten – und macht sie damit erst richtig bekannt. Nutzer melden ICE-Razzien, ohne persönliche Daten preiszugeben. Nun droht das Weiße Haus dem Entwickler – doch die Downloads steigen. Ein Lehrbuchbeispiel für den Streisand-Effekt. 🏝
Eine Crowdsourcing-App gegen Abschiebeeinsätze in den USA wird von der US-Regierung massiv kritisiert. Doch das hat der App erst richtig zum Erfolg verholfen.
No, @washingtonpost, nuclear energy is not “ world’s largest source of non-carbon-based energy”. That’s hydro. Your Editorial Board could have found out simply by toggling the controls on the page you linked to. &Wind and Solar are leaving nuclear in the dust in terms of growth.
This editorial is misleading in many other respects, too (e.g it conveniently skips the fact that nuclear energy is extremely expensive and always reliant on taxpayer guarantees). Also: it sounds like you really hope #Trump will read it (he won’t). washingtonpost.com/opinions/20…
Weder in 🇩🇪 noch in den meisten anderen Ländern reichen die Maßnahmen nicht mal ansatzweise für die EU-Klimaziele aus. Was macht die Politik? Sie beschließt nicht zusätzliche Maßnahmen, sondern weicht die Ziele auf. Die #Erderhitzung geht also munter weiter. tagesschau.de/wissen/klima/kli…
Bis 2040 will die EU 90 Prozent ihrer Emissionen reduzieren - das ist ihr neues Ziel. Neu sind vor allem Klimazertifikate, mit denen Länder einen Teil ihres Ausstoßes auf dem Papier kompensieren können. Fachleute sind skeptisch.
Green sweatshirt guy (Chibi) inviting himself on the couch while mustache guy (CavemanDCJ) is doing a speedrun. That day was Chibi's birthday.Full stream: ht...
Oh, absolutely, Microsoft, please, by all means, continue with your grand experiments like Recall Spyware, deleting email accounts in far-flung corners of the globe or stealing data for AI training. Rest assured, these brilliant strategies will have absolutely no bearing on Win11 desktop adoption. None whatsoever. We thank you from Linux HQ. Lmao.
Perhaps in your experience. Wayland is working great for me. I haven't used X11 is quite a while now. X11 is ancient, and most people should stop using it.
Wayland started with far fewer issues than X11 did. When I first started using Linux, X11 issues were the majority of my problems, and I spent untold hours solving them. I guess some people don't remember that or weren't around at the time.
There are a few very vocal detractors, but there are always those people any time systems change. They can mostly be ignored.
Also, I'm not claiming that nobody should use X11. It's very possible there are edge cases where it's the only option.
Yeah, there are a few apps that will never work on it because Wayland is not a replacement for X11.
They really should have debloated/Optimize X11 instead of going to Wayland.....X11 is tried and true and just works. One man, Xlibre, is going to do that
Well, good luck to him, then. But he's fighting a losing battle. Also, he appears to be a bigot and a nazi-sympathizer and I want nothing to do with him or his project.
wayland still won't let me set my tv that I bought in 2019 to 4k60. I've already spent 6 hours trying to diagnose it. at this point I would use code written by a professional animal torturer before I would use wayland. if you think it's ready to be forced on people and have the working alternative taken away then you're the bad guy.
Watch, what'll probably happen is X11 will stop being supported (at all) and everyone will be forced onto Wayland, and then a few years later everyone starts to realize it's basically the BTRFS of window managers, 85% there, always has been, always will be.
Then the big scramble comes, smaller more grass roots distros switch to XLibre, big corporate ones hold out and remain swamped in bugs.
Linux desktop experience remains not-that-bad but only if you do NOT install Ubuntu.
Meanwhile: Microsoft to cut about 4% of jobs (9000 engineering talents) amid hefty AI bets. This was announced hours ago bloomberg.com/news/articles/20… this job cut help offset rising spending on AI infrastructure/investments and reflect a greater push to use AI tools internally, according to an analyst with Bloomberg.
Microsoft Corp. began job cuts that will impact about 9,000 workers, its second major wave of layoffs this year as it seeks to control costs while ramping up on artificial intelligence spending.
the math works out here to ms losing 9.5% of its userbase year over year for the last 3 years running.
400 million users out of 1.4 billion is 28.5%
so in 3 years, ms has lost nearly ONE THIRD of its userbase.
From my perspective as a former IT professional for 34 years, and a Microsoft Retail Partner, etc. is why there is anything above about a 10% adoption rate of an overpriced bunch of crap.
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Nearly every Friday night for the last 3 years I’ve done bad movie night with friends in vrchat. This week it’s Slaughter Day (followed immediately with a good movie, Team America)
Reichensteuer in den Bundestag! Seit zwei Tagen läuft die Bundestags-EPetition und hat schon 8000 Mitzeichner. Superreiche sind für viele sozial-ökologische Probleme mitverantwortlich. Eine gut designte Steuer würde sie nicht schmerzen, aber allen nützen. Besonders clever: Progression des Steuersatzes: Je reicher man ist, desto mehr zahlt man- entsprechend dem Prinzip der Leistungsfähigkeit. epetitionen.bundestag.de/petit…
FYI @johnnydoomsayer It's more happening here than on Gab today. Only Mein Nigger and one girl liked my pork chops over there. (Yes, I have my own nigger on Gab, he adores me, don't know why.)
It's been in the news lately that a young active member of the Nazi brutality-clubs "Active Club" is "linked to a member of the government" of Sweden, according to major news-media reporting. Some "experts" and colleagues dismissed it with phrases like "well, what can you do, we're all linked to so many people", buuut... ...turns out "linked to" may have a bit deceptively vague phrasing, as the person (Gustaf Forssell) is Minister for (actually against) Migration Johan Forssell's... son, also acting as a recruiter for the Fascist youth-group DFSU, reports AFA (antifa) Stockholm in the latest of their consistently reliable releases.
Well, if you know the politics of that minister, you're probably not shocked. My response at learning which minister it was, was literally "ooooh, THAT makes sense".
Members of Freedom Press react to the Labour Party's decision to not just ban a non-violent campaign group, but also the voicing of any public support for th...
OTD in 1863, Colonel Strong Vincent, a relatively lesser Union leader whose bold stand on Little Round Top on Day 2 saved the Union line, and arguably the Union itself.
On July 2, 1863, Vincent’s brigade was rushed to reinforce the Union left flank as Confederate forces under James Longstreet attacked. Recognizing the undefended Little Round Top—a hill critical to the Union line—Vincent acted without orders, positioning his brigade atop the hill just minutes before Confederate troops from John B. Hood’s division assaulted.
He placed the 20th Maine (under Joshua Chamberlain) on the far left, with his other regiments forming a thin line. As waves of Alabamians struck, Vincent rallied his men, reportedly shouting, “Don’t give an inch!” Struck by a bullet while waving his riding crop, he fell mortally wounded. His brigade, inspired by his example, held firm, with Chamberlain’s bayonet charge sealing the defense. Vincent’s stand saved Little Round Top, securing the Union flank.
Vincent was carried to a nearby farmhouse, where he lingered for five days, dying of his wounds on July 7, 1863, at age 26. he was promoted to brigadier general on his deathbed. Fellow officers, including Chamberlain, praised Vincent’s foresight, with V Corps commander George Sykes noting his loss as “irreparable.” His sacrifice at Little Round Top was initially overshadowed by larger narratives but later recognized as a linchpin of the Union victory.
Strong Vincent’s defense of Little Round Top is now celebrated as a defining moment of Gettysburg. His quick thinking preserved the Union line, enabling the victories of July 3.
@GummyNerds Had the South had defeated the Union at Gettysburg, I think there is a good chance that the North would have accepted terms peace and Southern independence. By saving the day at Little Round Top and allowing the Union to fight on and win the battle on July 3rd, one could argue he was responsible for saving the nation.
First and foremost, the Union was never in jeopardy; it would have continued to exist had Lincoln not fought to deny Southern states their rights. Secondly, Lincoln's war destroyed the Union. Thirdly, Rex Manning can go suck an egg.
Utopischer Roman: Deutschland hat eine Regierung, welche die Bedürfnisse der Bürger*innen und deren Zukunft priorisiert und nicht die Interessen der Reichen und der Fossilindustrie. ✨🛸
Zwei Bekannte von uns, ein schwules Paar, das aus ... Gründen nicht in den USA bleiben kann, brauchen sehr kurzfristig und für länger eine bezahlbare 2-3 #Zimmerwohnung in #MA. #ÖPNV-Anbindung wär super, #Bahnhofsnähe ein Extraplus. Die beiden reisen mit ihrer Emotional-Support-#Katze Smudge.
Bitte helft Jay und Stephen.
Teilen explizit erwünscht. Foto (c) SBS News, dient der Aufmerksamkeit
NASA’s newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now settled into low-Earth orbit, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) has begun delivering its sky survey data to a public archive on a weekly basis, allowing anyone […]
NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope has begun delivering its sky survey data to a public archive, allowing anyone to probe the secrets of the cosmos.
Titelseite taz, 2.7.2025 Merz aus Vogelperspektive, Sicht auf seine umkränzte Glatze, Handhaltung, als bekäme er gerade Kopfschmerzen, Schlagzeile: "Hitzewelle immer schlimmer: Erstes Hirn verbrannt"
Der Satz vom „Zirkuszelt“ ist in so vielerlei Hinsicht enpörend. Nicht nur, weil er die Anliegen der LBBTIQ-Community zur Clowneske erklärt. Auch weil er das Gedenken an die Verfolgung Homosexueller in der NS-Zeit lächerlich macht. Man stelle sich nur vor, es ginge um andere von den Nazis Verfolgte.
A report by The Guardian newspaper acknowledged that the U.S. airstrikes against Iran not only breached the United Nations Charter but also exacerbate global tensions, as the U.S.
>Ready or Not Lore >Swatting a twitch streamer leads to a child trafficking conspiracy >DLC >There's a Mission where you raid a luxury cruise ship where the HVT is an Arabian Oil Sheikh sex pest.
I fucking hate that I won't have expendable money until after Steam sales, I REALLY want to fucking play this.l
I can’t stand working in corporations because productive people aren’t rewarded as much as people that learn how to be charming and polished squeaky corporate clean.
>Schizolibs are now convinced Trump is flying cargo planes full of illegals out over the ocean and dumping them out the back. I wish the gigabased Trump that exists in their delusions was real.
Yeah people are only just starting to wake up to why these people don't want to / "can't" go home. It's not because their home countries are dangerous. It's because they're be arrested for crimes they committed at home.
Also, I seem to recall dubya pushing hydrogen fuel cells, wtf happened to that. Would have made a thousand times more sense than dangerous toxic lithium batteries.
GM and Honda have been collaborating for years to develop hydrogen fuel cells and these efforts are finally yielding results. Production of hydrogen fuel cel...
"Investigation reveals that a NYC driving school was fraudulently fast-tracking driver's licenses for illegal aliens, with some not even knowing how to drive at all." fixvx.com/libsoftiktok/status/…
I know that "females" is seen as icky when describing women or girls, but since not all women were born female and not all born females are women, would that make addressing them as such transphobic?
In most situations, it would be rather strange to refer to a trans man as "female". Might get away with it if it's specifically about their chromosomes and you're writing a scientific text about that, but that doesn't really come up that often.
" Inkspire - Like a pulse from somewhere between insomnia and rebellion. "
The Paper Doesn’t Ask Why..
I often sit in front of empty paper not to write but to unload the static, from both inside & outside — All those fragments that crowd behind my sometimes grinding teeth..
Then Dreamscribe whispers through cracked windowpanes at 3:14 AM. She doesn't knock. She never asks permission.
Quillusion hangs in the corner, as half-mirage, sometimes in half-memories I never lived. It watches. It waits. Sometimes it laughs.
& then Inkweave—the ritual, the thread of symbols looped through bone-deep meaning. I pull it tight, or let it unravel, depending on the weather inside my chest.
Fableflow arrives late. Always. - Dragging stories like shadows on broken glass, and they bleed— not red,nor black from the pen but something louder.
& The paper doesn't ask why. It just listens Pending senses through the pen..
Premier Doug Ford says Ontario will try to hit its climate change targets by 2030, despite internal documents suggesting the province is not on track to meet the emissions reduction goals.
Ford was responding to a report from CBC News that shows the province is projected to miss a key climate change target by three megatonnes of emissions in 2030. The premier said Ontario is working hard to hit the mark and committing to nuclear energy as a way to help green the province's electricity grid.
"Our goal is always to hit 100 per cent and we'll do it as quickly as possible," Ford said on Friday. "That's our goal, and that's what we're going to do. We're going to do our very best to achieve it."
Because Carney hired the former mayor of Vancouver, and the NDP performed mass immigration into a housing crisis while worrying about Tim Hortons going bankrupt.
Millionaires with a few million dollars aren't the problem
The biggest problems are the handful of billionaires and the billionaires that are not Canadian but have a strangle hold on companies or corporations that affect Canada.
If the government could just tax the ever loving shit out of billionaires, they'd remove the single root cause of a lot of problems in the country and actually allow some sort of competition in all industries. This would allow the economy to spread the wealth to more Canadians than to a bunch of non-aligned billionaires who could care less what country they are attached to because their wealth is so great, they are basically their own country at this point.
Millionaires aren't the problem .... Billionaires are
That is another better perspective ..... and also why again do we have a civilization that allows someone to own so much wealth that it is not feasible or even possible for them to enjoy all the money in one lifetime?
Holy shit this perspective is enlightening ... and also very depressing ... thanks
I mean that too, but also cost of living, rent if you don't own a home, etc add up over the two or so decades you'd expect to live after retirement. And if you do own a home, congrats you're a millionaire.
In the current situation yes. The point is we need to fix it so one doesn't need excessive capital to simply retire, and the rich begging to be taxed more can do a lot on their own to help without the Government.
I know plenty of millionaires ... people who own property, vehicles and wealth that all amount to one or two million ... and they are still just getting by. They aren't that terribly wealthy - they don't live with any more luxury than most people, they just have more things.
Billionaires on the other hand are something else ... it's like comparing someone with a weight problem and calling millionaires slightly pudgy and billionaires are grossly overweight behemoths that can affect the structure of your house.
Here's a visual comparison using grains of rice of what a millionaire and billionaire and the wealth of someone like Jeff Bezos is
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Sure, but we don’t “need” anything above our basic survival cost, let’s go live on the Savannah and hunt our food again.
For me the problem are those who hoard wealth, who don’t earn a salary but sit and live off their massive pile of accumulated wealth. We need a wealth tax now.
How about instead of begging to be taxed you invest that money into a project needed to help Canadians who aren't well off.
Build housing with your money.
Build infrastructure with your money.
Help others fund Green alternatives with your money.
Donate to the thousands of charities who will do this all for you if you are lazy.
But stop bitching like you do not have the option to spend that money well on your own for the benefit of others. Especially when the rhetoric is "Government bad" at all times making it really hard to push for a tax increase on anyone.
All throughout most modern history ... if you set up an economic system where you allow humans to gain unbelievable amounts of wealth and ask them or wait for them to share it, they never do and instead use that wealth to gain even more sums of wealth in a never ending cycle. I know plenty of wealthy people and they do share their wealth, just not in the sums you want to imagine - they share a few hundreds or thousands here and there but never enough to create meaningful change and never in the amounts to affect the growth of their wealth.
The Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes. 400 kids lost their school. Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.
Using money for charity is great, but having the government tax and manage it all instead is much, much better. Because it won't suddenly disappear. Unless your ruler's name is Donal Trump.
Uh... Given their values it is very likely they do donate to charities, but how far do you think a million can go in the modern day? You say "build housing," but a million dollars are like, a house? Two houses? Until you reach the hundreds of millions level of obscene wealth, you need numbers before you can get anything done, so pushing for higher taxation is one of the most productive things this person can do with their time and money.
A lot of wealthy families believe philanthropy should fill these gaps, but that’s not going to cut it. Charity has its place. Private philanthropic initiatives can take risks and innovate in ways that the government’s financial controls and political concerns don’t allow. For example, I’m putting money into marine electrification—funding research, engineering and infrastructure to shift boats and ships away from fossil fuels. This is a new and niche part of the climate fight, where private efforts can actually move the needle.But, at the end of the day, only the Canadian government has the scale and breadth to lift all Canadians up to a better standard of living. Just as importantly, the Canadian government is accountable for its spending to all Canadians. A democratically elected government that demands the wealthy reinvest in this country—instead of waiting for them to pick and choose their own spending priorities—is the only solution to our biggest economic issues.
The person who wrote the article is using their wealth for good according to the article, but more importantly as he says only the government has the scale to use the 0.1%'s wealth for the benefit of all Canadians. This is about more than just wealth; we're talking infrastructure, knowhow, flexibility, scalability, legitimacy and a whole host of other factors here. Philanthropy is a bandaid, but it's not a sustainable solution because it's ultimately predicated on the whims of an individual. And again, to repeat: "Never have to work again in my life" money and "literally change the world" money are completely different scale. The person who wrote the article seems to be the former, not the latter.
The problem with this is creates a bunch of micro-musks, who can get high ideals for shifting society into their warped perceptions by sniffing their own virtuous farts.
The system we have certainly isn’t fair or efficient, but it’s better than feudalism dressed up as altruistic capitalism.
Warren Buffet and Bill Gates did this joke already.
Write an Op-Ed about how they aren't taxed heavily enough. Then spending millions to prop up conservative political campaigns dedicated to cutting taxes.
Quit buying this horseshit. You'll know a millionaire is lying when their lips are moving.
Carney is running to the Conservatives for support more than he is the NDP. There's a lot to criticize him for from the left. Whereas the right has got three tax cuts and a promise to hugely increase the military budget in just a few months of this government.
We don't need to increase the military budget to 5% of GDP, a greater share than the US currently spends on it's military by 1.6%. That's insane and will certainly mean cuts to services like health care.
Taxes cut under this government:
Consumer carbon tax
Capital gains tax increase
Digital Services Tax
Carney cuts taxes like he won as leader of the CPC.
That doesn't justify spending more as a percentage of our GDP on the military than the USA who spends more than the next 10 or something states combined. I'm not giving up nationalized health care because Donald fucking Trump wants to shake down NATO and make Canada spend 30% of it's national budget on American arms.
I'm not going to suggest numbers, but think you absolutely need to invest more in defense against states with far right leanings, like the USA. The good news is taxing the ultrawealthy into oblivion can provide all necessary services.
Okay, but Carney is not going to tax the ultra wealthy. His track record so far is cutting taxes, including one targeting the wealthy specifically. People talk about raising military spending without considering that that money is going to have to come at the expense of something else. We talk about the cost in terms of percentage of GDP because it makes a nice small non-scary percentage like 5%. But that represents just shy of a third of the national budget, over double what we just recently raised our spending to. That money is not going to come from new taxes on the wealthy, it's going to come from cuts to services. Health care being the meatiest place to make those cuts.
Wealth hoarders are the problem. Millionaires aren't wealth hoarders, and any multi-income home that lives a frugal lifestyle can become millionaires before they retire (and they'll need to, if they don't plan on working into their 80s).
But there should be no such thing is a billionaire, let alone, a billionaire with HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of hoarded wealth.
Sure, we can tax them more (and should!), but we should also design a system where wealth hoarding isn't incentivized. It should be actively discouraged, and punished at a certain point.
I hear you, and i agree. I don't understand how to achieve it though, a tax on net worth, with brackets starting at 100 million? Wouldn't they just move their money over a place that would hide it?
Society should be structured so that billionaires cannot exist.
Wealth should be redistributed so that a hand full of people aren't worth more than everyone else.
Profit sharing should be law in all businesses, so that trillion dollar companies are paying all their employees (and their supply chain) enough to make a very comfortable living.
No single individual should ever be allowed to have so much wealth that they can control governments. The fact that we do points to a massive problem in our society's structure.
There are 101 ways that we can fix this problem, and it's not going to happen until we actually get serious about fixing this problem.
And by we, I mean the 99.9% of us who are struggling to get by because a handful of people "need" to have every single dollar in existence.
There is nothing stopping your millionaire ass from donating that money to the government. Always good to pretend you're being prevented from doing that though.
Donations from one person aren't going to do much good. At best, it'll provide a bit of short term relief. The system that enables billionaires to exist is still in place, which means they'll just suck up anything that this one person donates, leaving us with one less caring person capable of enacting further change and amoral corporations becoming more powerful.
We need to change the system so that everyone contributes. It makes little sense for any single person to contribute when no one else does because you gain much less than what you put in, but if everyone contributes, then you get the opposite scenario where everyone gains more than what they put in. That's why taxes exist in the first place.
I made up a pork chop recipe: garlic chops seasoned with salt, pepper, allspice, and paprika, sauteed in butter. Sauce made by adding sour cream and heavy cream to pan drippings, adding back the chops, and finishing in the oven for five minutes.
Positions 15 to 7 #Australia probably fears the invasion of #Antarctic penguins #Poles: well known rosacophobic morons #warcriminals #Italy, because you never know who will steal your Parmigiano Reggiano #SamsungRepublic because the empire needs a puppet in the region #France needs to protect Merlot from overconsumption #Ukraine are dancing to Uncle Sam's tune #Japan has a duty to protect Wagyu Kobe #Saudis are just throwing money as crumbs to the US war industry
Always the military budget, especially at USA was the system of plundering the taxpayers. It belongs to the circle of moving money from the state to private sector. This is another one reason why Russia products 5 times more with so tiny budget, the industry belongs to the state.
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Arguments over Canada’s national symbols, from a new flag in the 1960s to new passports two years ago, reveal how deeply some Canadians are attached to them and how they can shape nationalism.
LOL. The local young Democrats are having a potluck at someone's house. Unfortunately, none of them are manly enough to own a BBQ, so it's going to be mostly desserts and pasta salads.
What was billed as a decisive NATO summit in The Hague has turned out to be little more than a diplomatic pageant, carefully orchestrated to please one
There comes a time when you know you did pretty good but it's starting to go downhill, and you want to leave on a higher note instead of overstaying and leaving on a downswing. I get the feeling XBOX is on a steep downswing. I think he's doing the smart thing.
Except when they found out space Israel was shooting down live pilots and they left them to get bombed to smitherenes. That episode reminds me a ton of the recent Iran drama.
. What a meme gimmick. Thank you for reading my blog post.
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