Follower of Jesus Christ, husband, father, American and whiskey aficionado. In that order. *Following Jesus does not make me perfect, it’s admitting I’m not.
My house is paid off.
No mortgage. No bank. Nothing owed.
Took I and my wife 22 years and every extra dollar we ever had.
Except property taxes are $11,000 a year now.
If we don’t pay, armed men show up and take a house we already own outright.
We also paid 32% in income tax this year.
Plus sales tax on everything we bought.
Plus gas tax every time we filled up.
We paid off the house.
We still don’t own the house.
We just stopped paying the bank and started paying everyone else instead.
TAXATION IS THEFT
Property taxes shouldn’t exist.
To all the "transphobes," a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman. What that might look like is different for every woman.
Women don't owe you femininity. Stop gatekeeping womanhood and policing women's bodies.
Of course these two should be allowed in the league. What do you mean they should have to take drugs. Why? What is "fairness"? Sports are unfair already. Michael Phelps has an unfair advantage but he isn't banned. Tall women are playing in the WNBA, so why can't they?
Are you saying women are weak and fragile and need to be protected?
Are you saying you get to decide what someone's identity is?
There are only two of them. What percentage of all athletes do they comprise? Like, less than 0.0003%.
OMG, this is such a total non issue that you are blowing up into a culture war. Just two people, TWO! Out of how many thousands.
You're directing all this hate towards destroying the lives of two people who just want to play sport instead of worrying about the economy and world hunger.
Young men, don’t let anyone tell you that you aren’t a good capitalist because you rightfully complain about how hard it is to buy a home, pay your mounting bills, buy your family groceries, or keep a roof over your head.
It didn’t always used to be this way, the deck really is stacked against you, and turning you into debt cattle, tax slave, and lifelong renter were the goals of very wealthy and powerful people since they first assigned you a number. Because that’s what you are to them.
Your right to complain about it is written in your sweat and blood. And no. You are not experiencing “capitalism.” You are experiencing exploitation they call “capitalism.”
You are competing for a starter home against global capital with access to money you could never borrow at rates you could never get. You are paying taxes into a system that subsidizes corporations large enough to purchase the politicians who write the rules governing those corporations. You are watching losses get socialized while profits remain private, industries consolidate until “competition” means choosing which logo gets to fleece you, and financial institutions turn necessities like housing, medicine, education, and even food into investment vehicles to be squeezed for maximum yield.
That is not a free market. That is a market with a thumb and an entire federal bureaucracy sitting on the scale.
Real Capitalism requires meaningful competition, private property, enforceable contracts, and honest money. When the powerful can purchase exemptions, subsidies, bailouts, regulatory moats, preferential financing, cheap foreign labor, and political influence, while you get a mortgage at seven percent and a lecture about skipping Starbucks, somebody has rigged the %*#* game.
You work. You produce. You build. You fix. You haul. You create things people need. and then you watch an ever-growing procession of governments, banks, monopolies, middlemen, institutional investors, and politically connected parasites reach into your pocket to take it.
There is nothing anti-capitalist about objecting to that. That is a rigged table where the house writes the rules, deals the cards, owns the casino, lends you the money to play, and then calls you “anti-capitalist” and “unpatriotic” when you notice.
Heck, I’ll even complain *with* you. It’ll be fun. But we’ll have to do it while we work because a single day off might cause cascading financial ruin and then they’ll call us lazy.
@Miss_Misery513@berniemoreno So no regulation is better? Wtf are you even saying.
And the banks facilitated Epstein knowingly with what he was into.. Your post is complete bullshit.
@JLee2028@berniemoreno Politics, the banks are trying to leverage the politicians they pay for because they wanna make sure you don’t get any interest on your money because then you’d put it on an exchange instead of in a bank
There is absolutely nothing to “iron out.” An agreement was reached weeks ago and ALL parties to that agreement will be expected to keep their commitments. Period.
The eleven months of negotiations between Senate Republicans and Democrats have officially ended and every Senator will have the opportunity to cast their vote. I am extraordinarily confident that ALL 53 Senate Republicans will vote in favor of ending debate (cloture) on the consideration of this extremely important piece of legislation (motion to proceed) at 2:15 pm on Tuesday, September 15, 2026!
The Senate Democrats will have a choice to make: hand this industry to China or embrace American exceptionalism and continue our nation’s dominance of innovation. It’s an easy choice if you love America! 🇺🇸
This is quite literally by definition racist. She is literally discriminating against white people based off the color of their skin.
Notice how she capitalized the A in Asian, the B in Black and made sure to have the W in white lowercase.
Not a good look @FrancescaHongWI
Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:
1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality)
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality)
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost)
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)
The last one is how government spending works.
@ThaliWreck Well, because you missed the point of why he’s doing this and it’s not to mock anyone, except for the people that act like biological women and trans. Women are the same thing , because we all know they’re not.
So they’re forcing their hand to publicly live their supposed values
Democrats, via their lunatic positions, are destroying the United States. Republicans, via their apathy to stop these positions, are destroying the United States. If real American heroes do not step up and save the republic, it will be lost forever. Many people will not connect the dots until it is way too late.
@brookelynn74@kgallella@adamfrancisco_@subzerohedge21m You have to be high, people have eyes. Create a league specifically for these individuals or shut up. They don’t belong in sports with biological women. And I’ll never shut up about it. Again, you’re not compassionate you’re just an ideologue that uses fake compassion as a cudgel
@brookelynn74@HalfHammerRises@adamfrancisco_@subzerohedge21m Just because you rewrite history, doesn’t mean people forget what actually happened. 🤷🏻♂️
And people will still believe they’re lying eyes no matter how many times you try to tell them otherwise.
@brookelynn74@kgallella@adamfrancisco_@subzerohedge21m Yeah, but even men that are on hormones still have the advantages of developing as a man early in their lives. It’s not a level playing field. It’s not fair and it puts women in danger. You’re not being compassionate, you’re being an ignorant asshole.