Independent That Fights for Progress

Anti-authoritarian #politics junkie w/unrepentant streak of demanding sourced #facts over opinions; conspiracy sites are shitty sources. ELON MUSK SUCKS

[Independent That Fights for Progress @IndependentThat]

@politvidchannel Yes, the top 1% get a little bit poorer so the bottom 50% can live somewhat better lives. It’s called a “social safety net” and it’s what created and sustained the middle-class in this country for 50 years.
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@DivinaJewels @OctoberTheKing An excuse to… dance?
Telling any woman what her “business” is or is not strikes me as pretty old school bro – not in the good way.
Either you trust her or you don’t. If you can’t trust her, time to move on.

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@ksorbs If you think appearing in such incredible films as "Bernie the Dolphin" & "Bernie the Dolphin 2" is appropriate for a "legitimate" actor, you can't comment about movies.

Also… erm… aren't you right-wingers pro-#FreeSpeech? No, you're all fucking #hypocrites with no brains.

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@ToddHagopian 2/ In fact, in order to SOLVE our jank-ass tax system, people should want an EXPANDED IRS that does your taxes FOR you (since they already have the info.), sends you their determination, and if you disagree then you can dispute it. Else you just take your refund or pay your bill.

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@ToddHagopian Trying to "solve" taxation by eliminating the IRS is stupid. The IRS is about enforcing the tax code – that is, taxes already owed. Letting people cheat on their taxes does nothing but cost YOU money.
As long as we have the jank-ass tax system we do, people should want an IRS. 1/

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@CalltoActivism Nothing. Not worth my time. They're irredeemable as far as I'm concerned. As long as I can walk away and ignore them, there's no problem.

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@JoForLiberty Solution: properly fund the IRS so they have the legal manpower to actually go after *real* tax cheaters.
Oh, right, you folks cheer tax avoidance – even though that is literally money being ripped out of your own pocket.
Taxation isn't theft; underpayment of taxes actually is.

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.@elonmusk: DON'T go eat a pile of shit, you fucking charlatan.
You claim to support "#FreeSpeech," yet when I use a common, innocuous phrase related to firing a projectile into one's own foot I'm *immediately* banned from #Twitter – while Nazis & hate-mongers tweet away.
Lame 🖕

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This is a modern-day #conservative:
They have zero policy initiatives to improve the United States, they are ready to believe any rando #conspiracytheory some #SocialMedia idiot farts out of their face hole as long as it's anti-#MSM — and they can't even speak English properly.

[Lil Jimmy🏴‍☠️ @liljimmy65]

@akaBarni “for which he specifically asked”?? 🤣🤣 what a tool.

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@jimhumphreys4 @akaBarni Your own demonstrated inability to properly grasp the English language is supposed to reflect poorly on others and/or hurt their feelings? 😂 Shit, you didn't even quote the tweet properly. Third-graders can do that.
Don't shoot yourself in the foot any harder, nimrod.

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@ConscienceIsIt Dude looks like an X-Files character.

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I was trying to remember why I felt, like, dumb every time they displayed the #stlblues logo on the screen… apparently @Blooshier's #PFP caught my attention during a prior conversation (as a #RedWings fan from the 90s-00s). 🥰
Let's go #SeaKraken! 😉 #NHL
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Another big win for the #SeaKraken at home as they take down the #STLBlues 5-2 tonight! Impressive victory all around!

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@kleinekatzu @checkmatestate I meant that I was using colloquial rhetoric to refer to “Israel” and “Palestine” and gave that article as an example of how that’s done, because you decided to pick on a nonsense part of my statement instead of addressing the actual point. Which you’re still doing.

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@SFZaphod @checkmatestate Technically speaking, yes. Practically, realistically speaking? Absolutely not. There are too many competing interests with individual power in this country.
Maybe if we made the accumulation of wealth such that anyone can become a “billionaire” impossible, then it could happen.

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@kleinekatzu @checkmatestate Israel, as in the nation-state with which we conduct arms deals. So no, none of the distinctions you mention matter in rhetorical, high-level, foreign policy examples.
https://t.co/PZPIjWVD8T

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@SFZaphod @checkmatestate That logic is so ridiculous I honestly feel a little bad that’s how you see the world.
An example that comes to recent memory: https://t.co/bxggpvBzWg
83%. Yet it took 30 years to get it done: https://t.co/EdCGdmaKC2
And it’s FAR from an Amendment. That could never happen.

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@MNateShyamalan Elon Musk stans and fanbois are hilarious. They’ll literally go out of their way to send a tweet just to fellate him.

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@checkmatestate Congrats, daddy-o! 🎉
Knowing that many generations of children will rebel against their parents’ politics, I welcome this little future, progressive bundle of joy. 😉🙃👶
💜💙
🚬 < closest thing they have to a “cigar” emoji

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@SFZaphod @checkmatestate I don’t understand what you’re saying. Policies supported by 75% of citizens shouldn’t be seriously considered?

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@checkmatestate I don't see where the dilemma exists. All arms sales are fine as long as they're not cross-border transactions? I'm sure no one will ever access any weapons they shouldn't…
Either "muhfreedom" (#guns++) or your own logic (not arming the world) wins here.
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@MattBGilliland @checkmatestate …similarly, if you're selling weapons to a nation that is not defenseless & is going to attack other people (e.g., Israel), you're complicit in their attacks.
If you cared about saving lives, you'd give Palestinians the same missile defense system(s) as Israel — to save lives.