Kieran

the symphony is cool | he/him

[Joel @JTayF1]

I think the world collectively needs more Europeans racing in NASCAR just to ragebait Americans

My respect for K-Mag has gone through the ceiling

[Mike from PA @Mike_from_PA]

To my DSA brethren, we must run as many people for as many offices as we can.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

establishment democrats and republicans weren’t fearful he’d fail and ruin nyc. they were worried he’d succeed and represent the threat of a good alternative

[💀DeathMetalViking💀 @DeathMetalV]

Man if someone showed a photo of Obama speaking to some evil wizard alien looking mother fuckers you mouth breathers would have blown every vessel in your brain.

[John Q. Septa @dropkick_murray]

“The worst ppl on earth: the ppl that gave me homework”

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

The US is long overdue for revolution. That it has not yet taken place is a testament both to the enduring power of the US ruling class and to the resulting docility, servility and conformism of its people. The US is truly the most propagandized nation on earth.

[Ed Goofup, Jr. @theschwasound]

Why do I have to make money when it's all fake

[larold @AwfulRacing]

The European mind is starting to comprehend

[Meh @hillme89]

Getting a RAM overspray on my shitty WRX and terrorizing the Snohomish county sheriff’s department with my RCS the size of a tennis ball

[Joe Calvello @the_vello]

Mayor Mamdani in Runners World today.

[kuss @dontkuss]

This is just explicitly “First they came for the communists” btw

[Natalie Morrill @natalie_morrill]

I love the lady with her pig. She has the air of a delightful cartoon character.

[carl 🥦 @NightlifeMingus]

imagine you’re struggling to merge off the 110 to take the 6th street exit while high above, Joyce Carol Oates observes you with the cold, Olympian gaze of a god

[nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR]

They’re about to do the political equivalent of the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony and Trump is going to spend the entire trip convinced that it’s because they’re scared of him.

[Steven Godofsky @sgodofsk]

Okay so she
1. Got on a cruise ship to St. Helena
2. Took the weekly 5hr flight to Johannesburg
3. Took a daylong connecting flight back to San Francisco
4. Flew to ~8hrs to Tahiti, then 1hr to Mangareva, from SF
5. Took a 2 day boat ride to Pitcairn

WTF forget the virus thing

[breanna 🇺🇸🇩🇪 @txgermanbre]

“Billionaires already pay more taxes than you ever will” is one of the most financially illiterate arguments on this app because it confuses nominal dollars with effective burden.

A billionaire paying $500M in taxes sounds enormous until you remember they gained $20B in asset value while doing it. The relevant metric is percentage, not raw dollars. A teacher paying 22% of a $60k salary is carrying a heavier proportional burden than someone paying 8% while their wealth compounds tax-deferred through stock appreciation.

And this “their money was already taxed” line is mostly fiction at billionaire scale.

Middle-class wealth is usually income that got taxed, then saved. Billionaire wealth is overwhelmingly unrealized appreciation. Tesla stock going vertical did not mean Elon “earned” $100B in taxable salary. The shares appreciated. Under current law, that appreciation can sit untaxed for decades, get borrowed against for liquidity, then receive stepped-up basis treatment at death that can erase the embedded gains entirely.

That is not “double taxation.” In many cases it is functionally zero taxation on the primary mechanism of wealth accumulation.

People also weirdly talk about billionaires like they emerged from the forest carrying capitalism on their backs with no public inputs involved.

Their companies rely on:
public roads
public courts
public contract enforcement
public utilities
public universities
public research grants
public internet infrastructure
public IP law
public military-protected trade routes
public education systems producing labor

The modern corporation is not built in isolation. It operates inside an enormous state-supported framework.

And no, asking whether someone should contribute proportionally to maintaining the system that enabled $100B fortunes is not “greed.” That framing is emotional theater designed to avoid discussing the actual structure of tax law.

The real debate is simple:
Should labor income be taxed continuously while massive asset appreciation can compound largely untouched for generations?

That’s the argument. Everything else is distraction.

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

Stanning Dua Lipa has really never disappointed me lmaoooo

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

The Christian conservative mind cannot fathom someone being simultaneously religious and not hateful

[✝️🇺🇸Chet Ozmun🇨🇳☭ @OzmunC]

White leftist here. I translated a tv show about how China's poorest village escaped poverty & put it on YouTube. Then I visited the village myself to see their progress. I was the first Westerner they'd ever met. But they knew about my work because they'd watched my YT channel with a VPN. Then my visit got featured at a local CPC conference. TL;DR this person is full of shit