Having leftist politics is being right from the offset and liberals catching up 5 years after they condescended and chastised you to high heavens for it. And never getting any credit or contrition.
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The Western media erased the racist violence of Tel Aviv Maccabi hooligans in Amsterdam.
Those thugs naturally felt emboldened, that they could get away with anything.
Here are the consequences in Paris.
A bit of evolutionary biology for a Saturday morning*: all toads are frogs but not all frogs are toads. And the distinction between toads and frogs is just that toads tend to be terrestrial, with dry skin, whereas frogs tend to be more aquatic, with wet skin. 1/6
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@pandamodiums@ebullienteddie No argument from me there - means testing benefits is a terrible idea, it’s just something they do to try and dodge headlines about higher tax rates.
@ebullienteddie Yeah, but I think it’s a poor framing for the very correct argument of “our system punishes parents and graduates who aren’t from well-off backgrounds” to focus on the effects on the well-off.
@Hardymatt0@ebullienteddie Though ofc 'who do you tax to spend?' is a bit of a fallacy as most of the spending we need is in health/education/infrastructure that pays for itself in growth/reduced costs. The function of taxing billionaires *should* be to limit power accumulation (e.g. Elon Musk...).
@Hardymatt0@ebullienteddie Well, we were talking personal tax rates. In *general*, I'd tax multinationals - it's clear they have a *lot* of spare money being spent unproductively (e.g. ~$250bn global spending on GenAI in 2024).