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@vp2gether @milos_gis Coal.

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@VompsyFefbro @DrEmilyHarris @Sam_Dumitriu You could say gay and trans people weren't a thing before 30 years ago too, it's not much of an argument. I'm going by the actual self-reported data of what people enjoy, you can stick your head in the sand if that makes you feel good.

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@DrEmilyHarris @Sam_Dumitriu And she blocked me, of course....

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@DrEmilyHarris @Sam_Dumitriu Aella did a survey on this a while ago, something like 1/5 women liked hard choking and about half of women liked "light" choking. It's far more a female preference than a male one, going by survey results.

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@BloatMcQueen @MeghanEMurphy Women dress more modestly in women only situations. She's probably lying, unintentionally or otherwise

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@katie_campione

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@paul_d_stevens @Yanicktweeted That's quite surprising if I'm honest given how easily mmt followers are swayed without serious evidence.

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@IanLabour @iainmartin1 How much do the top 0.1% pay? Who are they? How many of them are there? How much would be raised by having high income tax on them?

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@WasOnceLoved A mortgage is indeed building maybe a few hundred quid of wealth each month, a pension the same. It's all very slow, and if you're being taxed at a marginal rate of sixty something percent you can't really do anything to improve that. Avg UK household is very poor.

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@tim_brannigan When the people who pay half the income tax don't think it's worth their time to work more, that's bad for everyone ;)

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@WasOnceLoved @Eldenofthering At best you maybe have 1k a month for saving. Want to earn a bit more and save more? Tough shit, marginal rate of around 2/3 from 100k-125k, unless you've got child care in which case it's over 100%.

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@WasOnceLoved @Eldenofthering You're paying about 35% tax on 100k, add in student loan, pension, and 100k jobs generally being in expensive places, and it typically doesn't leave a huge amount for saving. So then you can either choose to live like someone who earns less than half that and save, or not.

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@WasOnceLoved @Eldenofthering But I don't think that and never said it.

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@hoc9718 @realhansard @grok Let the people decide what they want, but make sure everyone has skin in the game. So you have to have a basic rate tax increase of maybe 8%, or drop tax free threshold to about 3k as other nations have.

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@WasOnceLoved @Eldenofthering I'm somewhere between the 1st and 100th.

It has no relevance to the discussion.

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@WasOnceLoved @Eldenofthering Why would I be?

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@hoc9718 @realhansard @grok US tax as percentage of GDP is about 26%. UK is about 34%. We do not have anything remotely like the US tax system. But we also don't have a French or Austrian tax system. A significant difference is that the bottom 80% in the UK pay very little tax.

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@WasOnceLoved @Eldenofthering Not enough.