@bonchieredstate@3YearLetterman "Claiming" and "if true" clearly mean unconfirmed. If you take this as true or as Mario saying it's true, you're an idiot
The Afroman Trial.
-Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons.
-Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up.
-No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman.
-Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras.
-Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives.
-During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat.
-The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation.
-Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit.
-Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them.
-One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife.
-As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE.
-The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman.
This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.
Whenever Paul Ehrlich comes up, this letter comes to mind.
I don’t like celebrating anyone’s death. But Ehrlich’s legacy should be remembered for what it is: apocalyptic environmental predictions that helped legitimize coercive sterilization and ruin countless lives. Horrific.
This is such hot garbage. The billionaires aren't cheating the system to pay no taxes, ProPublica is cheating at how they show the numbers.
When selling investments, you are only taxed on the gains. If you invested $1 million in a company a decade ago and sell it this year for $1 million (because the company sucked), you have a million in income but owe no taxes because there was no gains.
If you actually lose money, like selling it for $500k this year, you have loses. You might then sell a different investment, also $1 million, that grew to $1.5 million. The losses match the gains, so while you now have $2 million, you own no taxes.
Taxes hurt investment, so they certainly "manage" them. If you want to sell your million dollar investment that's now $1.5 million, you have to pay around 30% tax on that, so that when you roll it over into another investment, you are rolling over $1.35 million. It's thus better simply to leave your money in a poor investment and let it continue to grow rather than roll it over into a new investment.
It may not be even "good" or "bad". You want a balanced portfolio. You don't want to be waited too heavily on high tech like Apple. When one sector is too profitable, you want move some of those gains into other sectors.
So when you have a big loss, then that's an opportunity to sell your Apple shares.
By cherry picking 4 years when 4 billionaires paid no taxes, ProPublica gave the false impression they earned a lot of money and cheated at paying taxes. No, in the long run, you eventually pay all the taxes. All those billionaires have paid billions in taxes in other years, ones deliberately obscured by ProPublica.
For example, in 2021, Elon Musk paid $11 billion in taxes when he sold 16 million Tesla shares in order to fund his other efforts.
It's not Musk cheating the taxman, but ProPublica cheating their readers.
In Kentucky, supposedly “brain dead” TJ Hoover was moving around so much as he was taken for a cardiac catheterization (to see if his heart was good enough to put into someone else) that he had to be given a paralyzing drug.
But it wore off, and he was looking around on his way to the OR to donate his organs. His family was told these were “reflexes.”
A whistleblower said he was thrashing around and visibly crying. But when two doctors refused to perform his organ harvesting surgery, the Organ Procurement supervisor reportedly told staff to just find another doctor and carry on.
Thankfully, Hoover was saved, and went on to dance at his sister’s wedding.
Because brain death is a social construct and not death itself, I can tell you exactly how many brain dead patients are still alive: all of them.
https://t.co/mSZXtr3JRc
UNBELIEVABLE 🤯
Up 2 points with 0.1 seconds left Chicago State tries to take a timeout, which they don’t have, and commit the Technical foul
Stonehill got 2 free throws and made them both to force Overtime 😳