Did you know the Mayor of NY City makes more money than:
1. Zohran Mamdani $258,750
2. Marco Rubio (Secretary of State) $250,600
3. Pete Hegseth (Secretary of Defense) $250,600
4. Scott Bessent (Secretary of the Treasury)
$250,600
5. J.D. Vance (Vice President) $235,000
Here’s the kicker. Mamdani’s self appointed committee is asking for an 18.2% raise for Mamdani and his elected officials.
His new salary would be $305,800.
Even a democratic socialist is a deep down capitalist. The guy loves giving himself a raise with tax payers money.
@simdog226@MathewMFord@RShcklfrd@wil_da_beast630 Who is pretending to be "tough"? I've been in combat, and I assure you there is nothing glamorous about it. That being said, I also believe that the right of every citizen in this country to be able to defend themselves from both others and abuses of government power is absolute
@MathewMFord@simdog226@RShcklfrd@wil_da_beast630 You're clearly either misled or arguing in bad faith so go ahead and believe whatever. Hopefully you never find yourself ina situation where your natural right to defend yourself is tested because you will likely be cold before the cops show up with their incompetent response.
@MathewMFord@simdog226@RShcklfrd@wil_da_beast630 Your statistics are completely distorted, so where even to begin. I'm sure you're quoting misleading CDC data that includes 18 and 19 y/o adults as children. Then I'm sure you're including gang violence in the "mass shooting" numbers, which the FBI explicitly removes when
@MathewMFord@simdog226@RShcklfrd@wil_da_beast630 they prepare the annual ACTIVE SHOOTER report, which is what most people think of when they hear "mass shooting" because of the propaganda and misinformation propagated by gun control organizations and the media that seeks to conflate the terms active shooter and mass shooter.
@jcone777@wil_da_beast630@philthatremains The FBI removes these crimes from their annual active shooter report. The problem is that most people have been misled to automatically assume that a "mass shooting" means an "active shooter" incident.
@simdog226@RShcklfrd@MathewMFord@wil_da_beast630 Also, it's unsurpising that you would resort to emotional manipulation when your argument fails. It's a typical fallback for gun control advocates. As I said, we don't base public policy on events that are less likely than getting struck by lightning.
@simdog226@RShcklfrd@MathewMFord@wil_da_beast630 Your logic is ridiculous. Given your way of thinking, we should never let anyone go out in public. Go lock yourself in your pod and eat your bugs like a good little bootlicker now.
@simdog226@RShcklfrd@MathewMFord@wil_da_beast630 killed. A child is more likely to be struck by lightning in a given year than killed in a school shooting. We don't base public policy on events that have a lower probability than someone being struck by lightning 🤡🤡🤡https://t.co/GpAV2rt49G
@simdog226@RShcklfrd@MathewMFord@wil_da_beast630 These incidents are exceedingly rare. There was 1 school shooting in 2023 and 4 in 2024. In 2024 there were 8 deaths and 23 wounded in school shootings. There are approximately 68 million students in US. That's 0.000000455% chance of being a casualty and 0.000000117% of being
@MathewMFord@wil_da_beast630 deaths as baseline. Even with more liberal definitions, still an average of ~22 incidents per year per FBI data. In 2024, 12 of 24 occurred in open spaces. So, where do the rest of the hundreds of mass shootings per year that media claims come from? https://t.co/GslOcTVsMy
@MathewMFord@wil_da_beast630 The media claims hundreds of these incidents occur each year. However, Lott's organization reports "Since 1998, there have been between one and eight of these mass public shootings a year" using the FBI's data. Keep in mind that this is using 4 or more
https://t.co/1Vy9l8JTeE
@simdog226@RShcklfrd@MathewMFord@wil_da_beast630 The worst school massacre in history was done with dynamite: Bath, MI, 1927: 44 killed 38 children. Nice, France, 2016 86 killed, 458 wounded with a box truck. 9-11, 2996 killed, weapon: box cutters. 2nd amendment protects natural right of self-defense, also against gov't tyranny
@WBTVSteveO@WEschenbach@SenJeffMerkley You are correct sir. Sweden is a prime example. 32% municipal tax for up to 67,400 in income then an additional 20% national tax for above that. They also have the 25% value-added tax (VAT) in addition. Wonder if the middle class is ready to pay 30-50+% of income in taxes?
@pete89247@BattlementLK His ideas ultimately failed, as well. His Soviet-style economy was collapsing and Deng Xaioping instituted the current gov't controlled market economy they currently have.