Sam

Irish. Inbetweener.Concerned about increasing polarisation and puritanism.We're all getting older & 'll be dead soon, maybe we should cut each other some slack

[Sam @sbow82]

"Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, & its greatest failures by not talking..........All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."

[No Left Turn @brianjimmyjoe]

"But when people stop talking, really bad stuff starts. When marriages stop talking, divorce happens. When civilizations stop talking, civil war ensues. When you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier if you want to commit violence against that group. What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option."
- Charlie Kirk

[Sam @sbow82]

@SunCrow94 @elonmusk Be fearful when others are greedy

[Sam @sbow82]

@MykeVw @danobrien20 What kind of odd tax policy are you suggesting? That gov impose different tax rates based on some kind of hardship assessment? Anyway, most peoole working on building sites get paid a lot more than people working in coffee shops.

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

Ireland has the fifth highest marginal income tax rate in the OECD for workers on the average wage. Almost half of every extra euro earned after just €44,000 is taken by the by the government. These confiscatory rates, which were introduced 18 years ago to address a fiscal crisis that is long over, crush the incentive to work more.

Ireland is the red bar in the OECD chart below.

https://t.co/TfCn9maAOL

[Sam @sbow82]

@Daithiunjabbed @Caoimhinn55 @maxbiaggi30 But they were elected by the people?

[Sam @sbow82]

@compostfetish @RichardDawkins What's the dumbest thing?

[Sam @sbow82]

@MimCotton @declanganley That's not correct. The 40% rate doesn't kick in until over about 42k

[Sam @sbow82]

@declanganley @StephanieS9999 The multinational companies contribute greatly to the tax take directly, & indirectly by employing people on excellent salaries. They aren't the problem. The problem is out of control public spending increases. No party in the Dail has cutting taxes as a top priority

[Sam @sbow82]

@OdohertyI64991 But that was actually an intelligent retort. I think he's funnier when he doesn't mean to be.

[Sam @sbow82]

@Tw1tterHandel @mickdem1 @Aidan_Regan He's right here. Average means mean

[Francis Fleming @FrncsFlmng]

Aldous Huxley discusses his book "Brave New World," warning of overpopulation, centralized power, and technologies like propaganda and drugs that threaten freedom, drawing parallels to emerging dictatorships and democratic vulnerabilities.

[Sam @sbow82]

@55MTQ_ @ellamaulding Look at the body language. Richard Dawkins was repulsed by him.

[Sam @sbow82]

@PhilburtDesanex @MrAndyNgo @ArmandDoma How good or bad he was is irrelevant. In civilised societies the government doesn't kill people for no good reason.

[Sam @sbow82]

@DavidSc36517670 @john_mcguirk That's the problem. He used this firearm expertise instead of focusing on just getting out of the way. He was to the side of the car when he shot her.

[Sam @sbow82]

@DavidSc36517670 @john_mcguirk He was safely to side of the car when he shot her (look where shot went through the glass). He could have jumped much further away but he was focused on getting his gun out and shooting her.

[John McGuirk @john_mcguirk]

The idea - regardless of her politics - that men in the uniform of a government would fire three shots into a car killing an unarmed mother of three who was patently and obviously no threat to their lives, is one thing.

The idea that the political right - the people supposed to be opposed fundamentally to the tyrannical use of government power to coerce citizens - would cheer it is quite another. If you're sitting on the internet spending your time defending people who've deprived three kids of their mum because you're arguing her steering wheel wasn't in precisely the right place to avoid her murder, then I think you're lost.

The state should never have the power to kill like that without impunity. Grant it, and they'll use it on you next.

[Sam @sbow82]

@AveryDaye Seems to me he was already safely out of the way when he shot her. He could have jumped further away but he was focused on getting his gun out.

[Sam @sbow82]

@RachelMoiselle @LukeWarmLiberal @turnercartoons I don't even get it. What happened 60,000 years ago?

[Sam @sbow82]

@PaulaGhete Eh yeah, but i answered it. Sorry 😅

[Sam @sbow82]

@PaulaGhete You need a see result/not a woman option

[Christiaan Hetzner 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦 @christiaanhtznr]

Don’t see how anyone can look at this chart and not arrive at the conclusion $TSLA is just a glorified meme stock whose valuation floats on a pillow of speculative hot air.