• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Which is why usually there was laws to prevent them from doing whatever they wanted but that’s out the window.

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      2 months ago

      Law only exists to control those lower in the hierarchy than the ones who hold ruling authority over its enforcement and interpretation.

    • axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe
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      2 months ago

      Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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      That’s a fantasy. What we could do is stop voting the party that does things like remove healthcare coverage from 17 million people so it can give more tax cuts to billionaires.

      But we insist on saying both sides are the “same” instead.

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    Circulate this on right-wing sites and social media, not Lemmy.

    We need more conservatives and liberals realizing that they’re in a class war, not a race war.

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      2 months ago

      Lemmy is still full of conservatives and liberals. Just not as inundated as other places. This meme still serves its purpose being posted here.

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    Not a great example to compare yourself to. He was actually the lying, asshole, bad guy the whole time.

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      Yeah, but he killed a Nazi and a rich golfing asshole. And he got to die too, so like, win win win. Three less assholes in the world, minimum.

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      He was a villain in that he was a threat to his ex-wife and child, but his position on society up until that’s revealed is spot on.

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    I used to kind of be against tax evasion, after passage of the big bunch of bullshit bill I’m philosophically on the side of small time federal tax evaders. Nobody should be funding this government and its massive hand jibber program for the rich. The federal tax code has completely become a way to redistribute money upwards.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      I have literally seen that happen for many roads recently “repaired” by the poorer county to the south of mine. They don’t seal them or repave them; they drop a bunch of loose gravel into the potholes which just gets thrown out after a few hours of vehicles driving over it and widens the potholes.

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        It was a quote from Falling Down (the movie in the post) but that fucking sucks :(

        Looks like you’re not alone!

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      Never lived in South Carolina? It shows. Road functions. Barely. Then the afternoon rainstorm happens. Then the road fails. Giant pothole, sinkhole, 36 inch tree fell, it’s two feet under water, road no longer exists because it was washed out, bridge suddenly missing. Happens all the time.

      I used to think Hampton Roads / Tidewater was bad with its water depth markers on the edge of roads to let you know if you were about to drive your tail pipe or be completely submerged. But then I moved to Lesser Carolina. Whole new level of difficulty.

      Went to a convention for the weekend. Getting back took four times as long as we had to consult every available live resource to see what roads were open and still existed. Because hurricanes are a thing that happens here.

      So, in summary, fuck yes. Roads fall apart in two days.

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          I know the movie. My friends used to joke that I would try to recreate it in real life. But I felt that I needed to demonstrate exactly how the roads fail in two days.

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    Taxation becoming automated and controlled by our place of employment is exactly why it is paramount that workers own our places of employment even more so than in the past.

    If we own our places of employment, we can collectively refuse to continue funding this fascist regime and utilize those funds for our own local, grass-roots initiatives.

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      Just want to say that employers don’t actually control your withholdings. By law, you can submit a new W-4 to change your withholdings at any time. In fact, it’s often built-in to HR software to make it even easier to do.

      Of course, you still have to contend with the IRS come tax time if you underpay through the year.

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            I’m what way is it not? We pay tax money to the government. That’s the game. A good government spends it on things that benefit their citizens. They are the players. These arseholes are cheating and spending it on themselves and their cronies, and ways to terrorise their enemies. The game is the same but the people playing it aren’t.

            But thanks to everyone for all your insults and downvotes. It’s just like being on Reddit.

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              We are upset because of exactly what you are talking about about: the leader PLAYING A DIFFERENT GAME THAN WHAT WAS AGREED TO. The game you described is what should be played, but instead they play “how many poors can we get to eat each other today?”

              People are being rude because you sound like every self confident prick in right wing circles who smuggly says “yet you live in society?” any time someone suggests improving anything.