I really enjoy your snarky tone, but can you explain how any consumption tax regardless of labeling are not regressive when poor people consume a lot more of their income than people with people with higher incomes? Sure you can mitigate this by only taxing x products or offering rebates to poor folk. But it just seems like it is inherent to the system.

It seems to me that progressive income taxes, direct taxes on profits of corporations, wealth taxes, and the like are much better targeted and don’t harm the poorest among us. But I’m from a “ridiculous country” so what do I know?

Sales taxes are regressive. The poorest people pay way more of their income to buy things at stores. Therefore they are getting taxed a lot more than someone who saves money because they have bigger incomes

I’ll answer it in terms of the people of Rojava fighting ISIS. They accepted American support even though they are against governments. They fought with air support against an evil totalitarian system and totally destroyed that system. Is the US a good actor? No. But if I was in the YPG I’d want that air support. And I’ve read many accounts of YPG and YPJ soldiers who state that.

I don’t know anything about Iranians because it is locked down there. But I assume the people fighting that government are making similar calculations.

It is so easy for a person living a comfortable western life to judge the people fighting these wars for freedom. I’m not going to sit in judgement because they weren’t pure enough and I greatly dislike those who do.

Easy for someone not making those decisions to say

Murdering the ayatollah’s cops isn’t a bad thing. Totalitarian regimes and the people who uphold those regimes are fair game imo. Fuck the us and isreal but if was fighting for freedom I’d take any help I could get.

Unbelievably evil. Fuck this man

And this is no where near anything close to equality

Yeah it is really bad all around to throw the most vulnerable to the wolves. Who would have thought these nazi fucks would suck at everything

I love how our health system has embraced eugenics wholeheartedly

Hell yeah. Lets torture some children because they aren’t their parents perfect little cishet angels.

Sure whatever you think.

Yeah super weird the way that a dude on a stage with a ton of photographers around him has a good photo taken of him. You never see badass photos taken at an nfl game or anything. This is real evidence of a conspiracy.

Fuck Gavin Newsom. The dude is scum. All the people blowing him are the worst

Just because they claim to represent all Jews doesn’t make it true? Like you know governments say all sorts of things that are aspirational right?

There are massive movements of Jews all around the world who are against this genocide and the state of Israel. Look up antizionism. Tons of rabbis have been arrested for “antisemitism” in Europe because they are against Israel. You are aligning yourself with the forces that are killing Palestinian children with your bullshit

Anyways, I’m done with responding to your bigotry with good faith. I hope you become better.

This, again, is antisemitism. Israel does not represent all Jews. It certainly doesn’t represent Jews who died or lost their painting in the holocaust.

This is like saying The Labour Bund, people who valiantly fought and killed Nazis in Warsaw but were also antizionists are responsible for the genocide of Palestinians. Fuck that.

Palestine should be free. But being antisemitic does nothing to help and actively harms it by alienating Jews that are pro Palestinian. It also lends credence to the bullshit that to be pro Palestine is to be antisemitic.

No one is free unless everyone is free.

This is antisemitism. Jewish people from the past, from before there was even an Israel, have nothing to do with Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians.

A Jew in Europe having their art stolen has literally nothing to do with Israel or Palestinians. This art should be returned to the heirs of the art seller.

Visiting Reddit with tor at their onion address allows access. Sometimes it is rate limited, but you can just cycle circuits until it works

No, he would never. Who would have thought

💔(that he made it to his eighties and destroyed our way of life)