scoobdog

OMFG

Where to start with this utter bullshit…. First off, I’m genuinely glad you can publicly be your true self. Let’s not gloss over how difficult it is to be openly out - just because you have good friends who accept you doesn’t mean you and your wife aren’t targeted. That you can share it with us is itself an act of bravery that too often gets dismissed. Second, this whole thing about classrooms using LGBTQIA+ identity as a program to sexualize children is absurd. I can’t even begin to fathom how you misrepresent gender identity in that context: it’s illogical at a fundamental level with obvious roots in the very same rigid gender roles that ostensibly mandate removing “sexuality” from education. Part of it is that the stigma of debunked psychology is difficult overcome, but of greater importance is that there is a vested interest by heterosexuals to connect identity to reproductive function. Conservatives have long tied primary education to familial programming, either by being excessively repulsed by the concept of training a girl to be sexual or by complaining about the decline in morality curriculum. For them, being “a good Christian” necessarily incorporates sexuality in identity because intimacy serves a biological function. Separating identity from biology is one product of a concerted effort to combat racist ideology, particularly eugenics. It’s no coincidence that multiple genocidal events through the first part of the twentieth century preceded a rise of homophobia that use the exact same terminology. Gays, like Blacks and Jews, are framed as biologically degenerate. They’re described as having neurological disorders or having animalistic traits / tendencies. WWII is the first real time reporting of atrocities that could debunk eugenics by directly connecting the pseudo science with propoganda and its tragic consequences. As the connection between race and biology dissolved so did other tenuous connections, and a similar backlash ensued. Naturally, you don’t have to be intelligent to know what you feel. I wouldn’t expect you to understand why gender identity is unique, but the fact it is can’t have been lost on you given your friends are non plussed by your gender. By your logic, people walking up to you must assume that being a lesbian means craving foreign objects shoved in your vagina for intimacy: a thoroughly offensive thought. Why you wouldn’t connect the dots and assume that teaching intimate interpersonal connections doesn’t necessitate explaining copulation is beyond me.

Kind of reminds me of that joke that cost Gibert Godfried his AFLAC job.

To be clear: "fair share" of taxes means what you can safely afford to contribute. The term gets thrown around a lot by people who support flat taxes and by people who want to cut welfare programs, always with the intent of changing the metric to "the hard earned fruits of my labor" from "what I need to survive in my current situation."

Damn.

It probably is. Hopefully, this next generation lives longer.

But it likely won't ever hit anyone that isn't making over $100 million. Stock options aren't a thing in the middle class bracket, and people in the lower upperclass are more likely to convert profits from their ventures into a fixed asset like property - basically something that is more useful for things like credit and financial stability.

I hears a rumor.... that Ghosty plans on shoving Elon musk into a tire, fucking him in the ass, and rolling him down the hill like he's Johnny Knoxville.

Which is probably why most people would never see this proposed tax. A middle class worker isn't going to accept a stock option bonus after maybe the IPO because it doesn't give them the needed liquidity. Making it for people who make over $100 mil is less about clawing back tax money and more about stopping the ultra rich from using that phony money as a leverage.

But, it's not just drug use with the occasional head injury. Drug use is notoriously capable of disguising other psychological conditions, so you can't help but worry that CTE is a bigger factor in these deaths even though pro wrestling is supposed to be choreographed enough to reduce that danger.

I will say this... I totally see her boss changing her bonus to stock options so he can keep her happy while he bleeds the company dry and sends it to bankruptcy.

They're missing out on that super friendly call from Netanyahu.

Bro... you can't fuck a murderer to death when he's in prison. What's even the point?

That is so hot.

How many arab hostages is Israel rescuing again?

It's alarming, to say the least.

That isn't what she's implementing. Granted, it's debatable whether you will survive on whatever retirement package you have, but she won't be targeting 401ks, government bonds or any other retirement account that, in fact, constitutes a realized gain. Your idea of wealth building is way different than someone who's on the cover of Fortune 500. What she's targeting is stock options - you know, the thing that Elon Musk used to artificially inflate his net worth. He and his ilk use those options to hide their wealth from taxes by not cashing them in while using them as to bolster their wealth and influence. Musk used his artificially inflated wealth in the form of Tesla stock options to purchase Twitter, and we all know how spectacularly bad that was. He likely would not have done that if he was forced to pay taxes on stock options he would not ordinarily have had to pay taxes on until he sold them.

Trump plans to get rid of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit. Guess that means you're losing that $100 bonus anyway.

When was the last time your company "made a profit" though? Honestly, your paltry bonus has no effect on the country's tax intake, especially when you get one maybe once in five years. Your boss, who unsurprisingly is the one that determines whether you made a profit or whether all of that extra money coming in is going to undefined overhead, gets a bonus every year because his bonuses aren't performance based. You can bet that your boss is very very happy that you support Trump, though,

How are people struggling more?

No, it isn’t. You mean Trump? Hitler.

Way to prove his point.

That’s because Hitler was charming and liked animals. Otherwise, Trump = Hitler.

Yes, because this country is somehow so much worse than it was when Biden took office.

Will you murder the murderer with sex?