Zaktor

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, stay. Occupy space. Drag your feet. Misinterpret instructions. Double and triple check them through slow back and forths. Just keep doing your real job until the idiots can get things in order through the bureaucracy to fire you. It'll probably be a while, if ever.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From the Washington Examiner no less. Let's see if this conservative opposition persists through the seating and confirmation votes. I'm not confident.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, people act like politics is governed by some strictly enforced rules that can never be violated. They can kind of just do whatever they want and the worst they'll get is a tsk tsk.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

There's also a definite undercurrent of being put-upon special people separate from the civilians who don't know what it's like to sacrifice for "freedom". It's not a good atmosphere to rely on when an autocrat, who is their legal commander in chief, and who their media propagandizes for, tells them to do something that they theoretically should refuse. There's so many avenues to just do it.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

If you make the exact same low content post a half hour after someone else, you're probably going to catch some downvotes.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You literally brought him up first though.

Them: The US is a fucking joke. Biden should be ashamed of himself

You: Yeah let’s focus on Biden….

Them: Yes, let’s. Or is he not president anymore? Who the fuck else should we blame

You: I don’t think Biden knows he’s president half the time. Trump isn’t gonna change anything though, so don’t get too excited. It’s up to someone else to stop it.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

I'm not really sure more people voting would have kept Trump out of power. We were already getting to some extremely dumb people in the undecided category, and those were the ones that made the smallest of efforts to participate in democracy.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

MTG was scooped for DNI by Tulsi Gabbard, which is significantly worse. Maybe MTG can head up NOAA so she can use the weather control devices to put the hurricanes and tornados in California rather than the red states with weather and geography conducive to their formation.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Anyone who's been on a military base should be very worried about that answer. It's Fox News 24/7, in both recreational and professional areas.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Orthodox Jews, while being more likely than the other major branches of Judaism to be conservative and support expansionist and oppressive Zionism, do not inherently hold that belief. There are sects of ultra-orthodox Jews that are hardline anti-Zionists. Don't make the mistake of conflating religious belief with support for Israel in general or Israel's genocide specifically.

Kushner and Ivanka probably do, but because they're just shitty people, not automatically because they're religious.

 

Harris only received five percent of Republican votes — less than the six percent Joe Biden won in 2020 when he beat Trump, as well as the seven percent won by Hillary Clinton in 2016 when she lost to him. While Harris won independents and moderates, she did so by smaller margins than Biden did in 2020.

Meanwhile, Harris lost households earning under $100,000, while Democratic turnout collapsed. Votes are still being counted, but Harris is on pace to underperform Biden’s 2020 totals by millions of votes.

 

The editors of Israel's oldest newspaper on Wednesday published an editorial decrying the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from northern Gaza amid a ferocious Israeli offensive there that's killed more than 1,000 people over the past three weeks.

Original paywalled editorial in Haaretz.

 

Vice President Kamala Harris proposed increasing the long-term capital gains tax rate to 28% for wealthy Americans during an economic speech in New Hampshire on Wednesday, breaking with the policy laid out by President Joe Biden in his 2025 budget by suggesting a lower rate.

The current long-term capital gains tax rate – 20%, plus an additional 3.8% tax on higher earners – is paid when an investment is sold, or gains are realized. The Biden budget proposes raising that rate to the top rate he wants to levy on ordinary income – 39.6% – for households with taxable income over $1 million. Harris, the people familiar with the matter say, believes 39.6% is too high.

While Harris still supports taxing the wealthiest individuals and corporations at higher rates – as Biden’s budget also calls for – she believes that a lower capital gains rate would incentivize investors to put more money into startups and small businesses. She has also proposed increasing the corporate tax rate to 28%, up from the current 21% rate set by Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

 

Harlan Crow (of the Clarence Thomas patronage scandals) donated the max individual donation ($3,300) to Cornel West's campaign, which invited obvious criticism.

Text of his response on Twitter:

As an independent candidate and a free Black man, I accept donations within the limits of no PACs or corporate interest groups that have strings attached. I am unbought and unbossed. Despite my deep political differences with brother Harlan Crow (who is an anti-Trump Republican), I’ve known him in a non-political setting for some years and I pray for his precious family. I find it hypocritical for those who highlight his $3300 donation to my campaign but can’t say a mumbling word about the PAC-driven billion dollars to support the genocidal attack in Gaza sponsored by their candidate! I’m fighting for Truth, Justice, and Love! Onward!

Frankly, the pleasant words make this look much worse than just saying "if some asshole wants to send me money, I'll keep it". Sounds like someone he wants to keep on the good side of, but y'know they're only political differences, not stuff that really matters.

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