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@desperatelyseekingdennis
the fact that this ONCE IN A LIFETIME opportunity isnāt being taken is the stuff of nightmares!!!!!
You know those technologies all have their own major drawbacks that canāt be magically solved by throwing money at them, right?
"Oil can literally never be cheaper, so this is a great opportunity to stop using oil"
It's who we are
England: has a 34.4% average income tax
Denmark: has a 55.0% average income tax
Canada: has a 29.75% average income tax
US: has a 14.2% average income tax
Denmark, specifically, takes more than HALF of what someone makes in a year. Each country giving money is using the taxes it's collected from its citizens to pay, essentially giving back a fraction of what they've taken and calling themselves charitable and helpful in a crisis. Governments shouldn't be taking the money in the first place.
14.2%?????? LMAO. Have you not worked since 2016 or something? In America itās 24%. In England itās 20% if you make below 45k, in Canada itās 15% if you make below 50k and only 20% taken from any additional 50k that you make. Our working class pays MORE in taxes in America than most workers in England and Canada would (their āaverageā rates are from tax rates increasing according to income) and we see jack shit for it. Where the fuck is my tax money going? Where is 24% of my paycheck going every week? I donāt know about you, but Iād prefer if the money Iām ALREADY PAYING went to healthcare and benefits for myself and other workers, not to Israel and corporation bailouts.
Even if my numbers are wrong, you're helping make my point that the government shouldn't be taking any of our money.
Itās funny how Cele found the average tax rate for the US, but couldnāt for England.
They only disproved your claim about the US average, but theyāre acting smug like they disproved everything.
In addition to the one time check, the US has also increased unemployment benefits by $600 per week. For many people, this means they're making more than they were when employed.
Haha!
*Notices germanys increasingly strong hold on the EU, dictatorial tendencies, anti american feelings and rising fascism*
ā¦.. hahaā¦. weāre so fucked
Iām impressed, I wasnāt sure Germans were capable of making jokes.
After all, humor is no laughing matter to them.
Its all good. As Americans, we can take a joke.
Germany on the other handā¦. They cant even figure out the right beach to spend the day on.
Everyone else:āHey, German what did your grand father do during the war?ā
*awkward silence enters the room*
Considering every American in the notes brings up the war when being joked about, no, you cannot in fact, take a joke.
Germans: *make a joke* Americans: āYOU FUCKIN NAZI SCUM GET BAS TO GASSING JEWS YOU HITLER WORSHIPPERā Case, proof and point: This post Fucking Americans.
American here reminding my fellow countrymen that everyone who was actually involved with the Nazi party in WWII is either dead or approaching death, and I know yāall werenāt even alive for the damn war because the only people who were are too old to know how to use a computer.
Can we stop calling all Germans Nazis? Itās been like 80 years. Seriously itās like if other countries were still calling us slave owners. Iām not saying we should forget about the Holocaust, just like we shouldnāt forget any tragedy in our planetās history, but how can we expect Germany to move forward if we keep acting like weāre still actually in the 1940s.
The Holocaust should be remembered as āA lot of innocent people suffered and lost their lives, letās make sure this doesnāt happen againā not āLook at how horrible Germany is!! Theyāre just waiting to strike again!ā Because yes, the Holocaust was terrible, but Germany isnāt the only country thatās done terrible things.
Also Iām pretty sure we have more Nazis here in the States at this point than Germany does. Soā¦your move, guys.
According to the likes of the SPLC/ADL the US has about roughly 10,000 white nationalists.
So basically, theres about as many MS-13 members in the US as Nazis.
The US has more than 4X the population of Germany and while Germany banned the swastika, Nazis still very much exist there
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/world/europe/germany-neo-nazi-protests-chemnitz.html
A rampage in the eastern city now stands as a high-water mark in the outpouring of anti-immigrant hatred that has swelled in Germany.
I donāt remember referencing WWII in my counter-bantz
@amarretto-cowboy, can you see even an oblique, implied reference?
It's weird that there's apparently all sorts of Americans "frothing at the mouth" in the replies, but this dude decided to reply to the two guys clearly making a joke.
Maybe it's a cultural thing. To all the Europeans reading this: if you jokingly insult an American, they're probably going to jokingly insult you back. That doesn't mean we "can't take a joke." That's *how* we take a joke.
Also, pro tip: if you want people to stop mocking you for spending the better part of fifty years failing to take over the world, stop being ashamed of your history. Jokes only work if they get a reaction. Usually that reaction is laughter, but anger works just as well.
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Iirc there was also some guy who tried to derail a train and send it crashing through a hospital to āsend a messageā
Actually, that was a train engineer who derailed a train to try and crash it into the USNS Mercy, a hospital ship that was docked in LA at the time, I believe. The dude seemed to believe that SOMETHING shady was going on on there, though he couldnāt say anything specific.
Or maybe itās because FAILED terrorist attacks and murders donāt make the news because they FAILED or WERE STOPPED and thatās not as āexcitingā as our News Media overlords want for the sake of ratings.
After the last 4 years and you people think the media would ever even dream of covering up a neo nazi terror attack?
The media that called an indian man a nazi for standing inna gazebo and talking about free speech?
The media that to this very day still refuses to report charlottesville and the cause of the car crash correctly?
The media that called a teenager a nazi for standing still with a nervous smile as some asshole banged a drum in his face?
That media?
Lefties wanna be oppressed so bad.
The same media that ignores and downplays terrorist attacks by antifa, and was busy demonizing Trump, as usual, when this went down.
Always be suspicious of foiled terrorist attacks. The FBI has a history of convincing people to become terrorists so they can swoop in and foil the attack they basically orchestrated.
Also the train guy was named Eduardo Moreno, so I'm not sure it belongs in a post about white supremecy.
As someone who ran into the glue at 23rd st while trying to commute home during the protest I can tell you that:
1) there was a sign encouraging you not to swipe or get glue on your card and that
2) the emergency exit door was open so you could either walk onto the platform or hop the turnstile to still access the train
The protesters left you with a choice: become a fare evader (supporting the protest) or leave. But they didn't stop access to the subway as a utility.
I see a lot of outrage in the comments about inconveniencing people on their commute home but consider whose commute under "normal" circumstances -- under police surveillance -- are inconvenienced by police.
Are you upset because you're not someone who usually has to think about if you'll be singled out for doing the same thing as everyone else?
Did the protests make you experience the thing that, oh, they were protesting against?
Hey, then they worked.
And if you don't like it, well, the next subway stop is 5 blocks away. How convenient for you that this impediment was a one day, one stop friction in your life and not a constant threat.
And before anyone complains about how the protest impacted disability accessibility, 23rd st doesn't have an elevator or other accessibility options. Let's start with critiquing the institutional access first, shall we?
Can someone please explain this to me? because all I got out of this was, Protesters vandalized things, causing less money going to fund transit, causing transit prices to rise or causing transit to stop existing, potentially making transit unavailable long-term to people who depend on it, without inconveniencing anyone with a car of their own, meaning this disproportionately fucks over the poor.
Basically what happened is that the Manhattan Transit Authority raised the price of a train ticket by 2.75$. Which doesn't sound like much, but now a large percentage of poor New Yorkers can't afford to get to their jobs, and started jumping the turnstiles.
Now you're right, subways cost money to run, and the fares are there for a reason. But what people are really protesting here is what the MTA did in response to the fare jumpers.
They hired cops to literally just...stand around and watch the stiles, costing the city MORE money than if they just reversed the fare hike. New Yorkers are furious because there's clearly money to pay for these extra cops, but apparently not for maintaining the trains.
Tl;Dr The MTA basically said "we don't have enough money to run the trains so we are increasing the price" meaning thousands of people were faced with either hopping the fare or losing their job, but when people started jumping the stiles they apparently the MTA had enough money to hire a small army of cops.
And some of the context here is that the real reason the subway fares have been rising is because NYC, like many cities, has been slowly shifting more and more of the burden of operating expenses from everyone (including the wealthy) onto the backs of the poor alone. So for example, the developers and businesses involved with Madison Square Garden havenāt paid property taxes in almost 40 years, although the tax abatement was only supposed to be for 10 years. Thatās $555 million which should have helped to pay for infrastructure -- but some of the people involved are big donors to the governor, so they get to keep freeloading. And so that he looks like heās ādoing something,ā Cuomo has now hired 500 more cops, at a price tag of $249 million, to catch fare evaders... who cost the city only $200 million. Heās happily collecting his chunk of cheese, but the poor are paying more and getting criminalized for struggling, and meanwhile the subways are literally on fire.
So this isnāt really about how much it costs to pay for public transportation. Itās about who pays, and whether that fare is fair.
Goddamn. That's the government y'all voted for?
apparently
This $2.75 fare increase they throw around up there is a lie. The total fare is $2.75 for a single ride, and that did not change. The 7 day pass went up a dollar (32->33) and the 30 day pass went up $5 (122->127). They did get rid of a 5% bonus if you preloaded your card, which technically dropped the cost of a single pass by about 15Ā¢, the 7-day pass by $1.60, and the 30 day pass by $6.10
So per day, the fair increase is about 37Ā¢.
Prior to this last increase, it went from $2 in 2010 to $2.25 in 2013, then $2.50 in 2015. In 2015, the 7-day pass was $31 and the 30-day was $116.50. So from 2015, including the 5% bonus, the daily price increase has been 51Ā¢.
They can protest if they want, but let's not pretend transit costs have suddenly just ballooned. They aren't protesting that the prices are too high. They're protesting that the prices exist at all.
Ha ha look at all these far right Nazis and their totally unfounded believe that the government is going to far with this lockdown shit! Hahahaha!ļæ¼
If...youre in the middle of nowhere, like āa remote campsiteā, then you arent really in range to spread any viruses. Thatās not really different than staying home.
Provided that no one else is around, I dont see a problem. Especially in Tasmania? I dont know much about it, but it cant have that high of a population in the first place.
And if hundreds of others also go to those āremote campsitesā?
Such as normally occurs during the Easter long weekend....
Not that anywhere in Tasmania is really remote.
As for the rest of Australia. One of the big problems has been keeping people away from remote areas, especially Aboriginal communities.
This isn't a story about hundreds of people at a remote campsite.
Steve Irwin would be so proud!
Is Chandler the bird?
I had no idea Serval was Russian.
Wait a second.
Tiananman Square (1989, colorized)
The lengths government will go to in order to limit your freedom is astounding
Boy sure would be a shame if somebody invented brooms.
Tiananmen Square protesters slaughtered by Chinese communists in 1989.
April 15 is soon upon us. Never forget.
China reports no deaths
todayās the day
Look at those proud Chinese citizens guarding lost bikes. They've been at it so long they've fallen asleep.
It's enough to make Winnie The Pooh cry, if Supreme Leader were capable of such things.
Disney strategically and on purpose avoids casting Chinese people in roles that are even vaguely questionable because China constitutes 14% of their global market. Thatās the reason the only Chinese dude in Doctor Strangeās monastery was the comic relief, and why the Mandarin in Iron Man 3 was [redacted spoilers]. Whatever their planning to do with this remake, it wonāt be 100% disney standard of moral approval, so they wonāt cast Chinese people in those roles.
Orā¦voice actors dont have to match the race or ethnicity of the people they are playing. Thatās why itās called voice acting.
Samurai Jack, a japanese characrer was played by phil lamarr, a black man. He actually frequently voices outside of his race.
Yzma, an incan character was played by Eartha Kitt, a black woman.
Jake Long, a chinese character, was voiced by Dante Basco, a filipino man.
Tara Strong even voices males
Voice acting is acting. There are no rules about only playing characters within your group. And I think we all know if there was, you would only hold that standard for white actors.
It says live action though?
That said, China is a huge market for western movies and video games so I donāt know what that person up there is smoking. Itās why a lot of major movies act like theyāre providing LGBT representation but only do so by giving a throw-away line thatās easy to edit out for the Chinese market. Itās also why Tracer and Soldier 76 arenāt gay over there either. So yeah, thatās dumb as fuck lmao.
Korean actor playing a chinese dad. No one cared.
Black actor playing a role that was originally white. No one cared.
Apparently another korean actor playing a white or Japanese character. No one is demanding this movie be stopped.
Live action or cartoon, people only seem to care about certain race actors losing out on job opportunities when the actor taking the job is white. Otherwise there is typically silence and indifference.
Itās called acting for a reason.
Unless the character is a characature of a race or culture, there isnt anything wrong with someone acting outside of their race or ethnicity.
I mean sure but the difference is that the characters in Mulan being Chinese is kinda like. Actually important to the story? Mulan would have been a completely different story had it been set in say, Europe or something. In cases where race is inconsequential to the story, sure go ahead and change it but with stories like Mulan where it isnāt, its important to actually get it at least sort of right.
The character they are pretending to be being Chinese is important to the story. The actorās ethnicity doesnt matter as long as they are acting as a member of that ethnicity.
Phil Lamarr is black. He practiced a Japanese voice and played a Japanese character.
Fresh off the boat dad (i dont know his name and dont care enough to look it up, but heās up there) being Chinese is important to the story. But the actor not being Chinese doesnt change anything. He studies the culture and possibly the accent and acts from there.
And letās not forget the Fullmetal Alchemist live action movie, which despite having bilingual european actors falling over themselves to play those parts, was played basically completely by a Japanese cast. Same with Black Butler and Shingeki no Kyojin (where asian characters being rare was very specific to the story). No one had a problem with this or made the argument that asians were jncapable of playing europeans. No one insisted that they needed to hire bilingual europeans/white people.
Honestly if they hired a korean or Japanese actor, Americans likely wouldnt have noticed or cared. The Last Airbender had an Indian play Zuko and the vast majority of anger was almost exclusively over the white actiors. Americans likely wouldnt have argued that they should have gotten a chinese actor (in the same way they said nothing for memoirs of a geisha). Until they treat other races the same, it is a double standard.
āā¦ Mulan being Chinese is kinda like. Actually important to the story? ā
In the animated film she was played by a Koreanā¦.
But I suppose weāre meant to ignore that this is all in response to a satire account.
ā Thatās the reason the only Chinese dude in Doctor Strangeās monastery was the comic relief ā¦.ā
The actual controversy was over The Ancient one being āCelticā, and female.
That they should have been Tibetan gave them a rather fun double bind. Make them Tibetan, and theyāll offend the Chinese and get banned from that market, if they have it played by a Chinese person to keep the Chinese happy theyāll offend anyone with an above room temperature IQ.
I thought they were leaving Li Shang out, anyway.Ā You know.Ā So people could focus on Mulanās FEMALE POWER without all that need for an actual MENTOR or someone to TRAIN her.Ā Because she was a natural born warrior, as all women are, because we give birth orā¦ whatever bullshit Disney wanted to voice, I dunno, I just know Li Shangās role was cut.
So as far as Iām concerned, this is a step in the right direction.
Lack of mentorship and training would certainly explain her archery technique.
Or her nose cut off. Looking at you, Katniss "Voldemort" Everdeen.
A West Bend farm says it was told to start dumping tens of thousands of gallons of milk per day because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the first case of coronavirus confirmed in Wisconsin, the impacts could extend further than just health.
This is capitalism's vast irrationality and inhumanity in action. Markets and The Economyā¢ matter more to capitalism than the concrete distribution of resources according to tangible human need.
Resources exist in abundance -- give them to people. Housing sits empty -- give it to people. The rules of the feast table should apply to our economic system -- no one gets seconds until everyone has gotten a plate.
We stand at a crossroads in these chaotic times: socialism or barbarism! The ruling class repeatedly chooses the latter. We need to organize and choose the former!
more govt. got it.
The government is making it illegal for people to have jobs you fucking cretins this os directly anti-capitalist you buffoons, you imbeciles
Friendly reminder that during the great depression, FDR's government mass-purchased livestock and then slaughtered and buried them all, despite the starving population. This is a problem with government, not markets.
Ah yes government quotas and price control regulations.
Classic "Unfettered Capitalism".
At this point I really don't know if these people are just that blinded by ideology, or if they know perfectly well what they're saying is garbage, but are willfully mendacious anyway.
It's important to remember donating the milk would also be expensive. It has to be pasteurized and whatever else the government requires, plus packaged and transported. Many of these farmers probably can't afford to do all that considering their income has been destroyed.
if you ever feel bad about your body remember that Wonder Woman has cellulite too
Whoever is writing this is doing Godās work
Literally one of the best things I have ever read.Ā
Iām writing about Wondy right now and I adore this.
Iām so glad that I was able to write a Wonder Woman story for Sensation Comics a while ago. Huge thanks to DC editor Kristy Quinn for believing in me, and to Neil Googe and Len O'Grady for their magnificent art.
I love the implication that male celebrities arenāt drooled over, and itās wrong to ask celebrities who make a point of being feminist about their experiences as women.
Also, Iām pretty sure thereās ladies - and dudes - who want to be dommeād by male celebrities as well. This also seems like an odd plot element to take, considering early WW was regularly used as a vehicle for her creatorās bondage fantasies. As aĀ āsubā. She was always getting tied up.
Also, I gotta wonder why such a feminist character would be supporting Islam, whichā¦isnāt. I guess Muslims are higher up the Progressive Stack.
This is terrible.
I'm mostly amazed at the artwork. Those faces are just awful.
But as for the writing:
Seal befriends woman sitting on the beach - Video
This will always be my favorite gifset.
Arenāt I adoooorable?
How to woo a lady
Thatās not just a seal, thatās a BABY ELEPHANT SEAL
That sea puppy is going to be this big one day:
The guy she tells you not to worry about
exactly what youād think sheād looked like
Good luck with that sweetie thatās a cop. Notice the retention holster, belt keepers, baton etc... try and grab that gun you are legally getting your teeth caved in and then going to jail.
I am a bad person, my first thought wasĀ āoh itād be funny to see her try.ā
Even if the dude was a civ, Dollar Store Brand Edna Mode should mind her own fucking business.
.....do not.....shame my girl.....Edna Mode.....like that......by comparing the two...
I grew up in a developed country with strict gun control. I often saw people with guns in line at Wendyās. Cops and security guards.
Oddly enough, I didnāt feel any less safe. I just wondered what gun they were using.
I doubt this Internet Tough Gal could disarm me of a coffee cup if I was blindfolded, facing the other way, and only allowed to use my feet.
Is the problem America has that we let that lady in?
people, for years and years: if thereās a zombie outbreak, go to the local Costco and use it as a fortress since it has both supplies and cement walls
the now proven truth: bro, they wonāt even have toilet paper by then, go hide with the hicks in the woods who know how to skin a deer and make whiskey from scratch like a smart person
Or just cremate your dead so that you wonāt have zombies in the first place.Ā
Or stay away from batsā¦..
Just stay at home and wait for the cops/public to shoot them.
Why would cops be shooting bats?
Conservatives from the 60s: I canāt watch Star Trek, I donāt want to watch an asian man or a black woman in a professional role on my TV! Damn liberals! I canāt watch a show that promotes integration!
Conservatives in 2017: I canāt watch Star Trek, I donāt want to watch an asian woman captain or a black lead actress on my TV! Damn sjws! I canāt watch a show that promotes racial diversity!
If your Star Trek isnāt offending conservatives, it isnāt doing it right.
I donāt remember a singleĀ āconservativeā complaining about Georgiou. Some people - not necessarily conservatives - complained about Burnham being portrayed as a big deal for being a black female lead. Even though weāve had two separate versions of Uhura. There was more complaining from fans about the new look Klingons.
But if you want to base a franchise on who youāre pissing off instead of actually trying to change things for the better, go right ahead and make spite-based media.
I also remember people saying Disco had the first Asian Captain, because Captain Sulu doesn't exist. And the first female captain because Captain Janeway doesn't exist.
People were upset about the amnesia, not the characters.
