AdamSmith

Site fuck-up.

To repeat my specific point, there are plenty of areas where ‘progressive’ taxation on the very very rich — NOT the middle class — is something THEY, the rich, agree with. As advancing the rich’s OWN financial & material interests, by stabilizing society and thus making the middle class (who do most of the ‘purchasing’ that drives the economy) better able to do so. Your remark assigning ‘guilt’ to Gates, Buffett, et al. is, very frankly, beneath you. Your post is about onerous over-taxation of the middle class. Which the recent Republican tax ‘cuts’ that greatly benefited corporations will do. They will exact an enormous financial toll on that very middle class when those tax cuts without any offsetting spending reductions drive interest rates through the roof. Which of course will even more greatly profit the rich while ruining the middle and lower classes. My post was about something else entirely, which I have enumerated here just now in this post. I hope you can see the difference.

‘Something for nothing?’ Please define. Obamacare was funded entirely by a 1.5% tax on the wealthiest 1.5% or thereabouts. Who said in the vast majority “yes!” Gates, Buffett, et al. ’We need a stable republic for our business & labor needs, and reliable affordable health care is the table on which all the rest of that stands.” Said they & their ilk.

Incredibly acute and powerful. Thank you beyond saying for posting.

Actually unjustified trash that sweeps Biden off the stage can’t come soon enough. Time enough for Warren or Bernie once in office to set things right. insofar as whatever our America has today it has become.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fHvk2zgUBpY

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lEV2OGm4vFA

Stanley Kubrick: Inspired by chess https://en.chessbase.com/post/stanley-kubrick-inspired-by-chess

And they get that the human condition is fundamentally comic, even when (sometimes especially when) it is tragic.

Good God. Actually over 40+ years.

Exactly. For my part, over 30+ years I have turned out to like all 4 genders about equally (the romances have been about 50/50 with cis men & women). So I favor the identifier queer for myself. But then the pro forma kickback from those of us who object to that word on entirely outmoded reasons. The Left can have its Jurassic tendencies fully as much as the Right. Both must be resisted, & publicly fought when necessary.

Funny how these local Gestapo tactics can so closely mirror current developments at the national level. And the possible ensuing consequences. Cockroaches just hate it when the lights get turned on. This could get verrry interesting.

New evidence shows how asteroid dust cloud may have sparked new life on Earth 470m years ago ...However, Schmitz’s research has also caused interest for another reason. As the world warms dangerously, some scientists have proposed spreading a veil of dust that would sit in space above the Earth and reflect sunlight away from our overheating planet. The idea is controversial because it could have many unpleasant side-effects, say critics. Now evidence shows such an experiment occurred naturally 470 million years ago. The result was a major change in our meteorology and the evolution of life here. “It is certainly worth bearing in my mind in coming years,” added Schmitz. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/12/asteroid-kicked-off-new-life-on-earth

Is this not entirely representative of discourse & life on ‘most’ ;) discussion forums? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=guZa7mQV1l0

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=llctqNJr2IU

I will get on there later today & reply. I have arranged my business life so that I have to log in to email just once a week — if even that. It is an open sewer of spam, and worse. Anybody I work with or wants me, I tell, TEXT me. After all, my public biz phone # is my personal cell. How much more transparent?

It is not there. No idea why. Phone me on that phone # you have from our emails. If I do not pick up, leave vm & I will reply aprompt. Even though neither of us has any hearing any more.

https://www.amazon.com/Gilligans-Professors-Behind-The-Scenes-Everything-Including/dp/0060969938?tag=bisafetynet2-20