NauticalNoodle

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

according to a usa today article he occasionally came in to use his office as a quiet place to study philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I see that you too have heard the prophecy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

i didn't say tax evasion isn't the real problem. i said that the meme is blaming the wrong people.

it's GE's (And politicians) fault that GE is evading taxes, not the IRS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Same. This has been the story of my entire adult life and It's so frustrating in it's own right.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

If other peoples' tax evasion is your big concern then you hate the wrong people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Immigrants being on the right is also implicit. Almost nobody is gonna migrate to some place new because things like recent changes are going well for them in their country of origin. They instead leave and migrate to some place that is relatively more stable & predictable. Host countries don't like it when people migrate over and start agitating for change. As a result conservatism is built into the process.

–Consider the Cuban Communist. The Cubans that are happy with Communism have no major incentive to leave and resettle in Miami. The Cuban Capitalists OTOH flee to Miami where they espouse the evils of Communism while advocating for our government to continue the trade embargo, ensuring they can spread their pain to their fellow Cubans back in Cuba. It's the same exact story with Falun Gong

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

To add to what you said I'd also argue it comes with finding financial success while lacking the awareness of how lucky one had to be to achieve that kind of success in life.

-- although lately I have also seen a lot of people that lack the imagination to consider a reality different from what's presented to them by the status quo.

On second thought, that latter point just sounds a lot like Indoctrination.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

A lot of conservatives are liberals. The two terms are not mutually exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I love it!

The schadenfreude, I mean.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As Proton made evident, VPNs can be legally compelled to start keeping logs on specific accounts as the result of a court order. So if you're gonna do something incriminating, then I guess you should create a new account each time.

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