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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Reduced from 40 to 36 hours is in the right direction, but it's still a 5 day work week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you would prefer a socialist party candidate the most logical choice is to pick whatever Democratic/Republican candidate is most willing to enact voting method reform, e.g. ranked choice voting.

Because voters are incentivized to pick one of two main parties in the current method, third parties are essentially guaranteed never to get off the ground.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah and the senators who ratified women's right to vote were all elected by men but they still did the ethical thing.

At least Sanders seems to want to reduce billionaires' disproportionate influence on politics.

Maybe you're ok if Elon Musk's opinion on how much you should get taxed counts a billion times more than yours, but you really shouldn't be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It is ironic, but if this was the case we would probably just see the Republican party shift to be more moderate and collect more votes. Not a bad thing IMO. Cultivating extremism is bad for democracy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Upvoted for the honesty

[–] [email protected] 138 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably he's on a diet and his wife won't let him eat more than 1 order of meatballs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Also he tricked the ents into walking past Isengard so that they'd see how many trees Saruman whacked and take an ax to him instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Interesting. This kind of bill is for costs incurred as a result of the rally rather than for directly using the facilities, e.g. paying for an increased police presence to control protestors. Seems like candidates are not really obligated to pay for this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This article claims they pay a higher effective tax rate, not more in taxes. A citizen working the same position would pay even more in taxes since they would also have to pay income tax.

Maybe the headline should be that sales + other flat taxes are becoming an increasing burden for low income workers. This is the problem for the illegal immigrants in the study, and even more of a problem for citizens who earn the same amount.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

*You can only teleport out to where you teleported in from.

Does this mean you get dropped into outer space if you stay inside for more than checks notes ~4 minutes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Paladin: It works because I just feel really strongly about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)
 
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