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Comment #46767254
> Those who disrespect my countries law do not deserve to benefit from my great country. Why? All laws or only some? > Well they clearly aren't trying hard enough if they are in th…
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Comment #46759640
>This is systematically not true as citizens can not be legally deported. And yet. >If someone is not a citizen and are here illegally they should be removed, no matter their inten…
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Comment #45842243
not being motivated enough to vote against != support in terms of claiming a popular mandate. If I just don't care who wins, you can't say I support either candidate. At most you c…
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Comment #45832298
Eh. You can’t claim the non voters all implicitly support him though since they didn’t know the outcome ahead of time. I’ll agree they didn’t sufficiently oppose him ahead of the 2…
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Comment #45831042
49.5% of 65% of eligible voters voted for him.. hardly a majority any way you slice it, either of voters or of the broad population.
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Comment #44978136
And to add: the new features are take or leave it. you're right, who cares about new features on _twitter_, it was ossified already. Becoming the worst place on earth is a far weig…
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Comment #44976760
I dont know; they may well have been on the ads and moderation side. And they did add the hangouts/voice calls stuff, but that may have been an acquisition, I'm not sure.
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Comment #44974531
On the other hand while yes it's still running, twitter is mostly not releasing new features, and has completely devolved into the worst place on the internet. Not to mention most …
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Comment #44946622
Isn’t it to sell home currency denominated debt…?
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Comment #43708675
I am certain you can find more than one quote of his relating to Project 2025. In any event this also doesn't disagree with what I said more broadly, which is, he was not forthrigh…
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Comment #43706672
Obviously
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Comment #43706338
That’s exactly right and what I said. The guy above said Trump is doing what he said he would. He isn’t.
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Comment #43706080
Actually Trump repeatedly said he didn't know about project 2025. He's so scattered in his campaigning that it's possible to pretty much justify any action as "what he said he woul…
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Comment #43070780
Filing is a challenge, and the rules governing what most people pay are simple. You’re just being obtuse. We can stop now.
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Comment #43065492
That people don’t know how to do it and thus many pay companies to do it for them. Most of these people’s taxes are extremely simple from a tax code perspective.
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Comment #43065487
Everyone pays $1 and $1 only is not simple enough? Can’t please some people.
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Comment #43064903
I like how the dude you’re replying to is parallelizing being wrong about this in every reply thread.
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Comment #43064893
Thought experiment: taxes for everyone are $1 but you have to climb to the top of an icy glacier to place a single dollar bill in a collection box. Is it easy to file these taxes?
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Comment #43064884
The people with complicated taxes are rich. Most people have dead simple taxes tax-code wise. W2, standard deduction, dependents, maybe some interest deductions. You’re just being …
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Comment #43062337
I’m not and these tweets aren’t relevant to what I wrote.
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Comment #43056094
They are because they have an interest in keeping tax filing difficult and unapproachable, to keep public animus against taxes at its maximum. Coincidentally this is 100% in alignm…
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Comment #42994681
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Comment #42994659
Emotional posts like yours don’t really further the discussion of whether it’s good practice for US leaders to wear an Apple Watch.
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Comment #42935261
I agree but that’s like saying if my grandma had wheels she’d be a wheelbarrow innit? BTC is not set up to ever be a reasonable currency. Agree digital dollars is where we’re heade…
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Comment #42934922
Is that a fact? Any substance you'd care to offer or just leaving that assertion hanging?