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Writing the technological history of how America really got to space, while trying to keep my sanity in this fascist takeover of what used to be called the United States of America. Officially a Twitter refugee.
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I get what you're saying, but I'm not here to solve everything and merely and quite simply just said that I personally would happily strip them.
That's it.
Anything beyond that is just thinking out loud and certainly not to be taken with such a heavy hand.
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Among the top 20 states receiving the greatest net flow of funds, 14 were red states, while 13 of the bottom 20 are blue states.
Leading the top 20 include WV, MS, KY & AL.
Leading the bottom 20 CA, WA, MA & NY, all critical hubs of business, investment, and innovation.
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In $$ terms, federal contributions to blue states amounted to $11.6T compared to $10.3T across red states—or $71,500 and $67,000 per capital.
While federal receipts from blue states amounted to $10.7T compared to $7.3T from red states—or $58,500 and $45,000 per capita.
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That 7% differential equates to a more than $1 trillion transfer payment from blue states to red states, amounting to $4,300 per capita.
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Drag it out in court as long as possible. Make it as hard to collect as possible.
Given that Trump & his thugs explicitly have it in for the IRS, their ability to actually go after wide-scale tax protests would be pretty limited, esp once the IRS is gutted.
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People could opt not to pay taxes. States could try to promise some sort of amnesty or protection. It wouldn’t be legally valid, but neither is most of what Trump is trying to do.
But to do it as a tax protest would be more legally valid.
Refuse to pay federal taxes till the govt does X....
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The Rationalist community is a cult & all the stories about it are like those of Bohemian Grove.
Yudkowsky is the major figure behind it. He's the one who created LessWrong.
Countless major articles on all the sexual abuse etc involved.
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Yarvin isn't the only thing behind the curtain.
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I'm a Californian, and yes we are the ones that pay. But if they start stripping my state, I'm all for stripping them.
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👍 💙
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They're all brutal and must make examples of citizens to instill fear & maintain compliance.
America will be damn fu*king lucky if Trump and his thugs are only in power for 4 years.
Once you cede your power to authoritarians and oligarchs they don't give it back.
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Pure evil.
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Bingo! I'm telling you, he's the one that eyes should be on.
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Stephen Miller and Bannon etc are just passengers in this Night of the Long Threads ride.
The media should be focused on the ones really driving it.
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No matter what, we're screwed, and no doubt even worse with Vance.
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There is a very complicated polyamorous game of tag happening in the Trump administration. The details are a bit sketchy. But things will work themselves out. Katie may give birth to a friend for little X soon, rumored to be given the name K-hole