dept-of-dave.bsky.social
Neither funny nor fun. Honestly not sure why you’d follow me. Anybody upset about pronouns in a bio deserves to be upset (he/him).
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What does the word “only” mean to you?
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“What am I missing?”
Every single one of these makes note, in some cases implicitly, but in other explicitly as well, that the federal government HAS implemented wealth-based taxes in the past, prior to Trump.
(Property and Estate taxes are a form of wealth tax.)
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What kind of question is that?
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Posobiec has managed to post the most beta-male thing I’ve ever seen.
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He’s bringing this same energy.
(Undisputed GOAT of “divorced guy” vibes.)
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I purposefully brought my small child directly into his office.
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“The best way to get back at him is to have Johnson and Vance jailed, and then resign. He’ll miss you when you’re gone.”
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They are NEVER beating the “weird” allegations…
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Yeah, of course: so let’s point them at the guy who deliberately platforms neo-Nazis and pedophiles?
Great strategy. The best.
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Trump should just challenge him to a jiujutsu match.
Last guy who did that got Musk to fuck off and bother other people instead.
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I am certain there are deficit hawks who aren’t ALSO very public benefactors to neonazis and pedophiles.
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Sadly, all they can see is the $288M Musk spent on campaign funds in 2024.
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You continue to fail to understand the core reason I am sharing these with you.
econweb.umd.edu/~wallis/mypa...
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www.taxnotes.com/featured-ana...
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www.taxnotes.com/tax-history-...
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Okay, okay. You got my ass.
Geez…
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Before that actually, at least that’s what Trump promised on the campaign trail.
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I dunno, I think if she framed things my way, it would also be better praxis long term…
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Is Hawley suggesting that Trump himself is not anomalous?
That he’s just some ordinary fucking guy?
That he’s not any different than Joe Biden, or Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton?
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This is basically that “Banality of Evil” thing Arendt wrote about.
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Leavitt is essentially arguing that the Nuremberg Defense (“just following orders”) should not only be valid, but is also sort of arguing that it’s unnecessary, because it’s impossible to do anything illegal or improper so long as it supports her Glorious Leader.
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Thirdly, civil servants are public employees AND ALSO private citizens.
They’re allowed to have political opinions different from the president.
Leavitt is implicitly arguing that the only “valid” worldview is one completely uncritical of Donald Trump.
That’s wrong, and infuriatingly so.
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Secondly, I also DO NOT believe Leavitt for one second.
This is the kind of thing that needs a fact-check, but also won’t get one because in the firehose of bullshit she projects onto the public every day, it’s “relatively” minor.
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So, for example, it’s entirely possible nobody working in the CBO has made contributions to ANYONE in the past 20 years.
But Leavitt gets to imply otherwise without any substantive pushback because lying is easy and nuance is hard.
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First and foremost: there’s actually a very strong culture of ZERO political contributions in the civil service.
There are actually a LOT of rules about how civil servants are even permitted to make campaign contributions, which means a lot of them just don’t, at all.
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The absolute worst, most authoritarian people in this country are going to cheer for this.
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Man who spent 5 months adding to deficit offended that other people are adding to the deficit.
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President Joe Biden whipped for a bill that was characterized as a wish list for every Republican xenophobe.
Biden’s immigration policy was maybe 5% more humane than Trump’s was.
And that was ALWAYS true, despite what right-wing propagandists insisted, for years, unchallenged.
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Walsh wishes to be a demagogue.
Nothing about his politics over the past 8 years has done a single damn thing to dissuade me of that assessment.
The INSTANT Trump dies comfortably of old age, Walsh will be trying to rile up conservative fervor again.
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I think the implication was that it experienced planetary motion similar to what we think of as “normal” (ie, “Earth-like”).
So it could stay in its own star system, but be able to fire at distant star systems in arbitrary positions.
Mostly I think they hoped we didn’t think about it too hard.
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I don’t even dislike TFA on its own merits, really.
But man they were really hoping they could just sorta hand wave over a lot with that aspect of the plot.
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The Death Star poses the exact same issues that just sort of have to say “roll with it” but Starkiller Base goes to such a large scale with it that I think even middle school kids who don’t have any understanding of physics might think twice about it.
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I would argue that they don’t even obscure how it doesn’t make sense, but they DRAW ATTENTION to it.
We get a whole scene where Finn watches the destruction of a distant solar system from a different planet. In broad daylight.