jamespollard.bsky.social
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I just interpret the 10% as meaningless lip service he’ll turn is back on seconds later.
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I support this in general, but am still utterly confused as to what he’s talking about or how this would work. I wish he’d actually just say what money CA would withhold and how vs just making vague comments
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Don’t take my question the wrong way, I support withholding the funds, but what is he actually referring to? What tax money? Individuals and businesses pay it directly right? What funds can the state itself actually withhold?
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Red states, especially blue cities in red states are being hit too. The only difference is that our State police are complicit and partaking in the ICE raids.
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And make sure those fuckers can’t dial in and focus on LA because they need to feel the pressure everywhere.
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Again, I hope you're actually doing something vs lecturing others that are showing up.
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Given how strongly you apparently feel about the "proper" way to protest, I can only hope you are actually showing up at direct actions and not just pontificating online.
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Still horribly depressing that only 63% want due process or (more likely) even understand what due process means.
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It’s outrageous Dems aren’t demanding impeachment. Yes the GOP will defend him, but make them defend him publicly. Force them to go in history on the record.
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But if you do, don’t forget to share old UFW photos as your “proof” of “good” protestors, without bothering to actually look at the photo to see if they too were carrying the Mexican flag.
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But the photos he shared disprove his point. You can clearly see the Mexican flag in the image he shared.
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You can also clearly see Mexican flags in the photos he shared as “proof” of how “good” protestors would never carry foreign flags.
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I don’t think you’re a Nazi. I don’t think you’re fascist. It’s just frustrating to see well intentioned people like yourself lecturing protesters, especially if you’ve never organized direct actions or protests. I assure you that the folks organizing in LA have heard of the UFW
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I’d kindly suggest reconsidering sharing these images to argue people shouldn’t cary foreign flags at protests. You can easily see people carrying the Mexican flag in this image. And people in the current protests are carrying the US flag. I’m not sure what you think these images prove.
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And equating racism to people disagreeing with him 😳
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Section 174 has been brutal outside of big tech as well for startups and midsized companies. I think it’s now technically possible for tax bills to greatly exceed profits. So you’d get the lower tax rate in the long run but need to weather out a brutal 5 to 15 year storm.
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For staters the capitalization isn’t wild
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It looked like an overcooked TV dinner
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BG doesn’t owe race baiting trolls her attention.
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I’d also add that maybe people stay home (if possible) even if it is just a cold. I don’t want their cold either
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This is so utterly heartbreaking and infuriating.
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I’m baffled by this one more than usual. If they didn’t pay for the performance, the performance would be a campaign contribution, right? How the heck can it be a campaign contribution if the campaign is the one paying for it? Thats… not what contribution means 🤷🏻♂️
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Or the other person will take their co-workers’ LLM output, put it in an LLM and ask it to summarize it. I often wonder how much time and energy is wasted doing this when they could have just given their co-worker the bullet points to begin with.
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I don’t read this as seeding blame. I think it’s far more troubling. He’s seeding the idea that SCOTUS is illegitimate and an “enemy of the people.”
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I’m equally disappointed at how often I see and hear of folks using LLMs in business writing as well. They see the writing as just a deliverable and not an opportunity to think through a problem.
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We don’t need to be conspiratorial like QAnon. Is it really so hard to believe that the police could be bad at their jobs AND he’s guilty
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Showing the tax customers are charged is controversial? 🤷🏻♂️🫠
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Maybe it’s okay if I just support the ones that I can, even if it means I don’t get to read (or support) others that are doing equally meaningful work. And hopefully others continue to support them
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I get this sentiment. There’s a lot a great indie journalists I’d love to support and read, but I keep coming back to the idea that I think I’m just too used to subscription models like streaming services that give me access to everything by underpaying the people that actually made the content.
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I could be wrong, but I’d assume one time purchase were a small, marginal revenue source for the papers. This works at scale if you’re a giant news organization, but I’m not sure it’d be worth the effort for smaller collectives and indie journalists
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And don't forget to now claim it was all part of some ingenious, secret plan
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It’s imported from Fiji.
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Respectfully, it’s a bad idea that will only hurt people in need. The people that this would actually help can’t afford to “stock up.” And hoarding will only further jack up prices and harm more people that can’t afford basic essentials.
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Thank you. I worry folks are just starting to assume Trump’s perversions of these terms even in their counter arguments.
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Is it because I’m tired that I can’t even understand what trade deficit divided by imports is supposed to show? Even if you presume their terrible “surplus is from the cheating” logic I don’t understand why anyone would divide them or how it relates to tariffs