I’m totally cool with rewarding people for making a bunch of money and giving it back to the people. Hell, make each prestige cooler. You find 100 billion in taxes? We’ll build you a little statue. You fund 1 trillion dollars in taxes? You get to be on a coin or some shit. Really put these greedy fucks incessant need for attention to work.

I’ll preface this by saying the 1%'s stock holdings are pretty much the last thing I’m worried about protecting. But it could be as simple as requiring your wealth to be under the limit when you file your taxes. Let’s say it’s a billion dollars (I would argue it should be much lower). If you end the year with 11 billion dollars in wealth, you owe the government 10 billion dollars. There are controls we can put in place to prevent stock manipulation, similar to the ones we have now. Just actually enforced.

I’d be fully supportive of a “maximum wealth” limit.

You haven’t been paying attention. Trump tried to implement this stuff last time and was stopped by people loyal to the Constitution. ALL of those people are gone. He is surrounded by people who WILL carry out his orders. Trump rarely learns, but he has absolutely learned a lesson when it comes to staffing.

This is true of libs in general as well

This is a ridiculous attempt to both sides. Give us an example. What compares to “we’re going to detain and deport millions of people”?

People grow tired of fighting with such high stakes so in the long run you just wear them out

This is true.

Sure, if Trump wins things will suck definitely but it’s not the end of the world. Ultimately biggest political parties serve various oligarchs so once Dems are inevitably back some years from now you’ll notice not much is changing for you personally.

This is where I vehemently disagree. Just because you’re not going to be one of the first ones they target doesn’t mean it’s no big deal. They’re talking about using our local police to round millions of people up and put them in camps, and you’re going to sit there and tell me it’s not the end of the world? Get the fuck out of here.

It’s okay to be tired. Fight anyway. That is what is required to maintain Democracy. Giving in to authoritarianism because it’s easier is a bitch move.

Surprised no one has posted “use a straw” yet. That’s definitely one of the more common ones . Weird as shit.

just picking gnat shit out of pepper

Thank you for this wonderful phrase that I will be using from now on.

Millennium Falcon? Well there goes my weekend. I got some space exploring to do.

Big fan of this one. Do you take commissions?

And it took less than 30 minutes for one to show up here.

We’ve definitely got blackberries and blackberry jam, but grape does tend to be the norm in a lot of areas. I prefer raspberry myself.

Can’t resist a chance to reccomend Technology Connections

Colorado Springs, fairly conservative area:

I would find it difficult to believe Tolkien ever left much of anything unintentionally unexplained in Middle Earth.

I want my movie to be cast entirely with Muppets and Tim Walz.

I tend to like the interpretation that he’s Sauron’s opposite. Completely free of desire and will to dominate.

Disclaimer: not sure I would call myself a “deeply knowledgeable” LOTR nerd.

My USB cables exist in a quantum superposition where the orientation of the male end is only determined after I fail to plug it in on the first try.

Is it really climbing if you don’t start at the planet’s core?

This is the most depressing thread I’ve read in a while.

And it’s never the people actually responsible for making the product shit. The only people that get hurt are the ones who did their best to fix issues created by the c suite.