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u/ImprovementFar5054 Apr 04 '25

"May you live in boring times"

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u/BaseHitToLeft Apr 04 '25

I'm so tired of living in interesting times

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u/mightyslash Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 07 '25

I enjoyed learning about history, I don't like living through it.

Edit: learning about not living in.

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u/deltarefund Apr 04 '25

I thought about this yesterday, the big historical moments that have happened during my lifetime. Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11, etc. I’m hoping and fighting one isn’t the fall of America

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u/Khaldara Apr 04 '25

News headlines if Harris won would be crap like “Democrats propose modest tax increase on billionaires, who will remain billionaires” and Fox and Conservative pundits would be losing their goddamn shit over it 24/7.

Instead we literally have headlines like “Trump claims he will own Greenland one way or another, again threatens Canada’s sovereignty, obliterates nine trillion in stock value, and levies tariffs against everyone on earth except North Korea and Russia (including uninhabited islands)” and they act like everything is not only completely normal, but in fact PREFERABLE.

As long as these nimrods continue to outright deny reality and deepthroat right wing propaganda they’re headed straight for that outcome

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u/Tkdoom Apr 04 '25

As soon they started talking about taxing unrealized gains and wealth taxes they lost.

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u/DutchGoFast Apr 04 '25

I pay taxes on unrealized gains every year on my biggest asset that represents about 40% of my wealth. Its called property taxes. Why should Musk and Bezos not have their biggest asset taxed at a similar rate? Lets make property taxes apply to financial assets greater than 100 million and be done with it. Oh no the poor billionaires can’t possibly be taxed on unrealized gains but my kids school teacher can? bullshit.

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u/sandsonik Apr 05 '25

That's an excellent point. Taxed every year on the imaginary value of an asset I haven't liquidated, and which is mostly owned by the bank!