• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      cuts taxes

      shreds environmental standards

      sucks up to Big Oil and Finance

      defunds public services

      Done, done, done, and done.

      If you object to any of these, you aren’t a serious policymaker.

      • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        I wouldn’t necessarily have issues with tax cuts to the low and middle class, assuming we tax the shit out of mega businesses and the upper class

        • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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          1 month ago

          “Sorry. Best I can do is cut taxes and regulations for companies and billionaires as they are job creators. Your taxes are going to have to continue at the same rate. In fact, taxes for you may have to go up. Social spending will have to be cut.”

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          I also think raising taxes on people who aren’t me is a great idea.

          But from a macro-econ perspective, I do question why we’re paying private businesses to do government work and then taxing them on what we paid them. Seems like we could just insource the work to government agencies and save everyone a bureaucratic headache.

          • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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            1 month ago

            I also think raising taxes on people who aren’t me is a great idea.

            I mean, that’s not what I said.

            But from a macro-econ perspective, I do question why we’re paying private businesses to do government work and then taxing them on what we paid them. Seems like we could just insource the work to government agencies and save everyone a bureaucratic headache.

            I hate private public partnerships. So I agree with you there :)

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’m gonna end up showing up in Vancouver later this year for a big riichi mahjong tournament, and I’m ashamed to be American while I’m there. We fucked up as a country.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      I don’t know who this “we” is. I did everything I was supposed to for the last 30+ years. So I accept no blame for the current situation.

      • limer@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        I’m making a general observation, directed to no one and everyone in the USA at the same time, including myself, that the concept of collective guilt does apply to aggressor countries.

        There is always something that was not done. Even if the lack of action for the individual was trivial, minor, laughable even. If the reader thinks they are exempt, I invite them to read more history.

        My particular crime was staying silent about votes not being accurately counted in my state (Texas).

        My background as a computer programmer, who contributed to large systems similar to the software used, rang alarm bells inside me for years.
        Particularly after exit polls were diverging worse from the norm. And I had questions and insights that were helpful.

        But I understood the issue as an impossible conversation to have except among friends and fellow believers, so I simply stopped participating in the Democratic Party because of it 10 years ago, well before it became unfashionable to critique the voting systems.

        I had little influence, so anything I could have said would have little, if any, impact. But when one thinks how many other people who have a background in large systems also were silent … one gets the picture, I hope.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    1 month ago

    It’s a damn shame that this is true. We used to have such a good relationship with Canada, and then my sicko brothers and sisters voted for a maniac.