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It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

They all do. My best guess as to why you’d say this is that you’re including Democrats.

edit: Or, I could be a self-centered American that didn’t consider others. I’ll do better.

At risk of a strawman…

The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

That’s what’s best for equality and for economic growth. Does this mean Democrats are horribly incompetent? Perhaps it’s that equality and economic growth aren’t their goals.

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ED: You see a well groomed garden. In the middle, on a small hill, you see a gazebo.

ERIC: A gazebo? What color is it?

ED: [pause] It’s white, Eric.

ERIC: How far away is it?

ED: About 50 yards.

ERIC: How big is it?

ED: [pause] It’s about 30 ft across, 15 ft high, with a pointed top.

ERIC: I use my sword to detect good on it.

ED: It’s not good, Eric. It’s a gazebo.

ERIC: [pause] I call out to it.

ED: It won’t answer. It’s a gazebo.

ERIC: [pause] I sheathe my sword and draw my bow and arrows. Does it respond in any way?

ED: No, Eric, it’s a gazebo!

ERIC: I shoot it with my bow. [roll to hit] What happened?

ED: There is now a gazebo with an arrow sticking out of it.

ERIC: [pause] Wasn’t it wounded?

ED: OF COURSE NOT, ERIC! IT’S A GAZEBO!

ERIC: [whimper] But that was a +3 arrow!

ED: It’s a gazebo, Eric, a GAZEBO! If you really want to try to destroy it, you could try to chop it with an axe, I suppose, or you could try to burn it, but I don’t know why anybody would even try. It’s a @#$%!! gazebo!

ERIC: [long pause. He has no axe or fire spells.] I run away.

ED: [thoroughly frustrated] It’s too late. You’ve awakened the gazebo. It catches you and eats you.

ERIC: [reaching for his dice] Maybe I’ll roll up a fire-using mage so I can avenge my Paladin.

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Many people have their choices made for them because there are no practical alternatives.

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NewsChannel 5 Investigates discovered hours and hours of videos where Shawn Taylor has appeared on podcasts associated with the widely discredited QAnon conspiracy theories.

Source: link in the OP article to part one of an eight part series.

Editorial: A local news station investigated, uncovered evidence, and appear to be interviewing those involved about what they find analyzing the evidence, then reporting in a series of lengthy articles full of direct quotes. True journalism lives.

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We’re given just enough scraps to avoid mass unionization. That’s because the last time it happened we got The New Deal. This time it’ll be the Economic Bill of Rights. The leftist platform hasn’t changed for 80 years.

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He wasn’t laughing with Jews about the overbearing kindness of their mothers. If you say the quiet part out loud then you’re of little use in sustaining and increasing profits. It’s easier to burn witches than to acknowledge the quiet part said out loud.

This isn’t rocket science. It’s apathy, an incarnation of MLK’s white moderate.

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We already built more than enough houses. The problem is that bank and landlords profits contribute to economic growth, the mandate of capitalism. Housing the homeless would contribute far more to economic growth. But, it’d take more than four years to see the results.

So no. We can’t house them. The need to suffer because otherwise capitalism is threatened.

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I’d never worked out in my life. So, I visited many gyms, found a mom & pop, and hired the trainer free from corporate constraints.

My second session he said, “You might be better off doing bodyweight exercises at home for a few weeks.”

I told him that there was absolutely no way I’d form this habit by myself. I needed him to hold me accountable. I needed a routine.

We did bodyweight exercises at the gym for a few weeks. We set goals of a certain number of push ups, (band assisted) pull ups, sit ups, and (I forgot the name of the hamstring exercise) to “earn” my way back to the machines and free weights.

I can definitely understand how a trainer could get frustrated with an individual. But, a trainer that sends a noob home simply sucks. They should at least provide a referral to another trainer.

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Cleaner hyperlink if the above fails

edit: guy obviously says “colored”, not “college”, and the context is damning

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I’d like one “law enforcement panic” defense, please.

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