Mixed bag tbh

Absolute delusion, I think this guy is living in a completely different timeline. Not only does he completely re-define central terms like "MAGA" and "communism" and "the left", every political observation is at odds with offline reality. I don't think it even counts as incorrect when it's this fully detached from anything recognizable.

If it was just normal amounts, sure, but this is well into into non-functional territory. Anyone else would have already faced life-altering consequences for this kind of habit. And if he was a normal person this bad off I'd obviously have a lot of empathy, but with this amount of unaccountable power, every problem in his life is entirely his own fault. Insane how the most powerful people on the planet will preach "personal responsibility" to the rest of us, and then accept zero responsibility themselves.

Yeah, I think so, I just don't really have experience with how these would look if done in good faith, instead of being designed to fail.

For example the estate tax seems pretty simple and effective and politically safe, you'd just have to ban all the trust funds and 'step up in basis' and other nonsense the US/West allows. Maybe other approaches would also end up simpler than expected, idk. And I really know almost nothing about how taxes currently work in China (or other AES) so I feel like I don't have a lot of reference points for something that seems like it should be simple and intuitive.

@[email protected], in last week's thread you mentioned the need to reduce wealth inequality in China, but I don't remember if you've previously discussed a specific mechanism for this? Is a wealth tax feasible in China? Income taxes seem pretty ineffective at this. I don't really know much about their current tax structure. Expropriation would also work, but that seems hard to scale (as well as disruptive).

The man is a dried out husk

Somewhere in here there's an attack helicopter joke, but I can't land it

The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of garbage.

New TikTok trend of posting comedic death threats against senators

The thing is, they're almost right: it was a spectacle, he did want attention - ATTENTION TO THE GENOCIDE. They just can't (or refuse to) understand that anyone could take any action to benefit a larger cause instead of benefiting themselves as individuals.

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