The point of long term capital gains tax is so people don’t just yank money out all the time. It provides incentive to keep your money in the market.

That said, making the ltcg tax just 2% less than your income tax seems better than a flat 13% or whatever it is.

“Objectively”

And just because China had companies go under doesn’t mean they aren’t still subsidized to the hilt.

I do enjoy though people that are normally pro Union, pro worker, etc. essentially arguing that these people’s jobs don’t matter and we’ll take subsidized foreign cars just because they’re cheaper.

Teslas are American and of course have been subsidized. But the article is about Volkswagen and German companies…

Article doesn’t really point to Chinese vehicles being the primary reason though- it’s that demand is down for cars in Europe.

That said, it’s not really free market capitalist anyway for China to heavily subsidize EV production.

No… No I wouldn’t. At least if you’re from Europe. Been a lot of places and theyre all nice.

I’d put it more like people can’t take one day to go vote (two if we count primaries).

Like you said- people aren’t making this grand sacrifice and it’s foolish to expect them to, especially given the sacrifice is far, far greater.

Game changer

What’s funny is I’ve been out there at like 10 at night and it’s dead quiet.

This city is a jewel surrounded by morons.

Their i4 is one of the most normal looking EVS out there.

Don’t worry- the morons in this state will just reelect them.

Imagine categorically rejecting someone because of a job they had.

A lot of active political people here are hopeless. They don’t know a thing about a person except one vague item and that’s already disqualifying.

No wonder people here are always upset. No one will ever be good enough.

Why are people responding if they have no team or interest? Like wandering into a star trek community and going "no I don’t like this show "

Great for you but completely unnecessary.

At this rate Im pulling for England for Kane or most definitely Norway. Love the underdogs.

Follow many, many teams across the world. Most underperform

Don’t let facts get in the way of their narrative.

If things don’t go precisely according to their wishes it must be the deep state sorry, DNC.

A ton are corrupt sure but of course it doesn’t matter if people choose to do nothing.

People take their innate power and just throw it in the trash. It’s disappointing.

If he’s dead then there would have to be a death certificate.

My bet is on him being a vegetable and them not doing anything til that August timeline they want to get past.

I think I’d just buy the same politicians they do to fund that stuff permanently instead.

For real. The sanctimonious bullshit of Lemmy is probably the worst part. Who cares if people like her music?

Maemo/meego was better than all those IMO. It still half lives on in sailfish but had Nokia not been burned it could’ve been a true Goliath that could compete.

No…not at all.

Believe it or not, I can carry on a conversation about something trivial without having to interject politics about it all. Again- it’s a dumb non-story and I, someone who is online enough, saw maybe 1-2 articles about it in my feed and went on by. It’s not a big deal and regular people won’t see it as a big deal either. Ie. this wedding is not something that at all is affecting their day to day life because it’s a one off and will be forgotten in a week’s time.

You’d have better luck convincing people that she is bad because her private jet burns so much fuel and releases so much CO2 into the air which is causing this insane heat and rapid weather changes, more tornadoes in areas they previously weren’t in, etc. etc. Not downtalking and making up fantasies about a wedding (which, most people are far more likely to have a wedding of their own and attend many so maybe attacking the institution of marriage and the fun of a wedding is not the play.) You’d also have more luck saying we shouldn’t be reliant on billionaire’s generosity (like her donating to whatever cause, maybe wiping out medical debt or whatever she did) if we just taxed all billionaires so this was done all the time.

See what I mean? Catch more flies with honey.

I honestly equate this to some trekkie going up to a random person that goes on and on about how it’s the best TV series ever- no one asked and they certainly aren’t going to be super receptive. Talking to people and slowly convincing them of your position and the righteousness of it is a skill and a necessity, not some nice add-on.