elephantium

I’ll take some cleaning house vs 0 cleaning house.

This is like dusting the china cabinet while ignoring a giant hole in the wall from someone crashing their car through it.

Oh, I see. Carry on!

Four years ago the other party had the same

As noted elsewhere in the thread, this is blatantly untrue.

TBF, I think we'll still have elections next time. Even Russia still technically has elections.

Note, I'm not making any arguments about how legitimate those elections are going to be...

Not accurate. In 2021 the Supreme Court was split 6-3 in Republican favor.

Also, the Senate was super split with 50 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and 2 Independent Senators (who, although they caucused with the Democrats, wouldn't necessarily vote in lockstep) -- and two of the Democrats (Manchin and Sinema) seemed more interested in obstructing things than in the party's agenda.

You'd have a better argument if you'd brought up the ACA, IMO. The numbers in Congress favored the Dems more in 2009-2011.

You deleted this before I read it, btw.

Okay. Thank you? I think you replied to the wrong person. I wasn't asking for the definition of a flat rate income tax.

master/slave relationship in tech

Wait, this is a thread about branch names in git. The "master" in question would be more akin to a "master recording" from music, not master/slave software or system architecture.

Assuming you want to keep tax revenue the same, we're talking a $27k tax bill for each adult based on 2023's numbers (nothing newer was available).

Ordinary workers get shafted by taxes going up (rough guess, under $200k/year income) A few (TBH I'm not sure how many, really) pay about the same. Really high-income people make out like bandits.

If you think the economy is harsh for "regular joes" right now, oof. You're in for a doozy.

Playing games with the phrasing doesn't change the essence. I stand by my critique of your ghoulishness.

against migration

Hard disagree on that. We should encourage migration for anyone with the grit to go for it.

I was born in a small town in the US. My family moved twice in my childhood, and I moved again for college -- and several times as an adult.

Maybe you don't count that as 'migration', but if not -- what's the dividing line between simply "moving" and "migration"?