tootoughtoremember

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Can we please resurrect FDR, we need a newer deal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

To be honest, if you're able to make a million a year (even hundreds of thousands a year), you can afford an accountant who will tell you not to take compensation as employment income.

If you're a business owner you'll be taking a significant share as dividends, or if you're an executive you'll be taking stock options or other share based compensation. If done correctly, you can not only take advantage of lower tax rates but also defer taxes to future years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I feel seen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Doctors hate it! Cure your depression with this one simple trick! (may cause suicide in some cases)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Stop believing your lying eyes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not until after they purge the "woke" and "DEI" generals first and install their loyalists. Then the executive and military can operate as one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Look, Trump won an overwhelming 49.9% of the popular vote to Harris's meager 48.4%, of the 63.9% of eligible voters who turned out. We need to acknowledge the massive landslide victory this was, the clear mandate it provides Trump, and forfeit all gains made for equality and inclusion made over the last 50 years.

/s

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago

Look, Trump won an overwhelming 49.9% of the popular vote to Harris's meager 48.4%, of the 63.9% of eligible voters who turned out. We need to acknowledge the massive landslide victory this was, the clear mandate it provides Trump, and forfeit all gains made for equality and inclusion made over the last 50 years.

/s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

He's literally bought the social media platform that Trump used to control the (inter)national discourse for four years and modified its algorithm to suit his interests. He's copied Trump's tactics of maintaining media coverage by pushing out enough insane shit to capture the daily news cycle attention. His notoriety comes from his wealth and not an elected office, so we will never stop hearing about him for as long as he owns twitter and the media has the attention span of a gnat.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

The etymology section of your link suggests different:

The demographer, anthropologist, and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L'Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term third world (tiers monde), referring to countries that were playing a small role in international trade and business. His usage was a reference to the Third Estate, the commoners of France who, before and during the French Revolution, opposed the clergy and nobles, who composed the First Estate and Second Estate, respectively (hence the use of the older form tiers rather than the modern troisième for "third"). Sauvy wrote, "This third world ignored, exploited, despised like the third estate also wants to be something."

But you're right in that the term began to be used far more widely during the Cold War for political alignment.

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