iceonfire1

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[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Reduced from 40 to 36 hours is in the right direction, but it's still a 5 day work week.

[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If you would prefer a socialist party candidate the most logical choice is to pick whatever Democratic/Republican candidate is most willing to enact voting method reform, e.g. ranked choice voting.

Because voters are incentivized to pick one of two main parties in the current method, third parties are essentially guaranteed never to get off the ground.

[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah and the senators who ratified women's right to vote were all elected by men but they still did the ethical thing.

At least Sanders seems to want to reduce billionaires' disproportionate influence on politics.

Maybe you're ok if Elon Musk's opinion on how much you should get taxed counts a billion times more than yours, but you really shouldn't be.

[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It is ironic, but if this was the case we would probably just see the Republican party shift to be more moderate and collect more votes. Not a bad thing IMO. Cultivating extremism is bad for democracy.

[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Upvoted for the honesty

[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

According to this: https://www.wkrg.com/alabama-news/lakeith-smith-resentencing-alabama/

The time was for two charges, theft/burglary and felony murder. The resentencing set the prison term to 30 years, effectively setting the sentence for felony murder alone at 5 years.

[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 138 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably he's on a diet and his wife won't let him eat more than 1 order of meatballs.

[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

Also he tricked the ents into walking past Isengard so that they'd see how many trees Saruman whacked and take an ax to him instead.

[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Feels like they overnerfed ember

[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Interesting. This kind of bill is for costs incurred as a result of the rally rather than for directly using the facilities, e.g. paying for an increased police presence to control protestors. Seems like candidates are not really obligated to pay for this.

[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

This article claims they pay a higher effective tax rate, not more in taxes. A citizen working the same position would pay even more in taxes since they would also have to pay income tax.

Maybe the headline should be that sales + other flat taxes are becoming an increasing burden for low income workers. This is the problem for the illegal immigrants in the study, and even more of a problem for citizens who earn the same amount.

[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)

*You can only teleport out to where you teleported in from.

Does this mean you get dropped into outer space if you stay inside for more than checks notes ~4 minutes?

 
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