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  • Reminds me of Education Queensland’s approach to creating usernames. First letter of the first name, first four letters of the surname. Followed by a sequential number.

    I nearly lost it when I saw a staff member by the name of something like Sharon Laverton (names slightly anonymised, but odds are someone else by that name exists) have an email that not only started slave, but also ended with a number for that final dehumanising touch. slave384@eq.edu.au.


  • Eh, I’m in Australia, where the problem’s not that big, so I certainly don’t feel any overwhelming pressure. While it’s different from wealth, the top income bracket threshold went from $180,000 to $190,000 between 2008 and 2024, despite inflation making that $180,000 equivalent to $270,000 in the meantime, even under right-wing governments. And all working Australians have superannuation, sometimes considerable sums. So things here at least are fine. But anyone in the US, sure, get off your butts and go do something. Here even the most despised billionaire is about as rich as she was back in 2012, and there’s at least some good evidence of her philanthropy. Australia’s in 9th place for wealth inequality apparently. The United States is 25th… from the bottom. That’s guillotine, or give your money away, territory.

    None of that means that I won’t ask Americans to do something about it, I mean your hideous wealth inequality is affecting us too.


  • How about this: anything over said wealth cap is automatically used to fund education, health initiatives, as well as fight poverty and homelessness.

    Honestly, I agree with the top comment, and is already implied by the top comment with the 100% tax. If they want to cash it out (before that assessment, or when they’re close to it) and burn it in a big pile instead of giving it to anybody in tax or charity, let them do it. It’ll still have a positive effect through deflation.

    All politicians must pay for their own health insurance.

    lol, no. Everybody gets free health insurance. The end. That’s the way to go on that.



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    Also, looking past that spelling mistake, what the hell is a War Room White House? Is that meant to refer to the situation room? The briefing room? Is it that she’s in two places at once, the White House and a virtual War Room of whatever media organisation she represents?

    Or is it, as I may be forced to suspect, a perpetual state of mind, a designation not in conflict of course with any of the above, but indicative of someone who not only cannot spell their job but is just there to, as the phrase goes, perpetually and obsequiously stir shit?














  • Which will never happen because the Republicans are dead set on never changing any system in any way that’s not directly in their benefit and no one else’s. Until that moment arrives, which is never, the only option is to pick your particular flavour of straight-up fascism (Republicans these days) or anything else (Democrats) in the party primaries.



  • Ah, yes, if only there was some Illinois politician close to Obama who had been associated with crimes similar to those of Trump, who had been absolutely and unambiguously disavowed by Democrats and imagine then also if only he had some type of relationship despite all that with Trump, who would also pardon him or something after his criminal conviction, making your comment like one big giant case of projection.

    lol, that would just be silly wouldn’t it.

    It would be just way too coincidental and spot on for words.

    Google ‘Blagojevich’.