Politicians' religion is money and power. Other religions are just a way to manipulate mass opinion.
Maeve
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Our memories are short and redundant news cycles endless, in addition to everything in our own lives to attend to. Greta and her family lived a fairly comfortable life, from what I understand (and I can have a faulty understanding), but her family loved her enough to make sacrifices to encourage her passion (I believe her mother gave up her career? Please correct me if I am wrong) which fortunately fell on climate justice, which naturally eventually led to social justice, since the poor and disenfranchised have the most to lose, first. This is a very bad rough summary so a few kilos of salt, please.
How do you mean clueless?
You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war.
William Randolph *Hearsts, the lot of them
That was a photo from the Floyd protests.
Not to mention cop cars and other images from the past. Pure yellow journalism.
Rubber-coated bullet*
Thanks for that. I need to reread it a couple of times and stew on it for a good while. Being from the USA, my perspective is obviously skewed from that perspective. My immediate question arises from generations behind baby boomers who never had the opportunity of home ownership (and related maintenance/tax expenses), who may be able to inherit properties, if not having to be signed over to the state for necessary elder care expenses. In this situation, the beneficiary have wealth, but have to sell the property to pay taxes, then be taxed on savings, and still unable to afford modest housing, rented or bought.
In this example, my immediate thought is in favor of doing away with sales and/or VAT, but having aggressively progressive income taxes, with income under $x being exempted, or even negative tax burden*.
*Kitten bumped device before sentence completed.
Sure, and that's extremely important context that should be included, because
taxes are a way - and always have been - to redistribute from the poor to the rich. Sounds about right.
Comes off sounding ancap or USA style libertarian.
It took six decades to get here, I'm hard-headed, you know? I didn't want to believe it, but I can't live in denial, anymore.
Sure
One side makes plans and can't manage random variables; the other rides the lightening with audacity and wins. IDK how that works. If we're doing clichΓ©, fortune favors the bold, I guess? π€·ββοΈ