Mmmmm yes generational conflict will stoke the working class against each other yessss the plan is working

Before he started glazing trump he was an empty suit who did whatever Florida’s sugar lobby wanted. He’s never had anything

Most people think the Supreme Court will always act like the Warren Court when in reality, with the exception of those 20 or so years, it’s been nothing but reactionary and conservative at best. Dredd Scott anyone?

You will get nowhere blaming individuals for systemic problems and also you’re alienating your potential allies like a true leftist so maybe chill on the class traitor stuff

In a leftist bookstore, talking with the proprietor who has an extensive collection of left-wing labor/union literature, and randomly he starts talking about how Lincoln was the worst president etc. and just launches into lost cause mythology of the Confederacy. Hardest conversational 180 I’ve ever experienced

Not OP but New England has many also

Salespeople at car dealerships (used or new), and dealership owners moreso. In North America they benefit from protectionist laws to keep people from buying cars directly from manufacturers, which adds approximately $2k to the sale of each car on average. Pointless middlemen who are almost universally the worst people you can imagine. And the dealer service shops are not much better than scams either.

Any hobby you have where you someone could reasonably assume you could make money at it can be claimed to be a business and used to deduct expenses from your taxes. Since the Trump tax cut of 2017 you don’t even need to create a legal structure for that business anymore. You just literally fill out schedule C as a sole proprietor.

“Middle class” landlords do this all the time, since they get rent as income they can deduct all their expenses at Lowes et. al., if you keep a garden in the summer and ever sell your produce, even if it’s just one tomato, you can deduct gardening expenses, if you own a boat and take people out on charter you can deduct your boat expenses, etc. (Make sure to follow other laws about this, I don’t know where you live and just came up with these off the top of my head.) I have even heard of people starting YouTube cleaning channels to teach people who to clean, and now you can reasonably deduct expenses for your cleaning products.

Also business expenses are “above the line” so this has nothing to do with the standard deduction like charitable donations and mortgage interest do, those are below the line.

Rule of thumb is there’s some length of time you can report losses before the IRS comes sniffing around so if you’re not filthy rich you may have to deal with an audit, but it’s not illegal to try to start a business and not make money. Word on the street is you can lose money running even a casino and deduct those losses too.

This is not legal advice, go look it up on your own and don’t do anything some random on the internet says

Maybe you should spend a trillion dollars a year on a military whose only purpose is to lower that number a few dollars per gallon

Untitled Goose Game

Hyundai/Kia have a major problem with the integrated charge control units that they’re basically refusing to provide a long-term solution for. If it fails in one car, they just replace it with an identical module and hope it doesn’t happen again. But the root cause has not been addressed.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-recalls-defects/hyundai-ioniq-kia-iccu-failure-tesla-a3038878758/

Maybe Texans should elect someone who won’t appoint stooges to the PUC

utilities management should remain under the purview of a publicly-accountable governing body

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Utility_Commission_of_Texas

Charlie! You can never come back!

A significant chunk don’t vote because of systemic problems, not because of personal choice

No you don’t get it, by redefining common words we can make society doubleplus good

This guy is from Maine, and they do have ranked choice voting for federal elections, one of the steps on the way to breaking the two-party stranglehold.

Of course the Republicans fought it tooth and nail, because they will never win another race with a system like this, and exploited a loophole in the state constitution to keep ranked choice out of state races.

My legs fall asleep after like 20 min so I would love some advice on extending my stay

Terminator 2 is always the classic example, been downhill since then though

He only had one pant? Where are the rest?