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@Frank said in US Politics:
It's happening.
Ummm.
I saw a tweet that showed the mayor of Minneapolis being booed for NOT defunding the Police.
Is this for real or more trolling from fuck knows what side of the divide, especially given they can't spell 'willing'.
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@booboo said in US Politics:
I saw a tweet that showed the mayor of Minneapolis being booed for NOT defunding the Police.
Is this for real or more trolling from fuck knows what side of the divide, especially given they can't spell 'willing'.Some words spring to mind: Pitchforks, Mobs, Group-think, heretics, rage over reason, emotion over fact.
Politics. US-style.
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I had lunch with my Zimbabwean friend yesterday. This madness has actually gotten to the point where some of her white friends have messaged her to apologise for their 'white privilege'. The kind of person who demands others take a knee for them are not the kind of people who should have any power at all.
I'm starting to think there is a parallel here with the turning away from religion. Maybe people really do need something to worship and believe in. I'm no charlie church but give me preachy Christians any day over this mess.
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Not taking the piss here, but I do wonder how long it will be until there's a campaign in the US for white people to pay a "white privilege" tax.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
Not taking the piss here, but I do wonder how long it will be until there's a campaign in the US for white people to pay a "white privilege" tax.
Not far fetched at all. Corporates are welcoming in blatant racism now, governments may not be far behind.
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
I'm starting to think there is a parallel here with the turning away from religion. Maybe people really do need something to worship and believe in. I'm no charlie church but give me preachy Christians any day over this mess.
And to be forgiven. The belief that we are sinners (white privilege is one manifestation) seems to go deep (not with everyone but far too many)
If people can't get forgiveness through the church for their 'sinfulness' they turn elsewhere.
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
I had lunch with my Zimbabwean friend yesterday. This madness has actually gotten to the point where some of her white friends have messaged her to apologise for their 'white privilege'. The kind of person who demands others take a knee for them are not the kind of people who should have any power at all.
I'm starting to think there is a parallel here with the turning away from religion. Maybe people really do need something to worship and believe in. I'm no charlie church but give me preachy Christians any day over this mess.
What the actual fuck?
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
I had lunch with my Zimbabwean friend yesterday. This madness has actually gotten to the point where some of her white friends have messaged her to apologise for their 'white privilege'. The kind of person who demands others take a knee for them are not the kind of people who should have any power at all.
I'm starting to think there is a parallel here with the turning away from religion. Maybe people really do need something to worship and believe in. I'm no charlie church but give me preachy Christians any day over this mess.
Did we see any white feet washing?
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@MiketheSnow said in US Politics:
What the actual fuck?
Indeed.
Have to remember not to take a photo op of a couple of weirdos as representing the opinion of the majority though.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
Not taking the piss here, but I do wonder how long it will be until there's a campaign in the US for white people to pay a "white privilege" tax.
Income tax is privilege tax.
When we hit 70K in NZ, we get 33% I think?
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@reprobate said in US Politics:
You'd probably need to earn quarter of a mill to get near that in the states.
Federal tax (and on worldwide earnings for any US citizen).
41 states have their own tax to add to that. California is something like %7.5 but can be more I think. So not as good as it might appear. Complicated system too. -
I wonder how much of this is driven by Narcism? We had thousands crowding streets across Australia on the weekend during a global pandemic Do they really give a damn about black lives? Or are they more interested in getting that sweet selfie at the protest for facebook. If there is another wave of pandemic deaths (I doubt their will be but that is official advice) would those lives matter?
If official statistical record doesn't back up the claims of the protesters then is their claim then that stats are lies? And the reason they believe those stats are lies is because they would expect crime distribution to equal ethnicity population distribution. Is it too hard to accept that although some groups on average commit disproportionately more crime than other groups that fact should never stop us from striving to treat people as individuals?
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For personal tax, US federal tax has a 32% marginal rate at US$160k.
If you earn US$100k in California you pay 28.94% total tax with standard deductions.
If you earn that amount in NZ (NZ$152k) you pay 28.24% total tax (no payments to kiwi saver).
California state sales tax is 7.25%, with an extra 0.1 to 1.0% depending on local district.
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