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DMC replied to La Grande Mademoiselle's topic in General Chatter
Tbc I was joking/being sardonic and not in any way commenting on this woman’s ethnicity nor nationality. The implication of my ellipses was that, of course, this administration will find a way to deport you regardless. -
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Ormond replied to La Grande Mademoiselle's topic in General Chatter
Thanks, obviously I didn't read far down enough. -
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Lord of Oop North replied to La Grande Mademoiselle's topic in General Chatter
The BBC article goes into this, actually: -
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Lord of Oop North replied to La Grande Mademoiselle's topic in General Chatter
Good thing we dumped that digital services tax in good faith, eh? -
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Ormond replied to La Grande Mademoiselle's topic in General Chatter
As a Christian Armenian-Iranian, she almost surely would have a justifiable fear of persecution if she were to be deported back to Iran at this point in history. And I'm not sure the Trump administration would try to send a plane to Iran with deportees -- too dangerous for the crew. But I am sure there would be other countries that would take her. This reminds me that my mother's best friend when I was a child was a Christian Armenian-Iranian immigrant. She had met and married a German Swiss engineer who was working in Tehran and then he got a job in the United States working for the same company my father did. She was quite an interesting woman and certainly not stupid -- too bad this woman doesn't take after her. -
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Ser Scot A Ellison replied to La Grande Mademoiselle's topic in General Chatter
^Clearly not a cult…^ -
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Aemon Stark replied to La Grande Mademoiselle's topic in General Chatter
Now Dumpy is threatening a 35% tariff on all Canadian goods as well. How would a 100% exit surcharge on oil go down? -
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DMC replied to La Grande Mademoiselle's topic in General Chatter
Just because you’re too stupid for any country to want you… -
Penny for your thoughts: economic stuff
Tears of Lys replied to Rippounet's topic in General Chatter
@Rippounet Calling Mlle "billionaire loving," is extremely unfair. She merely raised a few interesting questions. But I'm sure she can defend herself far better than I could. -
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Lord of Oop North replied to La Grande Mademoiselle's topic in General Chatter
No, this is not The Onion https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vd1vn9n06o Detained in immigration raids, Maga mom still has faith in Trump's mass deportation plan I think there may have just be a Supreme Court decision on that one? Good luck lady. -
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I’m also skeptical that a wealth tax could be implemented well, but I’m curious about the current proposal. Unfortunately, I don’t have a subscription to lemonde, so I’m unable to read the portion of the op-ed that explained the details around implementation. Can you please copy and paste an excerpt on the implementation? Some of my concerns would be around the taxation of founders of startups, particularly at the pre-IPO stage, and taxation of founders of privately owned companies. Are these addressed in the op-ed?
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Canadian Politics: Red or Blue, Orange or Green, But Never 51
Fragile Bird replied to Fragile Bird's topic in General Chatter
I saw that this morning. Five Republicans assholes. -
Are all weirwoods connected to each other?
Castellan replied to Bloodmage's topic in General (ASoIaF)
Its interesting. I think a poster once said they were making a list of weirwood objects and asked if they'd missed any, so I searched on weirwood which obviously threw up the trees as well, and I was struck by how few there were especially in the southron areas. The eradication phase was obviously quite efficient. I seem to remember there were some descriptions of vast wooded areas with weirwoods dotted around in them, which doesn't seem how they'd grow if only by roots. Also, why don't Godswoods trees turn into forests if that is how they grow? Also, do they need blood? Blood sacrifices under a weirwood tree seems to be an ancient thing and I noted in AGOT Ned cleans his sword in the Godswood pond after executing Gared, and Luwin dies of his wound under the tree. Or does the blood just enable better communication or something rather than providing essential nutrients? -
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Fragile Bird replied to La Grande Mademoiselle's topic in General Chatter
The comments are great. -
Music: Helping Us Get Through This Awfulness...
Manhole replied to Phylum of Alexandria's topic in Entertainment
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DC Cinematic Universe: Dragongirl of Steel
IheartIheartTesla replied to AncalagonTheBlack's topic in Entertainment
I did mention before that I wasnt particularly interested in this movie, but the backlash to it from conservative Chads has been hilarious and I am now rooting for its success. Apparently Dean Cain crawled out of the woodwork with some word salad complaints about 'wokeness' too, and social media abounds with rage filled nonsense about how Corenswet isn't alpha enough (I think one ludicrous complaint was about how he was crossing his legs during an interview). Of course i enjoy trolling these clowns who may or may not share a laefe Venn space with Snyder fanbois. -
Pat Rothfuss XVIII: Whereof one cannot speak...
Myrddin replied to Gaston de Foix's topic in Literature
But not as incredible as Pod. -
I would be interested to know where I could find this. But I'm more interested in the reasoning.
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Notwithstanding the fact that this proposal comes from seven of the brightest economists of this century, and that some of them have surely given this some kind of thought, this op-ed was very explicitly about France, which not only had a functioning wealth tax from 1989 to 2018, but this op-ed was clearly written to support a specific bill, that therefore explained how it was to be implemented. But don't worry my dear billionaire-loving friend, the French Senate heroically voted down the proposal, using even worse arguments than yours. There will never be a shortage of folks using ridiculous arguments to defend obscene wealth, regardless of what happens to everyone else. So let us keep not even trying, that way we will avoid lots of "difficult" questions.
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Interstellar comets! If you have joined the comet catchers project; I'd point out that there is a toggle switch at the bottom of the window that may capture movement.
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Football: It was the best of times, it was the Wirtz of times
Mexal replied to ljkeane's topic in Entertainment
Arsenal buying Madueke is hilarious. We are Chelsea’s best customers.