It’s not just Reagan. The same is happening all over the world, including Europe. And his policies were 40 years ago. At some point, we need to own our own problems.
The real issue is that the rich people worldwide have figured out how to mostly avoid paying taxes, while the middle class bears the brunt of taxation - which prevents them from becoming wealthy - and the lower class gets nothing.
That wasn’t Reagan, it would have happened even if FDR had become an immortal vampire and had the New Deal lasted a century.
What we really need is to start taxing the rich and to greatly reduce taxation on the middle class. And we need to really get serious about it.
The US government can spend millions to track down and kill a Shepard in Syria, but they can’t find the capital gains on Jeff Bezos portfolio.
Dude, I’m really sorry, but the 19th century sent a letter by pony express and they want their economic theory back.
There are struggling “capitalists” that own their own little manufacturing company, restaurant, hair salon or other small business.
And then there are rich as hell “workers” like Taylor Swift who have become billionaires through their own labour. She can fill football stadiums full of people willing to pay top dollar to see her perform, I simply can’t.
And I think most people don’t have a problem with Taylor being a billionaire.
But the problem arises when middle class people pay half of what they have in tax, while rich people have effective tax rates of <10%. Jeff Bezos had a five figure tax bill as he became the richest man in the world.
A million middle class Americans making $100K are still out earning Jeff by a huge margin, but they are collectively also paying way more tax than Jeff, so Jeff can keep investing his money, while those million Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
Not changing history. Just saying that democrats had all the power they could want and failed to implement change to make things better. Literally after running on a campaign of Change.
You are stuck at step 1, I invite you to move on to step 2 and actually start looking at how we are gonna solve problems.
You can go back all the way to colonial times and feudal times and even earlier to discuss how societies have become less egalitarian since the invention of agriculture.
But we are here, right now and it’s best to identify the actions we can take today, for a brighter tomorrow.
It’s unlikely that the details will be known before an agreement is reached.
But to your point, what really matters is whether the USA will force Israel to accept the proposal, or if the Israeli population protests harder against Netanyahu (but that’s unlikely to reach the required mass).
Netanyahu wants the war to continue and will not accept any deal, unless his hand is forced.
Anyway, Israel was telling people to flee Rafah. My local news says they are probably doing that to pressure Hamas by panicking the Gazan population.
So, no, I don’t think Israel will accept the deal.
If the USA tried to again be a White/European ethnostate and allow anyone with Caucasian heritage to immigrate and barred everyone else from immigrating, then no one today would accept that.
And if they went full on apartheid and started putting natives and minorities in locked down ever-shrinking reservations, people would really lose their shit.
When white nationalists try to advocate for such policies, they are rightfully criticized for being racist.
I can never understand why Israel gets special treatment in that regard.
The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.
Indeed, also it’s much nicer to use a shared high quality tool than to buy an el-cheapo disposable tool.
Even something simple like a crowbar. I once borrowed a (shorter) professional crowbar after struggling with a (larger) cheap one. The thing I was trying to pry came out like butter.
Even though physics dictates that a shorter lever should be inferior, it just had a much better design and grip.
I feel obliged to point out that, Brexit didn’t happen, then his rights as an EU citizen would have been violated. As far as I know, you can’t use the Schengen system against EU citizens.
But because he was British and Brexit happened, Germany could do this.
But I do wonder… if the French government would formally invite him, they should be able to overrule the German decision. It seems that they decided not to do that?
If you can’t tell the difference between a limited number of well known examples and a statistical percentage, then perhaps you shouldn’t lecture others on thinking.
The family of a gay British-Mexican man held in Qatar for alleged drug offences has given further details of what they say was a “honeytrap” operation using the gay dating app, Grindr....
Then you are basically implying the state of Israel can’t exist without genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.
Most of these protesters want a one state solution that doesn’t discriminate between people based on religion or ethnicity.
Or they want a two state solution where a Palestinian army can protect Palestinians against Israel stealing their land, denying them health care and imprisoning their families.
Historically, I’ve perceived Reddit as slightly left leaning, with strong pockets of conservatives. Recently though, a vast majority of comment sections seem to excuse violence, such as in this thread (TW: police brutality), where people say things like...
Usually with these types of things, it tends to be worse for the smaller economy, but both suffer. (See Brexit, Sanctions on Russia, Iran and Venezuela, and also historically those on apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia).
Turkey has a GDP 2-3x that of Israel, so I don’t know why you’d think it would be worse for them.
Biden says pro-Gaza student protesters ‘voices should be heard’ in Morehouse speech (www.independent.co.uk)
Renters' hopes of being able to buy a home have fallen to a record low, New York Fed survey shows (www.cnbc.com)
Geoff Duncan: Why I’m voting for Biden and other Republicans should, too (www.ajc.com)
‘We deserve more’: US workers’ share of the pie dwindles (www.theguardian.com)
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Hamas accepts Egypt, Qatar's ceasefire proposal, Al Jazeera reports (www.reuters.com)
Israel gotta go (lemmy.ml)
How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money (www.theguardian.com)
The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.
Gaza war surgeon feels ‘criminalised’ after being denied entry to France (www.theguardian.com)
Prof Ghassan Abu-Sitta says Schengen-wide ban imposed by Germany appears to be attempt to silence witness testimony...
Israel Briefs US on Plan for 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Rafah (www.commondreams.org)
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'Qatar targeted my brother on Grindr - I want him home’ (www.bbc.com)
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Israeli precision-guided munition likely killed group of children playing foosball in Gaza, weapons experts say | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Amid campus crackdowns, Gaza war triggers freedom of expression crisis (news.un.org)
When did reddit turn Facist?
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Turkey Halts All Trade With Israel Over War in Gaza (www.bloomberg.com)
Trade between the two countries was worth $6.8 billion in 2023...
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