BeegYoshi

joined 1 year ago
[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sheldon bazinga'd my dog

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

pretty much everyone from lemmygrad and hexbear dismiss anything from any western outlet as propaganda while uncritically spouting insanity from the putin regime or the ccp.

i saw someone unironically posting about "democratic dictatorship" yesterday. good times

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

and im taking the hat with me

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

It's not the same. Most people calling the 2016 election a sham will admit that Trump did technically win by the rules as written, but also think that those rules are bullshit because they allowed a multi-million person majority to be shut out in favor of a malevolent moron. The people saying Biden lost are saying he literally cheated and that there's a conspiracy of thousands of government employees collaborating to break the rules and subvert the will of the people; that the multi-million majority literally doesn't exist. This is just as disingenuous as comparing the top secret documents that Trump hid to the ones that Biden and Pence handed over immediately on request.

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are dying on an an hill made of data chosen in piecemeal by news outlets that profit off of your attention.

mk bud. i cant believe you still dont understand why those rates are misleading. good luck out there

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Your statistic doesn't support your conclusion. His statement is not contradicted, and is in fact true.

Several articles about how poorer taxpayers are significantly more likely to be targeted:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/irs-targeted-poorest-taxpayers-millionaires-went-unscathed-2022-report

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-audit-eitc-five-times-as-likely-to-get-audited/

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-easier-and-cheaper-to-audit-the-poor

An article about how audit rates are dropping in general, and dropping fastest for those with the highest incomes:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2022/05/18/irs-tax-return-audit-rates-plummet/?sh=642e0b711cca

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I never said to ignore it for low income taxpayers, but the statistic you provided is incredibly misleading. Plus the IRS would recoup far more money by auditing higher income taxpayers at much greater rates.

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

the misleading thing about that statistic is that there are far, far fewer wealthy people than there are normal. even with the rate of audits technically being lower, the number of audits of normal people is still far, far greater, and is where the IRS's focus truly is

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

being justified or not has nothing to do with whether something is violent. if someone is getting hurt, maimed, or killed, that's violence, no matter how much they deserve it.

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they just pop out of holes in the ground

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Meta/Facebook and Google/Alphabet are very different from Twitter/X. The first two created parent companies under which their large brand names still exist, but are now managed along with their other properties (Instagram, ~~Snapchat~~, Waymo, Deepmind, etc.) Musk, meanwhile, is trying to completely burn down the Twitter brand for some incomprehensible reason.

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