@aelwero - eviltoast
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  • I’m purely about individual liberties for all individuals.

    That makes me absolutely centrist, and in defiance of the societal definitions of the word “libertarian”, I’m using it in that specific context.

    If you’ve got a better term, lay it on me :)








  • That sounds like it’s exactly the point…

    Normally I’d chalk your comment up as being a little too “tinfoil hat” to warrant engaging, but half the article implies exactly that, and I don’t think the author was doing it on purpose because quite frankly, I don’t think there are any news authors left with the competence to do so.

    This is 100% some shit I’d expect to come out of the red team though… The Biden administration hasn’t struck me as being on the side of corporate interests (generally speaking… I’m not naive enough to think the Biden administration couldn’t be bought, I’m speaking to track record here…), and I don’t think this would impact tax revenue much, which is to say that there’s not much ulterior motivation for blues to trump up a bullshit problem to keep Chinese cars out of the market.

    I’m inclined to agree with your opinion, but logically it doesn’t add up, is my point :)



  • There were others who changed sports as well… Fosbury didn’t cause the Olympic committee to implement any bans, which is to say that others arguably attempted much larger changes…

    He simply tried something way the hell off the beaten path and it caused people to think differently about how to go about doing their thing.

    Jimi wasn’t even the only revolutionary influence in his time, you could argue chuck berry had more influence at the time, you could argue Charlie christian had more influence at sorta the same time, you could argue Zeppelin, Sabbath, the Beach boys…

    Nobody came crashing into music from deep left field like Hendrix did though, just like nobody came into the Olympics from deep left field the way fosbury did (I’d argue for korbut, but nobody followed her lead due to pretty much everything she did getting banned).

    I get what you mean and don’t disagree, but I did say I was speaking to a specific context ;)



  • Hendrix. Hendrix is the fosbury of music. Dude went off in his own direction in both technical and compositional terms, and a lot of people followed.

    There’s solid points in the comments, but I feel like we’re talking about a single individual ignoring convention here, and there’s really only one answer in that context :)


  • Attachment to either party is waning among younger voters. A plurality (41%) of them call themselves independents.

    I swear this is a generational thing. Silent Gen were rebellious bastards, boomers were not, gen x are rebellious bastards, millennials are not, gen z going with being rebellious bastards totally checks out .

    My old gen x ass is 100% with you my little dudes/dudettes… Gotta fight for your right to party ;)


  • The Ministry of Finance estimates the tax could generate about $43 million a year in tax revenue.

    What could go wrong you ask? It’s right there… $43m a year… That doesn’t get deducted from the profits of the speculators, it comes out of the equity in the homes that get sold. The flippers aren’t gonna eat the tax, they’re going to add it to the cost of the homes they flip.

    The law isn’t going to mitigate flipping much, it’s going to add $43m/year to the amount home prices increase by, and when people see the neighbors house values go up, they’ll demand more for their non-flip sales as well.



  • Regardless of where you stand on the matter of trump-putin, this has been the narrative for almost a decade, so trotting it back out kinda seems a little tired.

    It’s also a little silly that even with all the dragging this shit back out to beat a dead ass horse, there’s zero mention of trump, in an interview, claiming he’d end the Russia Ukraine issue overnight… I’d personally say that’s of much greater relevance than trying to subtly imply financial relations or even the little hint of blackmail she went for.

    There’s only one way you end that shit overnight… You hand Ukraine over to Russia.

    There’s plenty of people that wouldn’t vote for that… You wanna talk trump-putin in an attempt to influence votes, that’s the sound bite ya want.