Migrated account from @CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
I posted this months ago (which has since been deleted but it’s on my profile)
Step 1: Become President
Step 2: As a private citizen, sue the government for billions of dollars
Step 3: As President, order to settle the lawsuit
Step 4: Profit
Trump figured out the step before profit.
The problem is selling the law to the lower middle class because they all believe they can get this rich and the tax will affect them.
I’d rather have a higher than it should be limit and reach the 0.01% obscenely rich than have the law beaten to death.
$5 mil is somewhat achievable. While bad, they aren’t as bad as those who have $5 BILLION in assets.
Someone who have $5 million has more in common with the poor than those who have $5 billion.
Inheritance beyond a set amount should be illegal. Billionaires passing on billions of dollars is just wrong.
$100 million cap on all inheritance. $500 million cap on total wealth. Anything beyond that is taxed at 100%.
Any attempt to “donate” the money to a family-controlled “charity” triggers a tax on the entire wealth at 90%.
Unions were the compromise between violence against the capital from the working class.
And they’ll still re-elect him.
The fuck? Why would the medical staff oblige? Why not just say “no”?
Fwiw US based providers have similar issues with prescriptions. Doctors report lower patient satisfaction scores for patients who don’t walk out with a prescription. It’s why antibiotic overuse is a thing.
It doesn’t surprise me one bit that doctors over-prescribe injectables in a country that sees them as a treatment.
The problem with shit like this is that all those Christians are absolutely going to vote Republican in November.
They would absolutely re-elect him if he ran again.
They would 100% believe him if he told them that he learned his lesson.
There is a right way to do this and a wrong way. I’ve seen it done the wrong way plenty of times but I’ve also seen this done the right way.
Most recently, there was a push to get rid of Microsoft Word, etc. and we were moving to Google Workplace.
They made it clear that there would be training available throughout the transition and that approvals for exceptions would require division head sign off (essentially the VP).
The day of, there were signs everywhere for how to get help. Extra people were hired to help people migrate. They were trained to get people out of Microsoft and into Drive. Prizes for best report. Slack channels, office hours, helpdesk, and even in person questions.
Company put their money where their mouth was.
It was the best case I saw of a company actually understanding how much of a pain it was going to be and doing what they could to lessen the burden.
Compare that to another company I worked with that went from Macs to PC. “You figure it out.” And IT support went off-shore.
So yeah I get where you’re coming from. But if an IT department handled a roll out the right way, I would volunteer for help desk.
By introducing a bill to repeal it.
Stop trying to argue with Trump. It doesn’t matter if the crime rate in Vatican City is zero. He’ll just move the goal posts.
The only shit these assholes understand is a blow to their ego.
Like how they are in the Epstein files and that means they are child rapists.
Honestly, this is such a great idea. Get the IT team to create a bootable distro with all the apps the average user needs. Have a video they can watch to get the basics down, have IT available to install one-off software.
At the end of the week give people the choice to keep going or go back to Windows/Mac and get feedback.
Try again in a couple of quarters.
Most people use web-based apps anyway.
I’d love to see Bernie repeal the special law that Congress put into place to prevent people from looking up private plane information.
The only leverage the US has is having a shitton of ordnance against a world that seems apathetic to the pummeling of a non-white country.
THAT’S what’s bringing Iran to the table.
This is what gets conservative dicks hard. Not out of a pursuit of peace or stability. But out of wanting to show the world that they are powerful.
Not just “ID” but a fucking birth certificate.
Which, of all the documents that can be faked, it’s that one.
No picture. Just a piece of paper with a name, weight and parents’ names.
It’s the same with minorities who are racist.
There are assholes in every society.
Just because they are marginalized by someone else doesn’t make them any less of an asshole.
It makes them conservatives.
It looks like they left because they were no longer getting engagement. Not because “it was the right decision”.
I’m glad they made the decision and I get their rationale for staying on other fascist platforms. But let’s not let go of the fact that they would have stayed on twitter if they still had engagement.
Doing the right thing would have been “we know our work is important and we are encouraging our large and active audience to leave twitter and follow us to mastodon. In fact we put together a great blog post on how to make this easy for you.”
Instead this reads as a whiney post about how Musk is minimizing their exposure, which, fair. But still they are trying to make it mean something more than it actually is.
Jfc you weren’t kidding.
Taylor v. Google or just search class action
With this administration, jurisdiction is wherever they think it is, and it’s up to Congress and/or the courts to disagree with him.
Or CNN is going to offer a tribute to Trump and this will go away.
We are no longer a country of law. We are a country ruled by fiat.
The Acquired podcast went over this history very briefly in their Epic episode and it’s so crazy how close we were to having universal healthcare.
Tl;dl:
So blame wage controls during WW2.
Oh and the Brits were facing similar forces when they were starting to stand up their healthcare system but decided instead to hire people to build a robust system so everyone didn’t have to pay anything at the point of sale.
Yeah, it really was that simple.