sheldon bazinga'd my dog
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
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.
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
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.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:
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.
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
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.
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.
Actually it's worse than nothing. Youtube promotes comments based on engagement, so while only an upvote increases the tally, voting at all still makes it more visible.
I got here after they announced the API changes. Took about a week for the reddit posts to slow down at all but they're back in full force now that the changes have been implemented.
It's just people discussing something that's relevant to them. It'll go away eventually.
It's a bug. I've been getting it too, pretty sure it's related to how much stress the server is under. Give it a few minutes and refresh the page.
thats just so blatantly untrue lol. youre the type of morons who think you're only at fault in the trolley problem if you touch the lever at all
A month or two ago I got a bunch of downvotes for explaining why I didn't like a game. The people responding said it was because my comment was "too long." It was like six sentences. Why are these people on Reddit instead of Twitter?
I never said anything about who started the pause. Is Lemmygrad really pro Trump? lmao
You wouldn't have had anywhere near this much time before payments resumed if not for dems
lemmy.ml federation is bugged
Noticed this several days ago. I wanted to be active in this community: https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected]
However, as you can see by comparing to lemmy.ml's own version of the community, lemm.ee is not properly updating comments or point totals: https://lemmy.ml/c/tf2
When I left my own comment on a post there, it did federate to other instances, but it's not being updated on lemm.ee.
I've noticed something similar with other lemmy.ml communities, large and small. Compare:
https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected] and https://lemmy.ml/c/steam/
Politics as well:
https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected] and https://lemmy.ml/c/politics
And probably others as well. I've checked to make sure my language isn't set to undetermined and I've also tried viewing the communities while logged out.
There's also something bugged about trying to subscribe to any of lemmy.ml's communities. They appear on my profile and feed as a sub, but visiting the communities themselves, I've been stuck on "subscribe pending" for several days. Clicking the button repeatedly to make another attempt to subscribe doesn't work. Not a huge deal since they still show up in my feed, but it might be related.