It's amazing how many of these "trad" people are completely clueless that an isolated nuclear farming family isn't traditional in the slightest.

Hey, me too! Except I want growth. I want an army of consultants, all of whom own equal parts of the company. We could charge 3/4 of our competition and still make a ton of income while undercutting the larger, shareholder controlled firms. Someday...

Call me crazy but having €1,25M in assets (beyond your professional assets and home) while there are still people in need seems like a fine point to start contributing more to society and less to further increasing your personal wealth. If I had anywhere near that much money, I'd happily double my tax rates if it went to supporting those who can't support themselves and assisting those who could benefit from it.

I also suspect the home value exception is a major loophole here. The rich would begin investing more than ever into their homes.

From many years ago, in a previous career.

Job: IT

Issue: hardware of some kind is broken

Customer, incredulous: "...but it wasn't broken yesterday!"

Yeah, no shit. That's how things break. They're fine, then become broken. Why is this even being discussed?

They're correct, it's just overcomplicated as fuck in ways that are correct but completely irrelevant to the question.

I think you mixed up your sides after the first sentence.

As someone with dysfunctional hands, assuming you're not kidding, speech recognition and eye/head tracking has come a long way. Unless your creative project is detailed art. It hasn't come that far.

A Sanders/Harris ticket (in either order) would have been great for people like me but I don't think it would fly with much of the US

Some nice whataboutism you got there.

Adolf Twitler and his Turd Reich calls upon America's Cosplaytriots to "save America".

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IYKYK

They're talking about the literal translation, not the conceptual translation. They're also a little off.

Gratia literally translates to "grace". Exempli gratia, with exempli used in the genetive case, directly translates to "graced examples". More appropriate English would say "for the grace of examples", and a better, localized translation would say "for the sake of example". It's commonly translated to "for example" since that would be the most common phrase to communicate the concept in English.

All these years later and college Latin finally was useful.

It's almost like you ignored the entire content of the comment you responded to so you could refute a point that isn't being made.

They're doing more than that, but clearly you're not interested in discourse so much as... Checks notes... Looking for opportunities to tell people they're wrong, so I'm not going to waste my time explaining further.

The straw man is "tankies". There are actual tankies on Lemmy, but these geniuses are using it like United States fascists use woke: to describe anything they don't like and to shut down discourse. They're pretty much blue MAGA. It's gross.

I feel the same way, both about the cultish behavior and that people can and should do better. Unfortunately, the United States treats politics much like it treats sports, and I believe this is partly why idiocy like this manifests so frequently.

Many people on .world are the so-called 'Reddit refugees'. I've noticed a large portion of them tend to be liberals (as in neoliberals) from the United States and accordingly think of anything left of center as "radical/extreme leftism". A few weeks back, they were all agitated over some leftist strawmen a few of their more vocal members have been fabricating to gripe about. This is likely just a continuation of the same.

You son of a bitch, I'm in.

Oh no, we've discovered the under gravel filter!

Black sheep of the family

Haha, noooo. I gave anime a whirl.