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RRVonse reacted to Loren Pechtel's post in the thread Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than the rest of America's taxpayers, new study finds with
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RRVonse reacted to Loren Pechtel's post in the thread Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than the rest of America's taxpayers, new study finds with Like.
Yeah, the gas tax is quite unfair. Per-mile actually is a reasonable component of it as there's an inherent cost to have roads apart...
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RRVonse reacted to Bomb#20's post in the thread Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than the rest of America's taxpayers, new study finds with Like.
To explain by analogy why the idea lacks merit. If you bought a condo in 2006 for $100,000, and sold it in 2025 for $170,000, the...
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RRVonse reacted to Derec's post in the thread Affirmative Action (split from Are people already regretting their choice?) with Like.
Never said that. Never said that either. But Biden practiced racial discrimination with his choice of judges. A lot of the "culture...
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RRVonse reacted to Derec's post in the thread Affirmative Action (split from Are people already regretting their choice?) with Like.
Sex-based preference are of course wrong too. I did mention "people whose ancestors spoke Spanish" explicitly. You are right. There are...
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RRVonse reacted to Harry Bosch's post in the thread Affirmative Action (split from Are people already regretting their choice?) with Like.
It doesn't cover Asians. Works against Asians. I'll get in trouble for saying this, but I do think that everyone should be treated...
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RRVonse reacted to Harry Bosch's post in the thread Affirmative Action (split from Are people already regretting their choice?) with Like.
Totally agree, hence my earlier confusion. I don't think that it cost us the election. But I think that the dems lost because the...
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RRVonse reacted to Loren Pechtel's post in the thread Affirmative Action (split from Are people already regretting their choice?) with Like.
We know what triggered it, that's not the same as knowing what's sustaining it. Look at what Toni said about rural America and...
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RRVonse reacted to Loren Pechtel's post in the thread Affirmative Action (split from Are people already regretting their choice?) with Like.
The problem with this is that most people receive no meaningful inheritance. It isn't passed down, other than in attitudes and...
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RRVonse reacted to Derec's post in the thread Affirmative Action (split from Are people already regretting their choice?) with Like.
Yeah, that is a very common metaphor used by proponents of racial preferences. It only works if you assume that black people...
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RRVonse reacted to ZiprHead's post in the thread Affirmative Action (split from Are people already regretting their choice?) with Like.
Won't happen until we get the money part of Citizens United overturned.
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RRVonse reacted to Loren Pechtel's post in the thread Affirmative Action (split from Are people already regretting their choice?) with Like.
Think of the post a while back comparing equality and equity. "Equity" amounts to disparate outcomes is proof of discrimination. But...
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RRVonse reacted to Loren Pechtel's post in the thread Affirmative Action (split from Are people already regretting their choice?) with Like.
The problem is that you envision it as a race. No, it's a bunch of races. It's being run over and over and over (each race is between...
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RRVonse reacted to Loren Pechtel's post in the thread Affirmative Action (split from Are people already regretting their choice?) with Like.
You think I disagree with any of that?? But here we differ in the order. You are right that it's not a proper analysis, but you have...
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RRVonse reacted to Loren Pechtel's post in the thread Affirmative Action (split from Are people already regretting their choice?) with Like.
And herein we see the problem. I'm looking for fixing the problem, not placing blame. The intended function was breaking the cycle of...
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