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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

No big profit from soldiers. Lots of profit from weapons contracts

 

In particular:

  • Republicans indicate in the budget blueprint that they plan to use an accounting method to score the cost of permanently extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts at $0, after it was estimated to cost $4.6 trillion in a letter Thursday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation.
  • The plan allows for an additional $1.5 trillion in tax cuts on top of that
  • The budget plan also paves the way for $175 billion in new funding for immigration enforcement to carry out mass deportation
  • $150 billion increase to military spending (a ~18% increase)
 

Title & subtitle from the article version of this newsletter; linking the newsletter version above because it's not paywalled.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 15 hours ago

Reset your browser and/or device. Then click the link

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Except that it's not. If you've got Javascript turned on and don't run a browser extension which strips off the access token from the URL, you have free access for the next couple weeks.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They don't dye in the same way eggs do

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 15 points 22 hours ago

I don't think it's that, so much as that the other countries (and uninhabited islands) didn't have much in the way of tariffs, and there wasn't any reason to impose an import tax, so they came up with a nonsense calculation.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It doesn't really matter; the damage is being done by a bunch of teens and early-20s folks whom Musk recruited off the nazi group chat, and whose career prospects depend on his patronage. Whether he's officially involved or not, Musk’s whim determines what this group actually does.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

A lot of these accusations are a confession of intent to commit a crime.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sadly not. Same people pushing the same thing again, but lying about it being a cancer cure as well now

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Definitely, but Schumer pushed enough Democrats to side with the Republicans on a vote to end debate that they had the 60-vote supermajority needed to do so.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah. There are some gangs (eg: Police gangs in Los Angeles) which do use tattoos to identify themselves, but not all gangs do so, and most tattoos are not gang-related.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 73 points 3 days ago (4 children)

And the excuses were really thin. Among other things:

  • Tattoos of crowns and clocks
  • “I love you” symbol in sign language,
  • being in the same area as a law enforcement target
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