I can feel this and it’s making me squirm. TIHI.

The NYT did a deep dive on the family finances. The only thing they were brilliant at was grift and dodging taxes. Nothing has changed because of it, they were thieves and liars back then and thieves and liars today. They are also brilliant at obfuscating all their activities, so well played, I guess?

Here: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/top-five-bombshells-from-new-york-times-expose-on-trump-family-tax-dodging/

Honestly it looks like a lot of fun. People get really into it, maybe even because it’s kinda silly.

“While having sex” was the add-on phrase we used.

Lol, couple letters short there, my friend: “bourgeoisie” 😁

Close enough

They aren’t mercenaries if they’re not paid. The pont of being a mercenary is you get paid to fight for a country/cause not your own. If you’re not paid, that’s impressment.

15 years ago such a statement would have been unthinkable. Look where we are now and how fast we’ve gotten there. The repubicans went apeshit over a tan suit, but this? They sit on their hands.

Doesn’t matter who they run at this point. They just keep running candidates that are safe neo-libs that will legalize pot and let you paint rainbow crosswalks while still bending a knee to their corporate overlords.

I grew up under Old Conservatism. The one that still kinda made sense. The one you could still discuss issues with. They wanted the same things you did, just how you got them was the difference. I guess I was a Conservative, though I definitely remember having early awareness of some of the issues with it. It took some years and a lot of growing up before all the hypocrisy, racism, shitty economic policy, misogyny and all the rest soaked in. Sort of a convergence of my awareness increasing along with the mask coming off of Republicans. My parents are/were rabid republicans; racist, fearful, stingy in that welfare- and homeless-hating way, fine with the violence against peaceful protests, etc. Nothing dissuades from voting Republican.

Thing is, I could actually still be a republican IF they actually did what they said they stood for. Fiscal conservative, keep government out of people’s personal lives, smaller government, “real” christian values, take care of the small towns and little people, etc. But that’s not who they are. The exact opposite of everything they claim to be. Even now the Democrats are republican-lite and too far Right for me, they just give us bread and circuses arguing over rainbow crosswalks while losing every important real policy battle that prevents the slide into fascism.

You think people working at a multibillion dollar grocery chain give a crap about your 14¢ round-up? It’s implied this is not some “family owned” small store.

Do you think anyone keeps grocery receipts at tax time to claim the $5 write off over the year with 30 receipt’s worth of round-ups?

The meme is essentially true. A big corp is asking a nobody who is probably trying to save some cash to give a billion dollar operation money so the Big Corp gets the brownie points for the donation. They don’t give a shit about you other than “Big Grocer & ‘customers’” donate $$$.

The only two points you made that I agree with are “just say no” if you don’t want to, and donate if you like the good feels. Just make sure Big Grocery is donating to a charity that is decent and doesn’t soak up most of the $ in admin costs.

She’s got a big hand herself.

Yeah, that’s the numbers. But I mean the people themselves. Hauled off to a front where their equivalent number and more die every month to the tune of a modest village-worth every month. Are the Russian people so defeated and/or ignorant that they just turn a blind eye and wait for the press gang to take the men in their village?

I don’t think you know what a difficult situation that is. Getting rid of things for money is hard, and believe it or not, even donating things can be difficult. If you hire someone they’re going to pick through everything over several days (depending on the amount of stuff) and probably not take much if they have to store it themselves for sale, or charge you for storage rental if it’s a lot, and things don’t sell quickly or maybe not at all. Places taking donations will only accept certain things any more, we know this from personal experience, they only want stuff they know that will sell. Even shelters won’t accept a lot of stuff. So you’re left carting around a (probably rented) truck-full of stuff trying to find anyone that will take it only to wind up bringing a lot back home.

It’s far easier to rent a haul-away waste bin and do a cleanout in a day.

One last option, depending on the country if they allow it or there’s space to do so, is a “curb alert”. Advertise the cleanout on whatever social media or classified ad and state the kind of items available and just put them on the curb for people to take for free. Whatever’s left at the end of the day goes in the bin to be hauled off.

Over 30,000 killed in a month. How does Russia sustain this? That’s wiping out a good sized town of people every couple months at that rate. I mean, that’s wiping out the entire town I grew up in. Everyone. In a couple months.

Right? What’d he do? I think his acting has improved with age rather than relying only on his pretty-boy good looks from his earlier films like River or Joe Black.

Edit: I found some issues with his family and divorce, looks like he was a drunk asshole a couple years ago.

Like 34% of the country are bots. They just do what they’re programmed to do.

Even things like what you used to be able to find on Hiren’s Boot CD could be called “illegal” by the less knowledgeable. Software like Wire Shark. They’re just tools.

Conformity is everything, and I bet they still say shitty things about each other under their breath.

I start from the bottom up, with the one star ratings. Sometimes a lower rating may be because of a shipping error or something silly like a person not liking the color. The ones that I find most concerning are the DoA products, ones that break quickly or have some other flaw that affects usability. Then move up to the two and three star reviews. If a product has enough of the mentioned issues then it may not be worth digging further.