TruthTrumpet

271 pts · July 10, 2021


Never heard of extraterritorial
jurisdiction? Again, hearings in the NY Federal circuit were held in the Biden era. Others have actually been extradited when they left Venezuela from the same hearing. So spare us all of the outrage you didn’t care about till now. If there is an angle to bitch about it's involving mil assets to invade another country to get someone who did the US wrong. And it's a valid concern. But I just don't remember the same self righteous pearl clutching when Obama did it

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

That source doesn’t say what you did. Your original claim was that the state “allowed” the action. The state actually prosecuted the guy and took him to trial. No plea bargaining or lessening of the charge. A jury acquitted him. Especially without knowing the full nuance of the defense claims, it seems a stretch to make it sound like the government of the state of Texas sanctioned it.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Marginal rates were that high, but there also were a LOT more deductions. When they crashed the rates but removed the deductions, it was actually called one of the largest peacetime tax increases in history. Even now, the effective tax rate (what’s actually paid), is only a couple % higher than present.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

You have a link for this? I know solar panels absorb energy outside of the visible spectrum but a huge portion of their function is within it. I find it hard to believe that the efficiency boost from moderately cooler temps (a cloudy day is worth what...5-10 degrees on average?) overcomes losing roughly half of the EM spectrum panels use.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Negative. Just because you disagree with a given call doesn't mean they procedurally were wrong. Plenty of pro choice advocates have said similar things about the legality of RVW, expressing the same angle used in the overturn. Hell, it almost cost RBG her seat in the court.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 11

Nah. Triggers aren’t assembled till deployment for just that reason.

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Well the guy *was* deemed not a good fit for there.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is that a ytmnd link?! THE ANCIENT TEXTS!

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Why are you omitting the exception actually brought up in court? That the law only applied to weapons with a barrel shorter than a given length. When the prosecution admitted it was compliant with the exception, it was dropped.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

You might not have understood what I wrote above, but that's exactly what I said: offering the food on the service costs more. Therefore it has a higher price. Restaurants work on a tight COGS model and the fee disrupts it. It would be closer to gouging to charge the increased price on everything, not just the service incurring the increased cost to provide. Isolating the higher prices to the higher costing model is about as far from gouging as you can get.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I feel like folks here have completely abandoned what "gouging" means and just apply it to any price they don't like.
Dealing with theft is a legitimate business cost. Dealing with increases expenses is a legit business cost. Most of the places you are thinking of don't have the margin to just "eat it." Increasing all their prices because of Uber/DD would be closer to gouging than limiting the increased prices to only the service with increased costs.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

No shit. “Omg you couldn’t safely stop in time because of a stationary risk on side of the road. It’s obviously the other guys fault. It’s certainly not me driving too fast or too inattentive for the conditions. And the consequences of this lesson being solely skidding in the road not hitting anything is complete bullshit and unacceptable.”

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Plot twist: rescuers arrived by yacht.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What an absurd, long winded, and self absorbed little pontification considering he was clearly speaking to Pally01’s comment, not yours.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I mean I totally understand why you wouldn’t accept it as truth and internalize it on your end. But to automatically spin it as false implies a pretty strong bias on your end, and not one even looking objectively at facts.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

You comment comes awfully fucking close to the cops, “we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing,” especially when you immediately and automatically claim direct experiences by the person to be a “false claim”. “No no, you are registered to vote and was done so legitimately because you are in our system sir. Literally no other explanation for it. Nope”

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

No one was taxed at those rates…..deductions lowered it to an effective rate less than half that. When they lowered the rates, they removed the detections, but the actual effective rate of pay hasn’t really changed.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1