- Winnipeggers can't f'ing merge! 1/4mile clear merge lane on Kenaston & guy from Maple Leaf Construction insists on… https://t.co/QDH9ONsbJ2 09:27:40, 2022-05-27
- @TheTorqueMag Seems like yesterday "default" was the default theme. in reply to TheTorqueMag 09:30:41, 2022-05-27
- Talk about income inequality and the problem of wealth distribution is seen by the right as a communist-style legal… https://t.co/qQWzIKVXDd 14:33:01, 2022-05-28
- Those on the right who are pro-wealth hear in the rhetoric of the left that their gains need to be "taken away" and… https://t.co/6o7mSrHrmP in reply to toderash 14:33:02, 2022-05-28
- It's not unreasonable on their part to want to hold onto what they've attained: in this respect, nobody wants to "l… https://t.co/0J90QGNTys in reply to toderash 14:33:03, 2022-05-28
- Therefore, the right favours policies that help individuals rather than groups. In this view, things are made globa… https://t.co/X0tXOLx6uO in reply to toderash 14:33:04, 2022-05-28
- Two problems here are that (1) no man is an island, and the self-made man has always been a naive myth that fails t… https://t.co/DFTXfmyVLI in reply to toderash 14:33:04, 2022-05-28
- (2) groups are made up of individuals, so at its most basic level, helping a group is simply assisting multiple ind… https://t.co/iLGNWpMnPr in reply to toderash 14:33:05, 2022-05-28
- Now in contrast, those on the left want to improve conditions globally by improving things with policy that assists… https://t.co/fj0qQEASTL in reply to toderash 14:33:06, 2022-05-28
- The right largely sees this attempt as organizing handouts from individuals to groups (see tweet #2). They would pr… https://t.co/VB3rrZ9hI7 in reply to toderash 14:33:06, 2022-05-28
- The left will observe that charity doesn't really address the issue, and in this they are correct.
Impasse?
No ma… https://t.co/yKZAd1wwEt in reply to toderash 14:33:07, 2022-05-28
- Robin Hood is remediation. A one-time wealth tax is remediation. Wealth redistribution through taxation is, general… https://t.co/oP4x92OxJr in reply to toderash 14:33:08, 2022-05-28
- Yes, taxation is ongoing, but in practice it's more akin to a recurring short-term solution: repeated remediation.… https://t.co/EaYWlcKDc0 in reply to toderash 14:33:09, 2022-05-28
- Where am I going with this? I'm saying the problem needs to be restated. What if the fundamental problem isn't that… https://t.co/CdOWcPgtxu in reply to toderash 14:33:10, 2022-05-28
- What if the problem is the fact that it's much easier to move from "upper-middle-class" to "wealthy", or wealthy to… https://t.co/k4RnM4eleG in reply to toderash 14:33:11, 2022-05-28
- This is the problem of income distribution. It's not that some people are less willing to work, it's that systemica… https://t.co/RC3nZrH2VQ in reply to toderash 14:33:11, 2022-05-28
- The fact that it takes more actual dollars to go from well-off to rich than it does to go from poverty to getting-b… https://t.co/Uum98OQhsR in reply to toderash 14:33:12, 2022-05-28
- Aside 1: wrt willingness to work, consider the phrase "passive income", to whom it's important, and why.
Aside 2:… https://t.co/lqcxLhsxT5 in reply to toderash 14:33:13, 2022-05-28
- What we're in need of is systemic change that makes things better for groups of individuals to become more upwardly… https://t.co/7C1h3GJrQJ in reply to toderash 14:33:13, 2022-05-28
- What we need are solutions that address individual needs without group-focused generalizations of how the solution… https://t.co/IZ13oRqgYy in reply to toderash 14:33:14, 2022-05-28
- When funded through taxation (considering that to be an inevitable starting point), the cost of these solutions wil… https://t.co/c39JEyY9wM in reply to toderash 14:33:15, 2022-05-28
- …than the rate on "less than enough" earnings. This is largely because it's easier to "move up" using those earni… https://t.co/STgbE8PXNZ in reply to toderash 14:33:16, 2022-05-28
- "Handouts" & charity are not and will never be designed to provide people with any extras to help them improve thei… https://t.co/vppS3bE2Pm in reply to toderash 14:33:16, 2022-05-28
- These solutions are not systemic, they're situational remediation. These are the ones the right hates to fund becau… https://t.co/P8MzkXY9rD in reply to toderash 14:33:17, 2022-05-28
- If the right could view systemic solutions as ones that over time would reduce the societal (and individual) cost o… https://t.co/fcDNYOgmSm in reply to toderash 14:33:17, 2022-05-28
- And finally, examples of policies worth exploring that could potentially meet these objectives:
– free tuition and/… https://t.co/vVuMcGl3pT in reply to toderash 14:33:20, 2022-05-28 - …
– minimum wage is a livable wage
– reduced bureaucracy in program qualification
– reduce/remove program clawbac… https://t.co/Q2vb9CpmDL in reply to toderash 14:33:20, 2022-05-28 - @JenHanson8 @ianmcc My thoughts exactly. I started reading and getting ready to rip it to shreds and I just couldn'… https://t.co/ETB0Vk7eCi in reply to JenHanson8 12:57:23, 2022-05-29
- RT @EliasCepeda: https://t.co/jfrxbstmYi 13:14:52, 2022-05-29
- @CBCSamSamson @jbrowaty @ScottGillingham With me, this will likely have the opposite effect of what they're hoping… https://t.co/euhf1xTYl8 in reply to CBCSamSamson 11:38:45, 2022-05-30
- Does anyone bother to distill the NRA's argument down to the fact they want to carry guns in case they need to shoo… https://t.co/D7XXHWbfkH 16:24:20, 2022-05-30
- @kentonlarsen @KateBushMusic Solid recommendation. in reply to kentonlarsen 19:28:02, 2022-05-30
- @fourfoldway Wordle 345 3/6
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- Anyone else ever had to deal with a DOS (Denial Of Service) attack from a client? By which I mean they flood you wi… https://t.co/zQxFAGAPgj 14:54:15, 2022-05-31
- Her piece needs to go viral for it's appalling truth. https://t.co/77cGI5lsXS https://t.co/2ksV92l98b 15:11:33, 2022-05-31
- @christellar @jfistacuffs Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness in reply to christellar 22:52:45, 2022-05-31
- FINALLY, first day sitting on my patio to work today. Freaking June 1st! 13:19:50, 2022-06-01
- Can Johnny Depp and all the rest of us who weren't following all get back to our lives now? 14:49:30, 2022-06-01
- @Ipstenu my phone camera died, and this makes so much sense now! need new Pride-friendly phone. in reply to Ipstenu 15:01:17, 2022-06-01
Coup d'Oeil
No box. Just thinking.
