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The yucky, yellowish grass in the Oakland Coliseum is plain proof of how much multi-purpose stadiums just don't work. The A's need their own facility, and not one that's slowly failing.
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*Heh* Well, it's been a while since I logged in.
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Cynthia Nixon never held a political office before, but between her decades-long political activism, clean capital record, and continual proof of having the big, bold ideas to clean up Albany, not taking any corporate PAC money, and improve New Yorkers' lives thousandfold, she's EASILY more qualified to be NY governor than the heinously corrupt Andrew Cuomo!
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The U.S. is super-rich, but we give massive amounts of dough to the military, for-profit wars, banks, and the 1%, when the rich can be taxed and the money shuffled by the government can be allocated to:
- combat poverty,
- tuition-free public college,
- rebuild Puerto Rico (and cancel its debt),
- single-payer medicare for all,
- weed legalization,
- nationwide living wage.
Because of this, the phrase "How do you pay for *insert human rights program*?" should never be asked in American politics again.
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Taxing the rich is a BAD IDEA. http://www.inflationomics.com/article.php?article=Four Problems with Taxing the Rich
https://www.commondreams.org/.../10-reasons-not-tax-rich-and-why-theyre-all-bad This article makes even better cases.
Sorry I'm not an economics expert or anything, it's a really complex subject. However I know I've read over and over again that taxing the rich is not the solution. Your ideas are good and all. Here's one more article with pros and cons. https://toughnickel.com/industries/Should-we-tax-the-rich-more-pros-and-cons
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Sometimes I wonder how much these kinds of things would pay for themselves if certain corporations stopped dodging taxes entirely. It's an interesting outlier in the "tax the rich" strategy that doesn't seem to get covered much for some reason.
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thing is it'll never happen
like
ever
it's innate to our human conciousness and it will never change because humans, despite there being many good people in this world, are naturally assholes
the only way things will change for the better is alien invasion or some other outside threat to force us to join together because otherwise I can never see all the change people want to happen
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While armchair neoliberals continue to bitch and moan at Susan Sarandon, she's out there actually resisting Trump (and getting arrested for it).
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Susan Sarandon is SO influential over the hundreds of celebrities and tabloids that endorsed Clinton that people still smear her as the reason Trump won the presidency. */sarcasm*
Here's a protip: If you truly believe that ONE celebrity is that responsible for costing her millions of votes, then Clinton's not as good a presidential candidate as you make her out to be.
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Conor McGregor is a fucking moron.
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With his 3,055th hit today, Adrian Beltre passes Rod Carew for the most ever by a Latin-born ballplayer. The continuation of an amazing career.