Sure, plucky revolutionary spirit? The American Revolution was lead by business leaders who wanted to control the colony. They used propaganda, assassination, bombings, etc. and turned colonists against each other.

It was a country created out of a lie that went on to commit some of the worst atrocities known to man. George Washington, our first President, was on his way to becoming the world’s first billionaire adjusted for inflation. He would have gotten there if he didn’t die in his sixties

The constitution, democracy, and liberalism are all part of a masterful propaganda campaign used to convince US citizens (and apparently foreigners) that there is something more to the US other than naked power (hint: there isn’t).

This is not “our” tyrannical government, it is owned by the wealthy who have always called the shots and controlled all the policy. The people historically, even if they band together and demonstrate, have had almost no effect on the death machine that is the US.

I assure you we have been laying down our lives. Just between gun deaths and overdoses we are losing 100,000 + preventable deaths every year. Apparently keeping minorities down and profits are far more important than our lives.

It is not just us either US sanctions have cost the world about 500,000 people a year for the last 50 years. Let that sink in. We have caused the death of 25 million people just because we don’t like the policies of other countries.

There is no saving the US. There is no saving the rest of the fascist world either. We could incrementally fix things and change for the better. There is always hope of course, but the reality is unless you are mega wealthy your voice will never be heard.

I wish the rest of the world could take a hint, but the income inequality grows in every country and fascism dominates every facet of our lives.

He said he called and spoke with petroleum companies. I know his mind is mush, but he basically said he consulted with private oil corporations about this attack but didn’t tell Congress.

The fact that every representative isn’t drawing up impeachment articles right now speaks volumes about the corruption that is allowing this to happen.

Finally something they can be number one at!

In a sane world of course not. We don’t live in a sane world though. Hell, a country like Israel has nuclear weapons. That is the equivalent of a wolverine with rabies.

This was the whole point of nuclear disarmament. We can’t trust human beings.

Fascism is everywhere now, there is no escape anymore. Every country has already been bought. The wealthy won and people still worship money because they don’t know better. There is exactly zero awareness to this fact of life.

As long as wealth gaps and classism exists we are going to be stuck here.

For real, if anyone deserved to be abducted it would be Kimmy Boy. Could you imagine the crocodile tears that mammas boy would produce. Would be worth every penny to see that monster break down.

I like this, since their country can’t seem to prosecute them it is up to other countries!

Can we start kidnapping every criminal leader and putting them on trial? Also, can we do previous leaders as well. There should be a cell ready for every previous POTUS.

That is the best part, it doesn’t.

The will of the people, lol

AKA what propaganda they have been spoon fed their whole life you mean…

Naw, dropped a bunch of bombs, murdered a bunch of people, and kidnapped a leader.

If you believe this drivel I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. What you say is in the correct spirit, but your assumptions are way off.

The US will likely take the whole world with it. They have already poisoned the entire earth several times and are responsible for global warming.

Like an abusive murderous partner their is no escape for the world. It is truly horrible.

You should see how awful the translations into Spanish are. They make him sound coherent and intelligent when he is literally rambling about nothing.

The author cherry picked two professions and used irrelevant statistics combined with a profound misunderstanding of DEI to come to a bullshit conclusion.

Just admit it, you have probably never had a DEI training. I have had over ten and I could teach one at this point. The content’s recommendations are so boring and benign it ain’t funny. You and the author want to create a narrative that doesn’t exist. The facts don’t support it.

You know how many fields men dominate in? You are telling me because press room floors are hiring slightly more women and that in a particular university there just happens to be no tenured male white professor that we are in a crisis!?

What if it is all fucking black college, what if the press room floor is for a all female news agency. There is no discrimination going on. It is all legal.

So what if a few corporations decided to hire a few more minorities and women because of DEI. This is not the source of this man’s problems. I will not be lectured about made up grievances.

I am sorry, but the author must think we are fucking idiots willing to listen to what amounts to be misogyny cloaked in anti-feminism garbage.

Now your bringing up immigrants. It is always someone else’s problem is it not. Acting so fucking dumb.

Tankies, supposedly antifascists, support fascist regimes in China and Russia. It’s like they haven’t opened their eyes in the last several decades and are stuck back in the cold war.

Always is. Always was.

You can always tell someone who doesn’t know what they are talking about. First, there was no illegal discrimination. In fact, according to existing policies the Federal Government and all government contractors cannot create quotas or have any preference in hiring. It is straight up illegal.

Now we can talk about the private sector. They can hire whoever they fucking want. Chick-fil-A won’t hire or allow openly gay managers/administrators/owners. Likewise some women’s only shelter, who are also private but nonprofit, won’t hire male workers for certain roles. This is completely legal.

The victim is minorities and women who are being singled out because DEI dictates and certain companies choose to give them a chance. It is their fault for “stealing” a job away from a white male. Do you understand how bombastically stupid this is?

I think you don’t understand the law or DEI just like the author who desperately wants to blame someone else for his inability to prepare his child for the job market.

There are tons of jobs and tons of companies ran by man-o-sphere assholes who only hire white males. The number of companies that openly give preference to white males without explicitly saying so dwarf companies willing to give minorities and women a shot.

If DEI works so well how come women make up less than 30% of upper management but yet comprise of 47% of the work force. Even worse CEO are only 10% women. Where is this avalanche of control DEI has given women and minorities?

It doesn’t exist, In fact DEI barely moved the needle for minorities and is only responsible for a small amount of women placed in roles they were eligible for but looked over. The best criticism is DEI didn’t really work not that our sons can suddenly find no jobs.

As a hiring manager who has hired hundreds of people in the private, nonprofit, and government sector I can confidently say the author is full of shit.

He should be very scared. He has taken advantage of the government in ways we would never had dreamed possible before. He managed to eliminate all his threats and ensure his contracts and permits are upheld. Massive corruption is an understatement.

Originally it was just a really high tax rate at the highest bracket. This accounted for a monetary system that is essentially gamed. In the US the government reversed this under the theory of trickle down economics. This allowed a large group of people to greatly grow their investments and their wealth accordingly.

Inheritance tax is used to recoup some of these lost taxes but it is a poor way to do it. The correction should be at the beginning not the end. I agree with you.

You can certainly exempt things like a primary residence and allow grace periods to sell off inheritance to pay the taxes.

Taxing anything over $10 million of worth at an effective 100% puts a cap on your total worth. This is completely possible, but obviously would be extremely unpopular amongst all wealthy people.

Everyone would still pay other taxes, but I have a feeling that it would no longer be necessary considering how much money a policy like this thought exercise would generate.

Nothing you say is untrue. That is why I said total worth. You would of course make sure the policy specifically includes stock as this total worth. They would be forced to cash out to keep it under the allowable amount.

Not saying this is possible in our current political climate, but it is definitely possible to tax the wealthy. You just have to create the policy and enforce it. Close all the loopholes, prevent things like trusts or shell corporations to hide wealth, and aggressively police unrealized gains.