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About 15k

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When you said you didn’t have to report, I thought you meant it was under that $600 or whatever threshold where it’s required to issue a 1099, even though you’re still expected to report it.

But in what world do you not have to report $15k? Was it a mistake or something?

I can’t ever tell if he’s trolling or sincere, but this is par for the course for Sam for years. And I’m pretty sure he’s popped up on here a few times over the years for his hyperbole.

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what a loser

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The Constitution was written by and for winners.

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from the lens of previous Superman movies and a serious tone, it sucked.

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I mean besides the first couple Superman films, most are average to outright bad. I mean Superman 4 was so bad, they didn’t make another one for nearly 20 years (after 4 in less than 10 years). And regarding a serious tone, is that even a Superman thing, other than maybe MOS? I mean does it get less serious than this poster from Superman 3, with Superman carrying Richard Pryor? And compared to Superman 4, this was well received (31% on RT vs. 14%; 5.0 on IMDB vs. 3.7).

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but Forbes guy called it "refreshingly political", which for him means"anti-GOP" (he is a far left socialist guy)

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Huh? I couldn’t find anything about it being political from the only Forbes review on Rottentomatoes.

Not only that, but people will often shoehorn politics into things when there are at best unintended parallels, but at worst, just imaginary. And I think this is more true with more political “extremists.”

And the far left is really bad at this. Like I’m not sure how many times I’ve seen tankers on twitter act like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises are far right films because of the “mass surveillance” in TDK even though it’s pretty clearly showing the moral quandary with Lucious explicitly saying that it’s wrong.

TDKR is even more laughable because they think the “police” being the good guys makes it far right, and because Bane attacks the stock exchange and they think that was an intentional parallel to Occupy Wall Street because those protests started around the same time. Never mind that The League of Shadows, has more parallels to Islamist Extremists (even without being explicitly religious) than those cosplaying revolutionaries.

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I'm still on the boat that this is largely theater, usually is when anything political is done this loudly, but it is 100% entertaining to watch the shitfest.

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Sure. But this is more like the real housewives. They got on the show partially due to their wealth, partially due to their flair for the dramatic, and partially due to their need for attention. Not completely real, but not completely fake either.

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While funny watching this shite show live, Elon isn’t really putting forth anything new there.

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No.It’s not new, and what makes this interesting, isn’t whether it’s new information or even true, it’s that they went from BFFs, to having some normal police disagreements, to accusations about suppressing information about one’s relation with a sex trafficker, very quickly.

I figured they would have a falling out eventually, as so often is the case with Trump (and Elon to a lesser degree though), I just didn’t expect it to get to this point so quickly.

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Lies. Ive never heard once the administration state this is their plan.

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Their proposals are to increase the deficit substantially, not only above baseline, but they were even significantly above Kamala’s. So they can say or not say whatever they want, but admin and their GOP allies in congress have laid out proposals that show a large increase in the deficit.

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The President has said hed sign a balanced budget bill. There is a GOP majority Congress...I wonder why this hasnt happened

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This is obviously never going to happen unless they commit to both large tax increases and large spending decreases. Very few, if any, are even willing to pretend that they’ll do both, and even fewer would ever do it. So if you believe anyone who advocates for a balanced budget isn’t willing to do what is necessary, then you clearly rather base reality on dishonest fantasies, than even an honest fantasy, let alone an honest reality.

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If the current model(print money, distribute it, and buy everything from overseas) is so great, why were we wrecked by inflation and why are we at unsustainable levels of debt? Why would we assume that this can be maintained forever?

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It may be a bad model, but right now the plan is to retain the worst of the model and expand it (large deficit expansion) and somehow make it even worse (tariffs). So even if we don’t know how to fix it, trying things that we know are going to only make it worse doesn’t somehow make sense because they’re doing “something.” That’s the same logic progressives use.

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This is so AWESOME

These guys are friggin legendary!!!

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I honestly can’t see how these dudes are anything but losers as pranksters whose goal is cruelty typically are. This actually made Sanders sympathetic, even if he was otherwise reaping what he sowed.