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Feel free to donate to the charity of your choosing then. Forcing citizens to donate to only state approved movements seems coercive.

Didn't that drive the 1950 & 1960s in the USA? Taxing the rich and giving to the working class to build bridges, schools, GI homes, ... Isn't that classified as the most stable economy in their history? The only decades where the stock market was stable?

How do you know your taxes are not going where they should? Do you wish for them not to be used to help the sick, the poor, and the vulnerable?

Was DARPA's tax payer investment in ARPNET worth it or DOD with GPS?

I'm not saying there is abuse in the system, any should be found and dealt with. Nor saying spending should stays the same, money needs to move improve the health, well-being and wealth of non-rich.


The biggest boom and gains in the US arguably happened after the Civil War and before WW1, during which federal tax burden was something like 2% and there was no income tax.

Not on a per-capita basis. Real GDP growth per-capita rose 2.2x* between 1866-1913. That's smaller than say, the period starting after WW2, 1946-1993 which as 2.5x.

Even post-WW1 1919-1966, it went up by roughly the same as post-civil war, 2.2x - and that period includes a depression and heavy income taxes.

Given how much easier it is to double a small economy than a large one, the fact post-WW2 period beat it is doubly impressive.

Also one should note there was actually an income tax from 1861-1872.

* Using Maddison Project estimates of real GDP


You think it was our social investments that brought us wealth in the 50s and 60s and not our massive military spending winning a world war which destroyed every other advanced economy?

id like to stop paying into the US military thank you very much. move it to be a charity, as intended by the founders.

why the state sponsored militia, when i could be contributing to some other militia?


Fasting for prolonged periods has been found to help on both cancer discovery and during chemo.


Writing a wrapper is easier to verify because of the context of the API or SDK you're wrapping. Seems wrong? Check the docs. Doesn't work? Curl it yourself.


Stories of harassment and assaults? Provide one source for any assault.


Glad you asked.

* Pushing a reporter live on air: https://x.com/mylenecrete/status/1494874304814751744

* Beating a counter-protestor on camera: https://x.com/timabray/status/1488231660260839430?t=Bx4fGVxR...

* Attacking a shop employee for masking up on their way to work: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=23006638534070...

* Smashing windows of a business with a Pride flag: https://imgur.com/a/80bmPQ8

* Trying to handcuff shut the doors of an apartment building: https://x.com/gray_mackenzie/status/1492705868697198593

* Encouraging harassment of the lawyer leading the class action lawsuit against them: https://www.facebook.com/groups/217129079397701/permalink/62...

* Threatening public officials: https://www.ottawapolice.ca/Modules/News/index.aspx?newsId=7...

* Spamming emergency services so they could not be used: https://x.com/OttawaPolice/status/1491788988654383115

* Harassing children at an elementary school: https://pressprogress.ca/elementary-school-students-and-teac...

* Bomb threats against a children's hospital: https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/cheo-targeted-by-bomb-threat-monda...

* Pelting ambulances with rocks: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ambulances-pelted-...

These are just the things that were recorded, reported on, and archived with the links functioning three years later. Scroll up and you can read about what many of us saw in person. And yes, there's more where that came from. But it's much better to read from people who live in Ottawa and want to share their experiences: https://www.opc-cpo.ca/


Thanks for the list! I can say that three of the stories I was referring to above are the ones listed as "Attacking a shop employee for masking up on their way to work", "Smashing windows of a business with a Pride flag" and "Trying to handcuff shut the doors of an apartment building".

The first and second happened only a couple blocks away from us, and we frequented both businesses, so it was infuriating to see them and their employers attacked like that. We lived in an apartment building so the third one was pretty alarming.


Thanks for the evidence.


Most of these are from the mainstream media. How about the truckers side of the story for each incident? For all you know it could be staged.


Fun game. Thanks for making me feel like I'm getting smarter while on the can.


It's Merry Christmas.


Christmas ended a couple of days ago.


My reason for saying happy holidays is because I don't really have a specific thing I celebrate, I simply take vacation during all of December and don't like being in the cold. That's a holiday for me.


DivestOS was a good ROM that combined the functionality of LineageOS with security of graphreem. It will be missed.


2001 was definitely the FF7 year. Played all 3 discs during the winter break.


Having the extended family over and the boys would all be playing outside until the street lights came on, and then inside to play whatever game came out. Clay fighter, mortal kombat, donkey kong country etc.

My family would pull straws to see which man would dress up as Santa clause and go door to door on my street to greet kids and give the adults some baileys or whiskey.

Great times. Merry Christmas.


Unbelievably sad for our neighbors up north.


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