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Capital gains are income from selling an investment. It's not a tax on the increase in value of an asset while you maintain ownership; it's a tax on the income you make when you sell the asset. Before capital gains tax became a separate thing, capital gains were simply taxed the same as other...

You will note that I make no argument as to what the capital gains tax rate should be. I'm familiar with the concept of the Laffer Curve, and I'm not an economist so I don't venture any particular opinion on what the optimum should be, especially not without having any look at the numbers. I...

For context, the highest historical capital gains tax rate was 35% for individuals throughout the 1970s, and 35% for corporations from 1993 to 2017. It was also 30% for corporations from 1975 to 1979. In 2018 the corporate capital gains rate was reduced to 21%, while individual capital gains...

Uh, no. Capitalism is defined as an economic system in which the means of production are primarily or entirely under private ownership and operation for profit. Free market or laissez-faire, is one form of capitalism and is considered by many to be the most desirable and/or most efficient form...

I don't think corporations are on anyone's side but that of profits. Capitalism even says that's *supposed to be* how it is.

She is aggressively anti-Islam and anti-China, and favors authoritarian measures to suppress opinions in their favor.

Jacqui Lambie is very much *not* leftist; she's an Australian independent politician. Very extreme views, but in many ways a scatter-pack of hard left and hard right. For example, in October 2016 she called for preemptively pardoning anyone accused of war crimes against the Taliban or the...

With an animated show there's a lot of work that the creator does to actually create the work in question, which creates a clear line between "content creation" and "content publication". With a subreddit, there isn't such a clear line given that the content creation is inherent to the platform.

Trying to independently monetize a subbreddit *is* one of the things Reddit does consistently enforce, so his claim on those grounds is shaky at best. The other issue of him attempting to trademark "WallStreetBets" is pretty mucch going to ride completely on whether he can make a viable argument...

Yes. "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." This phrase is commonly attributed to the infamously ruthless Cardinal Richelieu, but it actually comems from the massacre at Beziers during the Albigensian Crusade of 1209, and is attributed to the Papal legate in command of the Crusade...

That's why I specifically pointed this out as a shortcoming of absolutist systems of ethics, which specifically disallow the sort of fuzzy-logic exceptions that are provided in either virtue ethics or consequentialism. I would argue that in practice, traditional Christian morality tends to...

I would say a more accurate criticism is that this is the logical conclusion to moral systems which hold that ethical values are absolute and thus not subject to any change or exception based on circumstance. When morals are held to be absolute, the logical consequence is, "Even the most extreme...

I think this is an incredibly dangerous precedent to set, infringing dangerously on private property rights and setting the stage to bring back the horrible FCC "fairness doctrine” with an even broader scope than before.

His exact words, across two tweets, were: "No. Let me make something clear: James contacted me directly to be included in *early* beta, which is only ~1000 cars, mostly employees. Early beta explicitly has issues or it would be rolled out widely, so publicly criticizing something he had asked...

You have to be joking. All the guy said was that Tesla still has "much work to do" on refining FSD, which is not just mild but milquetoast as a criticism. There is absolutely no-fucking-way that could be remotely construed as libelous *or* tasteless, and Musk being so angry and offended over...

Elon Musk's declarations that he believes in absolute free speech contrast rather vividly with his thin skin over any criticism that directly targets himself or his pet projects. He recently posted on social media, doubling down on previous attacks on a Tesla FSD user for daring to (very mildly)...

The person most responsible for the L.A. riots was LAPD Police Chief Daryl Gates, who was a "tough on crime" conservative type who actively encouraged racism and abuse of power in his force. Gates strongly opposed the concept of "community policing", believing that the police should be aloof...

*rolls eyes* Unfortunately, the right wing is very good at burning that possibility with piles of racism. Hell, the main reason "Rooftop Koreans" was a thing in the first place was racist cops actively funneling the riots into Asian neighborhoods because they *only* wanted to protect white...

Even Parler's terms of service included as "we can ban any user at any time for any reason" provision, and in any case private businesses are *rightfully entitled to* do so.

Saddam already did use chemical weapons against foreign countries.