david

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OK, yes, I think you're right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This isn't an attempt to build a mosque at all, this is a comedian trolling insular folks.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Of course, but the far right don't care about facts, they just care about racism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Oh, I thought it was the CEO's online reputation and the fact the people are hearing more and more that their after sales service is shit, eg being charged £17000 for a new motor which is apparently the driver's fault for driving it in the rain. In Scotland.

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/motors/couple-charged-17000-tesla-broke-27925815

Apparently the problem has been known for some time:

https://insideevs.com/news/534878/tesla-models-motor-fail-rain/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Well, spirit of something, but whatever it is it isn't 'holy'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

They'll notice that they benefit from taxation so they'll be happier with a higher tax economy and see that tax cuts hurt them more than help them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's definitely also true, but republicans genuinely want everyone to hate taxation as well, so their interests very much align with the companies that want to fleece you.

Lots of countries have pay as you earn schemes where your income tax is deducted but your employer and sent to the government and you don't have to even lift a finger, likewise the price on the item at the shop, by law, includes tax and it's completely seamless for you. Republicans will never like such schemes because they want taxation to be hated by all so that they'll go along with tax cuts that primarily benefit such folks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

If government was done well, people might be happy paying their taxes, and that's the last thing republicans want.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 years ago (12 children)

This is great, but republicans are gonna hate it. They want everyone to hate taxes with a passion, so they make it difficult, time consuming and expensive to pay your taxes, and make government services as bad as possible so even poorer people who don't pay much tax feel they get a bad deal out of taxation.

If ordinary people found it easy and convenient to pay taxes they might notice that they get more out of government than they put in and that rich people are bearing more of the cost than they are. If they thought that, they might support tax increases or things that horrify republicans like medicaid for all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

They locked up the suffragettes for protesting too, back before women had the vote.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

We were only a leader in cutting emissions because we were so badly reliant on coal fired power stations and have moved away from that. We still do a lot worse than France for example, who we beat in percentage reduction terms, but we still emit much worse than they do!

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