The last one serves only the purpose to stop you from working too much. You only pay that if you make more than $70 000/year.
This is such a weird sentence. Like hearing a cult member talk about how the assraping is really only for their own good.
First of all, $70k is not even a high salary. The average salary for a teacher in the US is nearly that at >$60k, an engineer in the US is making >$90k. For IT, doctors, lawyers, middle managers it's >$100k.
These are normal jobs, and we're not even talking about the type of jobs that can net >$200k like in finance or at the tech companies, or management jobs >$400k.
Secondly, "to stop you from working too much."..... Fucking puke.
your health insurance, vacation days, sick leave and other benefits you would only ever see at extremely well paid jobs in the US.
Normal jobs have those in the US. And with the extra purchasing power, better healthcare is still cheaper.
The US might not be better if you're working in Mcdonalds, where btw you should not have fucking workers protections, I mean what the fuck are you doing working at Mcdonalds if you're above 18yo. But for pretty much every job it's better.
Not if you're a low or mid income worker. Try harder next time.
We were talking about the top tax bracket. But not if yeah ya think? Having a hard time sticking to the topic at hand?
notice all the homeless living on the street
The homeless aren't working you absolute retard.
I'm comparing net salary to net salary.
How is that hard for you to understand?
If one person gets $50 and an apple is $1 and another person gets $20 and an apple is $0.80, then the first person can buy more apples. It's irrelevant that the second person is being screwed by taxes.
the hell did you look?
I looked up Helsinki.
Where in scandinavia are you paying $500/m for a house?
All prices in Scandinavia includes 25% VAT
That's irrelevant to the point. From whatever money you get after all taxes, you have to buy stuff, and the stuff you're buying is hardly cheaper than in one of the most expensive cities in America.
First of all, just googling "highest tax bracket sweden" I get 52% (Municipal + County). Did you just count the minicipal tax?
Secondly, you can add around 10%-15% to that. You have to count the portion that the employer pays, that's just income tax by another name.
So yeah, not 50%, more like 60%, sorry my bad.
You don't pay capital gains tax on income, anywhere. I know the Finnish are special, but even they can't be that retarded to tax income as if it was capital.
Norway allows you to earn up to $50k tax free? Lol, that is some insane bullshit. Maybe $5k.
Nanny state countries with progressive taxation do indeed tax you 50% on parts of your income.
If you own a big house with two cars in a double garage your utility bills for that is likely no more than $500/mo.
Absolutely do not believe. Just googling average rent in some Scandinavian cities, and it's in the order of $1k for two bedroom apartments, nevermind a home.
Healthy eco groceries and other essentials for a family of 4 is around $500/mo
Checking on price comparison cites, groceries in Finland is just 20% less expensive than somewhere like LA.
Math is oppression. We're all individuals, we should be able to choose! What if I'm not interested in math! You shouldn't force people to study things they don't like!
Now please hand in your race communism homework, and follow me to the mandatory gender and degeneracy class where today we're practicing our hatred of the old and building our activist rage.
Good morning bodies, let's start by praising the empire ideology with the rainbow song!
If low-IQ redditor replies is all you've got, then we're done here.
Context is a nothing word.
Everything and every idea has infinite context.
When you're using nothing words to make moral arguments, what you're actually doing is propagandizing your particular point of view.
Have the strength to speak your convictions instead of hiding behind nothing words.
What you want to say is: "I agree that it's totally not permissible to say nigger, and I completely agree with the concept of hate speech, and totally saying nigger is hate speech, and hate speech is heresy, and people who engage in hate speech should be drawn and quartered and exiled, BUT you see in this particular instance he said nigger because he was using it as an example of a hate speech word to make the point that it's dangerous to our democracy, and so in this particular instance what he did was justifiable."
And I'm telling you that this is bullshit.
"Context" is irrelevant. We are where we are, in part because no one has the courage to say "fuck your context, she should be free to show her class as many prophet pictures as she damn well pleases, because protecting the feelings of muslims or the easily offended is not a moral principle, not is it a cultural priority".
And THAT'S the principle that needs defending, that people should be free to speak their mind and not risk excommunication because they insulted some liberal sensibilities.
"Context matters" is leftist bullshit. It's just reserving the right to censor differently.
Context is irrelevant, the only thing that matters is the principle, which here is that anyone should be allowed to say anything at all times, unless the words are posing a direct and intended threat, or causing direct and intended physical harm.
The leftist will say that the reaction is also free speech, but that's absolute nonsense and assumes that there are no workers protections. If you do something that is not illegal, like idk petting a kitten, then your job should absolutely not be allowed to fire you for it.
They can still fire you and claim it's downsizing or whatever, and that's fine, but being allowed to use the opportunity to propagandize, fearmonger, and virtue signal is absolute clownery.
Register as a woman.
Advantages: Avoid the draft should it ever hit. Serve with women should you ever have to go to jail.
Disadvantages: none.
This should be a movement.
I took one for the team and searched for "age gap love violate human rights WEF". Nothing.
Link doesn't work.
Sex work is real work, and Shortbus is art, and having sex on the stage is still just acting, and nudity is natural, but these actors have been harmed for having acted in a tasteful scene waking up in bed naked, still mostly covered, in a Shakespeare play.
They should change their catchphrase to "hypocrisy is our strength".
Saggy tits energy.
Even Jonathan Blow, out of all people, is calling out bullshit on this:
https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1608607753509171200
I'm buying his games, I will support anyone who has the courage to challenge the cathedral.
Why are we limiting ourselves to what has been tried?
What about a monarchy where the king is bound by a constitution guaranteeing negative rights to all subjects, overseen by a council of 12 members consisting of 4 generals, 4 religious leaders, and 4 scholars of history. The council can only do two things; depose the king if and only if he breaks the constitution, and approve the use of the military. Both with a 2/3 majority.
That's just at the top of my head. Surely we shouldn't resign ourselves to democracy, the very institution that's empowering the midwits to wreck everything that's good and worthwhile.
Woke Boers?
I guess you're right, I'm sure they exist, I'm probably just drawing conclusions on too narrow of a dataset.
I should say, observation becomes far more achievable.
A classic case of "the solutions lie somewhere outside of the overton window".
Drawing conclusions a posteriori would allow us to construct a society that could better benefit everyone. Even if you're 100% with the globalist agenda you should want to direct the project towards success.
Alas, observation is just too much of a heavy burden for the average emotional state to handle.
We're doomed to keep on pretending that everything is just about to average out, any moment now.
We just need a bit more authoritarianism that's all. And some more shoehorning. Just a bit less merit. A little bit less empathy here, and little bit more affirmative action there. And a tiny bit less fundamental human rights for all. And surely, surely, utopia is right around the corner.
Elon knows.
No person has ever been to south of Sahara Africa and not observed.
Despite their greatest efforts. All of the programming is the world was not enough to stop the conscious part of their brain from making observations.
I know uber-woke do-gooders who went there on UN missions and even they observed.
And if you know, then the monumental efforts put into the multitude of state and activist anti-observation campaigns become all too apparent.
The demand for black female actors FAR outstrips the supply of good ones.
There just aren't many great black female actors, while they're being shoved into everything. With every film and ad and show requiring at least one, they're hiring from the bottom of the barrel.
A diverse cast just tells you all you need to know about how much the production cares about merit or talent. Nine times out of ten it means it's safe to skip.
Another plague on modern cinema are ugly actresses which is becoming increasingly more common. How much more enjoyable would Guardians of the Galaxy have been if the lead actress had pleasant facial features? No escapism for you! Yet somehow the actors haven't gotten uglified, and women get to keep their eye candy. Strange that.
As always; don't pay to support anything that would please a SJW, for whatever reason, be it a woke script or diverse casting.
Egyptians are Africans in the same way that Brazilians are American.
To add to this tragedy, look up articles elsewhere. BBC, Independent.
They are all trying to spin this into some "nothing to see here" event.
Non of them mention that she refused, non of them make a point of out how she was drugged instead just mentioning that she was given a sedative like it was routine and benevolent.
Is this a satire page?
Social media is like kryptonite to those with an innate weakness towards peer pressure, conformity, groupthink, anxiety, low selfesteem, low risk tolerance, and to people pleasers.
We're being pushed towards an increasingly dystopian world by an emergent exploitation of this weakness of the masses and their inability to think and want for themselves.
Reddit is a destructive force, absolutely wrecking the lives of millions through addiction and brainwashing - and the irony of them thinking of themselves as "anti-evil" is just chefs kiss.
The cherry on top of the reddit cake is this however; all what these users truly want is a trad life, in a community, taking care of the children, making arts and crafts, and living in harmony with nature, with likeminded people, in a low conflict, no crime, high trust society. They even say as much. There are threads about what you will do after the revolution, and they all describe some national socialist village life lol
And yet social media (and IMO a big part of that is reddit in particular) has turned them into footsoldiers on the side that is advocating for a high conflict, high crime, no trust society of living in isolation, in polluted cities, dredging away at a corporate job, in a state of constant anxiety surrounded by strangers with all kinds of different belief systems which your animal brain is interpreting as a constant threat and you spend your life in fight or flight, with the only reprieve from the hellscape surrounding you that's allowed being degeneracy and constantly numbing your brain with consumption and propaganda.
It's remarkable. It's a feat. It's in a way impressive. Somehow all these people have been made to spend all their time obsessing about the imagined suffering of "the marginalized" as an exploit to take over their consciousness and imagination and turn them into NPCs. With the marginalized being a class of people who are basically deities, with all the financial, social, and bureaucratic advantages you can imagine. And in doing so advocate for a world that's a disaster for absolutely everyone but a small elite of the cultural and capital upperclass.
It's all so perfectly, beautifully dystopian, I can't help but admire it.
Where did I claim that a fast food worker is making $70k?
Also, seems that you are full of shit.
Looking up on numbeo and the average cost of living in Finland is $850 eur per person. And the average rent is $1000 (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre.
Those are national averages. You can also find a place in the US where $500 gets you a house, so the fact that you're personally living somewhere remote is irrelevant.