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That's such a great angle, calling all republican presidents DEI hires from the electoral college lol

Yep that's the joke ;)

Good news! If the MAGA party wins in November they'll surely defund, gut, or do away with the EPA entirely, so pollution fines will drop to zero, clearly indicating pollution is gone!

I always thought of Quark as the moral center of DS9. Hear me out. It's a darker show, much more shades of grey, a bit of a break from Roddenbury's vision of star trek. Instead of Jean Luc's pompous speeches, and Janeway's infuriating (and inconsistent) adherence to the prime directive, DS9 actually toes the line and crosses it many times. Quark meanwhile has his own code, and he sticks to it as faithfully as anyone can. He is true to himself and his species and pretty much never crosses his own line - he crosses our line for sure, but rarely if ever his own. Pretty much the only time I can remember him doing something un-ferengi is when he turned down a gazillion bars of latinum to run weapons for those people planning on blowing up a planet with a few million people on it. At the end of the day you can always count on quark doing the right thing. He's quite complex, and by far one of my favorite characters in all of Trek.

Yeah, himbo definition is unattractive and Rom is a sexy beast! How else did he land a knockout like Leeta?

You're a very unpleasant person.

Calm down professor. The US is one of the only countries in the world to tax worldwide income, even if they are a nonresident of the US. That is NOT how it works in every country.

Here's a pretty good article about it from the WSJ if you want to educate yourself on the subject: https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WB-34630

It's somewhat accurate to say "every penny they make is taxABLE to Uncle Sam" which is different from saying 100% tax rate. Americans living outside the US still need to file a tax return and report all their income, and pay tax on it to the US, even if it is from a foreign source. That said they could claim the foreign tax credit if they paid tax to a foreign regime on that income already, or the foreign income exclusion under some circumstances which would reduce their taxable income to the US.

Well thank god we don't have any Death Panels from Obamacare though!

They call it "Lincoln's Tax War" in the South.

Personally I'm way happier with a 401(k) than a pension. Risk is more distributed with a pension, yes, and many people don't have the knowledge or resolve to properly manage their own retirement funds. But pensions are a royal PITA, way more complicated (and expensive) to manage than a 401k. So if I had to choose between money coming out of my paycheck to go into a complicated expensive pension fund that may or may not be around in a few decades, OR a 401k that I have complete control over and can take with me when I leave the company, I'll take the 401k every day of the week.

Personally I feel like it's less about exposure to extreme gore and porn and stuff like that. It's more about the constant barrage of awful shit happening all over the world. Some stupid thing some politician said, police brutality, an asshole on a plane, etc. Our brains just weren't designed to handle so much stimulus overload. I'm not a psychologist or whatever but that's my opinion.