Yeah, it’s true that in this case most people would never have to care about that. When I replied I was thinking about inheritance taxes in general. My bad.

Not that insane. Most people only concern themselves with their own issues. And if you’re a 40 year old whose childhood home is now worth 500k or whatever and you have to pay 200k in taxes in order to inherit it, then you probably want to vote against it because otherwise the government will take it.

Okay, take all that with a grain of salt because I’m not too familiar with inheritance law, but it’s based on multiple similar stories I’ve heard from people.

I still think it should be taxed, don’t get me wrong. But I understand why people are against it.

It’s not just any company, it’s a law firm 10 years after founding…Yeah, it could be a law firm that’s barely scraping by in some village with 3 other law firms, but I highly doubt it. Plus it’s a joke. The punchline is that the person is loaded.

Depends on the denomination, I think. Dunno about others but for Orthodox Christians the soul goes to heaven(or gets to be judged by God, actually) after 40 days because that’s how long Jesus took to ascend after his death.

Yeah, fuck musicians for wanting to make a living… They should all have a day job or just starve like all the greats… JFC, you people are just something…

Well, even if trump himself can weather that storm, the rest of the powerful people in there might not. Either that or it’s just a distraction.

You do realize that it’s mainly the poor people who are suffering when the rich don’t get taxed, right? It’s the governments getting robbed, yes, but that wasn’t the main takeaway from that comment.

Everything is a CIA psyop nowadays. Everything bad happens because of the USA. Everything good happens because people are strong enough to resist US influence.

Look at Cuba. Amazing government that provides free healthcare and people are super educated. And all the issues that they have are because of the US embargo. All the other issues like freedom of speech and whatnot are not actually real, just another CIA psyop.

So see? The USA is both super powerful and super weak.

My bad, I must’ve tunnel visioned on some things. But in my defense, the original argument was that he wasn’t doing enough good, not that he wasn’t flawed enough. And with that we’re changing the subject and getting too much into subjectivity. He’s not perfect, far from it… he’s paranoid, his relationships with other characters are far from good or normal because of his issues… his handling of the joker… etc. Could there have been more focus on his flaws and issues? Sure, but that has nothing to do with the original discussion of “why isn’t he using his money to make Gotham a better place”. Which he is, despite what you might say or think. Just because they’re not giving us all the details that doesn’t mean that he isn’t. That’s an artistic choice. You might disagree with that choice, but that doesn’t change the canon.

If there’s one line in the first issue that says “when he’s not busy fighting bad guys, he spends his time investing in social programs and hires ex-convicts in his company in order to reform them and bla bla” and then never mentions it again for the next 300 issues? Then we have to assume that he’s still doing that, because that’s what the writer said. It’s the Batman comics, not the Bruce Wayne comics.

These stories are not meant to be realistic, they’re not meant to be so in depth… there’s always going to be issues…

To me all that sounds like we shouldn’t have heroes. Because they could all be doing other, more “efficient” jobs. Except maybe for captain planet…altho I’m sure we can find improvements for that one as well.

And yes, successful villains all end up either people that want to destroy everything or people that want to make things better but doing it wrong. Anything less than that and they’re not important enough.

All these issues are usually features, not bugs, I think.

I never said he was morally good. People just like to come into batman discussions and be like "akshually, he could be spending that money on social programs to improve the city ". And the answer is that he’s doing that as well.

I probably misspoke when I said that “he’s doing everything that he can”. Maybe he’s just flawed. I dunno, it’s just a comic book character. Feels pointless to overanalyze him like this. Next issue they could easily write an explanation for why the curse can’t be lifted(or maybe there is one, idk). Or they could say how he’s running out of money because he’s spending so much on social projects. But that wouldn’t really make for a great batman comic, imo. In the end, taking any fictional character so seriously is pointless imo because the answer is always the same on my mind: they did something or are a certain way because the writer thought that would be cool or be an interesting story.

I feel like I’ve read this comment like 3 times in 3 different batman threads this past week… luckily all the others were down voted as they should be. He actually does do that

The issue is that Gotham is cursed so it can’t be fixed, no matter how much he tries.

The same quote is also in the guardian article.

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency

More of a cultural thing, I think. From what I’ve gathered from a friend that lives in the Netherlands the dutch are pretty serious about paying for their own meals and getting people to pay for theirs. I even remember seeing a sketch made by some dutch people where one gives a bite of their sandwich to a coworker or something and then they tell the coworker that they’re owed x amount for it.

Gaza aid flotilla in the title. Not Greta’s flotilla. Her name is there because she’s the most well known person there, probably and also because not everyone was arrested.

It says in the article

The Global Sumud Flotilla said most of its vessels were continuing their journey as of early Thursday morning, nearing the coast of the Gaza strip despite the interruptions.

People are not doing well, sure, because only the rich are doing well (same as all over the world), but we’re doing better than most other people.

Well, after reading the whole thing… they have equally bad things to say about Russia and China, so I don’t think the article is written by a tankie. And even tho I disagree with their claims that Europe is sabotaging the peace talks in Ukraine (it’s obvious to most people that russia doesn’t wanna give up the land that they’ve taken and Ukraine isn’t happy to concede it either), I also can’t say for sure that they’re not. World leaders are known to be lying cunts and it wouldn’t surprise me to hear that they are indeed doing that. They probably think it’s a good thing that Russia is spending so much time and resources in Ukraine.

Andor

Cheaters aren’t only aimbots. In fact, most of the time they’re not even using aimbot because that’s one of the easiest one to tell that someone is cheating. Most of the time they can just see everyone through walls. But if it’s cheater vs cheater and they don’t care about being caught then it’s not fun or interesting because you just use aim + speed + noclip (I assume that’s possible) and just kill everyone the second the round starts.

Folks*. And yes, dying for a cup.