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It's kinda weird that the first time I heard of Charlie Kirk was the time he got shot.
I'm just browsing Lemmy and the headlines were "CHARLIE KIRK JUST GOT SHOT AT A RALLY!!!"
And my first reaction was "Oh no! Also, who is that?"
And then I started learning who he was. So now I know that he was a gun advocate who held rallys calling for more gun violence. From that perspective I now know that he died doing what he loved. Getting shot.
If you're American, it's impressive you managed to avoid him!
I avoid everybody. Humans are the worst.
Well, avoid hearing about him. You're on the internet, so some things are hard to avoid knowing about no matter how misanthropic you are!
I never heard of him before he got shot either. 🤷
I love this guy he's hilarious. What has he been up to?
Every time I do, it makes me
He hasn't released any new content in months.
I heard he started to lean left.
At least he leaned left in the end
SHOTS FIRED!
Socialism isn't a bigger minimum wage. Socialism is when the workers control the means of production and own the fruits of their labor.
Socialism, for the dumb, is like a gross word they use to trigger a reaction.
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Dead grifter is dead.
Dishonest for sure. Stupid people aren't this good at propaganda.
And it works. I had to talk my sister down from being upset over her raise. Was surreal that she thought it would mean less take home.
Fortunately, Charlie hasn't said anything dumb or racist in a year
What a great year, too bad all those other guys are still saying dumb and racist things. Really looking forward to when they'll be silenced.
is Charlie Kirk this stupid
I have good news for you
Charlie was really wearing his heart on his sleeve. And his collar. And his chest. And the pavement.
Face isn't tiny enough
Wait, do Americans not have a tax free threshold?
Yep. It's called the standard deduction. If you make less than that, you pay zero income tax.
Oic, weird, in Oz we just have a 0% tax rate for everything under 20k(ish)AUD, seems like a lot of extra steps to have tax rates listed for inconsequential amounts and then make people claim a deduction for those. Does the standard deduction apply to everyone or is it just if you earn less than the fixed amount? Because the latter would then penalise people for earning slightly more than the fixed amount which seems unfair ..
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I don't feel like I have a strong answer to that, other than there is a standard deduction applied to all federal tax returns. I suppose this would effectively give you the "tax free" bracket?
Yeah that sort of makes sense, seems like a lot of extra steps for no reason ..
I think the "no reason" might be TurboTax/Intuit/that one tax filing company named after a couple or whatever
Yeah that seems likely given how the US does everything else, make that shit as complicated as possible so someone can fleece someone else and maybe leave some loopholes that someone in the know can exploit ..
My wife is an accountant and according to her that's precisely the reason. Tax software is a major racket, and they spend a lot to make sure the tax code remains unnecessarily complex.
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Republicans do this thing where they lie about everything to make reasonable things sound bad to stupid people.
We do, but it's laughably low compared to the cost of living. It also only exempts you from personal income tax, not the other two major federal taxes that fund Medicare and Social Security. The majority of states also impose their own income tax, and the rules for how those are applied can vary wildly.
He 100% started with $7.20 and did the rest in a way that let him back into that number
Facts:
- Some partial premise
- Some incomplete data
- A conclusion loosely based on the previous points that confirms prejudice
(Last time I checked, facts were not that, but... Nevermind, the fuck is dead)
Rest in piss!
Facts: He dead.
Is his corpse still being filmed and molested by his wife?
If the answer is no then I demand to know why it isn't.
Stop posting this looser
A year? No. It can't be?
Nah, it's Sept 10. You'll have a happy day, then a sad day right after.
I feel like this one already stinks to high heaven. About time for the next one
Isn't 7.2 currently minimum wage and consequently, if Charlie would have been right, the government had more money... and that is bad?
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