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28 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I haven’t read a column this disingenuous in a long time. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
My point about this article being disingenuous isn't that I think it's bad policy to start taxing universities and charitable foundations, tho I mostly think it's bad policy. That's not his point. His point is that if you want to hike taxes on the extremely wealthy you're ...
2/ somehow a hypocrite or not consistent if you don't also raise taxes on universities and charities. That is absurd. Taxing Bill Gates is not the same as taxing his foundation, even though both generate lots of income. Charities can be mismanaged of course. But the equation ...
3/ of the two things is absurd. The whole point of the article isn't to make any substantive point abt the accumulation of vast wealth at a small number of private universities (very real issue) it's just kicking up bullshit dust trying to distract from a real issue.

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it serves no purpose to suspend sale of the roth bio. if the aim is to make amends the publisher can (shld) contribute the proceeds to a relevant charity. The authors accusers can sue the author for his earnings. the book shld remain in the wild. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
2/ I say this on the assumption that all the accusations against the author are true. Roth was one of the most celebrated English language authors of the later half of the 20th century. this book benefited from extensive and highly candid interviews with Roth and privileged ...
3/ access to his papers. that makes it an important literary document entirely apart from the actions of the author. A tome about Roth is unlikely to be a high selling beach read. If the publisher feels the issue is a matter of principle they are free to release it to a ...
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This is such a weird thing to me. When I was a kid "Josh" was a pretty uncommon, verging on rare name. This is SoCal in the 70s. Like when you were at a convenience store looking at those little license plates with names? No Josh. Ever. Even weirder is "Jacob" which was to my ...
2/ recollection was almost exclusively Jewish, very rare, and had more than a bit of the feel of the shtetl about it.
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2/ Why should super wealthy people who make most of their money from capital gains pay a lower rate than middle class families with wage income. Makes no sense. Yes, there are arguments abt growth. But those arguments have very little empirical evidence behind them.
3/ And if nothing else it leads to a lot of what is in effect upper end wage/salary income being repurposed into capital gains. What's unclear to me in the write ups I've seen is whether the proposal is simply to tax wages and gains at the same rate up and down the scale ...
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This “killology” stuff is a cancer within American policing. Not to say the rest doesn’t have a lot of problems. But this is the worst of the worst and many PD unions fund this kind of training.
2/ I'd recommend reading up on the subject. But the gist is it trains police to approach encounters with the default assumption of a kill first or be killed mindset - even though very few encounters police officers will ever have actually resembles anything like this.
3/ Needless to say, training police to operate like this is a good way to get a lot of civilians killed. The deeper part of it is to desensitize people to what the originator of the theory rightly sees as an ingrained reluctance (he calls it a phobia) to kill other people.
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This chyron from Greenwalds appearance on Fox last night illustrates what yesterday’s high-fiving was all about. Sicknick’s death “was weaponized to portray mob as barbaric & murderous.” As it was from the start with Greenwald and his pals on the right, the controversy over ...
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3/ used to be police organizations and police unions. This is hardly surprising. Police want superior firepower and a decisive advantage in armed confrontations. This is obvious whether you have a benign or malign view of police. Over the last couple decades though you've ...
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