What’s wrong with letting a billionaire develop his own private space program and satellite launch capability?
It’s not like he’s suddenly going to turn evil and wind up pro-Russian or something!
People in California and New York pay 20% of federal taxes and have 4 Senators. People in 21 states--AK ID UT MT WY ND SD NE KS OK IA MO AR LA MS AL TN KY IN WV SC--pay 15% of federal taxes and have 42 Senators.
What's that old saying? Oh yeah, taxation without representation.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KBAndersen/status/1610748512810967043
“People in California and New York pay 20% of federal taxes and have 4 Senators. People in 21 states--AK ID UT MT WY ND SD NE KS OK IA MO AR LA MS AL TN KY IN WV SC--pay 15% of federal taxes and have 42 Senators. What's that old saying? Oh yeah, taxation without representation.”
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the same people who are anti-Black are (by and large) also antisemitic, anti-Latinx, anti-Asian, anti-LGBTQI, anti-women -- etc. The shorthand is white supremacy, but it's really straight white male Christian supremacy, and it is less about "hate" and more about power and about sowing fear through stories and stereotypes in order to retain power.
We can't fight it unless we know what we're looking at.
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For all arguments about staying on Twitter, I’d just quote what someone on here said earlier:
When a Nazi buys your bar and starts inviting over all the other Nazis, and the Nazis get free drinks and start to push around all of the other people there, who aren’t Nazis, it’s a Nazi Bar. I wouldn’t go to a Nazi Bar.
That’s it.
BREAKING: President Biden says he’ll push Congress to ban assault rifles before Republicans take the majority.
Smash the ❤️ if you agree with President Biden that it's time to ban assault weapons.