CURRENT EVENTS May 22 - July 5

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“…At a moment when the Trump administration is scrubbing prominent Black historic figures from U.S. government websites and condemning Smithsonian exhibits on race as “divisive ideology,” the Edenton statue drama — community activism, followed by a resurgence of the old order — seems to embody the nation’s pivot from the reckonings of 2020 that were prompted by the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

… On a recent sunny Saturday, Ron Toppin, 80, and two helpers set up a canopy over tables neatly lined with trays of Confederate information sheets and hit the sidewalk two hours before their opponents arrived.

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Trump’s election “made the country a whole lot better,” said Toppin, whose late wife used to organize the informational materials for the group and who said his great-great-grandfather was a rebel soldier captured by the Union in 1863. “We’ve got America back.”

Mike Dean, commander of the Edenton Bell Battery of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, roared up on his Harley — dubbed “Traveller” after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s horse — and took command of the outpost. When a few protesters began marching up the sidewalk, Dean gestured to a woman walking by with a sign that read “Remove this statue.”

“Understand,” Dean said, “these are Marxists. Marxists want to destroy history.”…”
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My dick shrank half an inch just reading that. The Small Dick Energy is off the charts.
 
nycfan said:
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Gift —> https://wapo.st/4ev2SzJ

“…At a moment when the Trump administration is scrubbing prominent Black historic figures from U.S. government websites and condemning Smithsonian exhibits on race as “divisive ideology,” the Edenton statue drama — community activism, followed by a resurgence of the old order — seems to embody the nation’s pivot from the reckonings of 2020 that were prompted by the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

… On a recent sunny Saturday, Ron Toppin, 80, and two helpers set up a canopy over tables neatly lined with trays of Confederate information sheets and hit the sidewalk two hours before their opponents arrived.

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Trump’s election “made the country a whole lot better,” said Toppin, whose late wife used to organize the informational materials for the group and who said his great-great-grandfather was a rebel soldier captured by the Union in 1863. “We’ve got America back.”

Mike Dean, commander of the Edenton Bell Battery of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, roared up on his Harley — dubbed “Traveller” after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s horse — and took command of the outpost. When a few protesters began marching up the sidewalk, Dean gestured to a woman walking by with a sign that read “Remove this statue.”

“Understand,” Dean said, “these are Marxists. Marxists want to destroy history.”…”
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Because nothing says you're a Marxist like favoring taking down a statue honoring soldiers who fought to break up the nation and preserve slavery and killed hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers defending the Constitution and the Union. And I'm sure that taking down that statue will automatically cause everyone in Edenton to forget all about the Civil War and American history. It's been said several times before, but for people who love to call others snowflakes who need participation trophies, they certainly seem intent on keeping up the biggest participation trophies of all.
 
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On a spiritual level, I agree that there shouldn't be billionaires. In my perspnal opinion, anyone with that kind of wealth should be furiously donating as their full time preoccupation. It's obscene to have that kind of money and not want to help as many people as possible.

I also dont think my personal beliefs should be codified into law.
 
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🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...0?st=Euzgt9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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“…A group of about 400 EPA employees have signed a public letter sent Monday to Zeldin claiming the Trump administration is ignoring science to the benefit of corporate polluters. Zeldin is “fundamentally changing the mission of the EPA when he focuses on industry needs above human health and the environment,” said Amelia Hertzberg, an environmental-protection specialist at the EPA who signed the letter. She said she was put on administrative leave in February.

An EPA spokeswoman said the agency was “bound by laws established by Congress—not what some would like the law to say.”

Under Zeldin’s leadership, scientists at the agency’s Office of Research and Development have seen their funds, staffing and contracts slashed, according to people familiar with the matter. The EPA earlier this year submitted a plan to the Office of Management and Budget to eliminate the research and development office and fire at least half of its staff, according to a document reviewed by Democratic staff for the House Science Committee and seen by the The Wall Street Journal….”
 
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The Trump administration is building a national citizenship system​



“The Trump administration has built a searchable national citizenship data system. The tool is designed to be used by state and local election officials to ensure only citizens are voting. But it was developed rapidly without a public process, and some of those officials are already worrying about what else it could be used for.”
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Remember those personal data files stolen by Elon’s thugs? Told y’all. Worse to come. Got us by the short hair.
 
wmheel1287 said:
On a spiritual level, I agree that there shouldn't be billionaires. In my perspnal opinion, anyone with that kind of wealth should be furiously donating as their full time preoccupation. It's obscene to have that kind of money and not want to help as many people as possible.
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That’s where I’m at. I’m a firm believer in capitalism as a conduit of creation, innovation, entrepreneurship, business-building, etc., so I’m also a firm believer in the ability to make immense amounts of money as an incentive to the above.

That said, I also think that wealth/assets/income above a certain high threshold (say, at a net worth or asset value of $1B) should be appropriately taxed at a high rate. There’s no earthly need or reason for any human being to have $1B+. It’s just not necessary. You can still live one of the most lavish lifestyles in the history of humanity on….several hundred million….all while getting the altruistic benefit of knowing that your immense wealth has made a major impact on society. This notion of billionaire assholes hoarding wealth and trying to destroy American democracy because they don’t want to pay taxes is, in my estimation, a relatively new phenomenon. Back in the day, comparative billionaires like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, etc. etc. gifted things like libraries, hospitals, educational institutions, etc. instead of, you know, trying to dismantle on American democracy and establishing a technofeudal state.

In my line of work, I work with HNW to UHNW folks on financial planning, wealth management, estate planning, philanthropic planning, etc. and am always surprised at how much more naturally generous are the folks with the seven figure and low eight figure NW’s are than the folks with the high-eight and nine figure net worths. Although I can share one feel-good anecdote about one guy I work with, who last year sold a biotechnology/pharmaceutical company he co-founded 20 years ago for $7B, and is now, by definition, a billionaire in his late 40’s (and fully retired, obviously). He’s got a house in Mexico and a house in Park City, and he and his family want to travel internationally a lot, but otherwise his mission for his money is to give the vast majority of it away in his lifetime.
 
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