Nah, you still end up paying state and local taxes. Income/revenue is different than profit.

Plus, being a non profit allows for people like Jack to utilize donations as tax deductions.

I feel like nonprofit should come with default quotations nowadays. At this point it’s just a way to avoid taxation during development until you have a feasible route to profitability.

Better luck next time white boys… I guess there were some benefits to being mixed race back then? Would have been drafted into a segregated unit, but I wouldn’t have been dying on a beach in Normandy.

One of those rare times when systemic racism backfires I guess? Land of the free*

*Your experience may vary depending on melanin content.

Pretty sure that is Tarlov, Danna Perino the only other woman host is sitting directly to the left of Gutfeld.

Innocent until proven guilty is not a moral code, it’s a legal one. Courts do not dictate reality or morality, they are obviously imperfect social constructs and to pretend otherwise is foolish.

Lol, the fucking lady who threw out the “Nazi please” is supposed to be the resident liberal… Jessica Tarlov self-proclaimed democratic party strategist. Though it looks like her only real credentials in politics was helping Boris Johnson’s mayoral campaign in 08’?

Where does Fox News find these people?

call bullshit on 2/3 of Congress.

Yeah… It really doesn’t have to be that dramatic. The GOP would be more than willing to bury any kind of evidence if it only endangered a couple of their mega donors.

I mean I’m guessing that the people wealthy enough to partake in pedo island probably aren’t a fan of paying taxes.

This is just the sunk cost fallacy though. You can inflate the paper value of assets by playing games like this, but the bill always comes due in the end. Yes, companies that do this can juice their books a bit in the short term, but they’re harming themselves in the long term.

I mean… That’s kinda what late stage capitalism is all about, squeezing blood from stones on a quarterly basis.

You could create a subsidiary and have that company rent out some of your floor space for absurdly high rates. But you’re ultimately just robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Reminds me of the twin towers. One of the reasons it was such a catastrophe is because the towers were such a money sink that the city of New York subsidized the development by relocating a ton of government offices to there.

Fuck, these companies might actually be violating the law. Deliberately choosing unproductive business practices just to cook your real estate books is something Enron would do.

Pretty much the standard quo nowadays…why invest in things like labour when you can just inflate the worth of assets for free? Capitalism is about reducing cost while simulating growth, there is no reason to actually invest in the company if you can simulate investment enough to make share price go up.

Maybe if capitalism actually relied on competition for growth as capitalists often claim, however it’s pretty easy to recognize that corporations often work together to create their own demand.

I feel like everyone did a partner swap during the Iran Iraq war at least once.

Iran

established positive ties with many countries including Syria (under Hafez al-Assad), Libya (under Gaddafi), North Korea (under Kim Il Sung), Bulgaria (under Todor Zhivkov), Poland, Yugoslavia, East Germany, China (under Deng Xiaoping) and eventually the Western Bloc (after Switzerland who indirectly sold Iran western ammunition, Argentina also reached out to Iran proposing arms sales and agreed to also train Iranians in TOW production) to purchase arms for the IRGC. Iran’s recovering army, however, had its own logistics support who reached out to Western Bloc countries including the United States and, indirectly, Israel to purchase ammunition and spare parts for their Western-made military equipment. Syria, Libya (who supplied Iran with approximately US$900 million dollars worth of free arms and 30 Scud-B missiles[5] and North Korea (who later supplied Iran with between 200 and 300 Soviet-built Scud-B and Scud-C missiles and transferred missile production technology to Iran)[6] were the first suppliers of arms to Iran. Eastern Bloc followed suit under financial pressures as the Soviet Union no longer had strict policies on sanctioning Iran. Rafighdoost maintains that the equipment Iran received from the United States following the Iran-Contra affair, were non-functional and broken, and were only made usable after repairs. He was also contacted by a third-party with ties to Switzerland who agreed to provide Iran with Western-made ammunition. Rafighdoost also claims that he was approached by an Israeli arms dealer in his hotel room while he was in Switzerland, and he rejected him.[citation needed]

Iraq

Iraq’s army was primarily equipped with weaponry it had previously purchased from the Soviet Union and its satellites in the preceding decade. During the war, it also purchased billions of dollars’ worth of advanced equipment from France, China, Egypt, Germany and other sources.[10][better source needed] Iraq’s three main suppliers of weaponry during the war were the Soviet Union followed by China and then France.[11] The United States sold Iraq over $200 million in helicopters, which were used by the Iraqi military in the war.

You’re forgetting the whole…" I invested entirely too much in corporate real estate".

When there’s instability in the market a lot of fortune 500 corporations will start investing in corporate real estate as a “safe bet” to hedge more risky investments.

Skyscrapers and large office spaces are on paper horrible investments and have an awful time filling enough vacancies to offset their upkeep. The only thing that makes them a “safe” investment is that every company uses them as a way to bank equity. If those same companies pulled the rug from under themselves they would all lose that safe equity piggy bank.

Idk, I feel like allegorical communication is a bit different than someone believing that building a telescope is going to destroy the universe because it takes up too much ram.

I mean there are literal cults out there murdering people because they think AI is going to punish people who dont help AI take over the world.

There is something inherent about spending too much time with computers that warps people’s brains into compulsively perceiving everything around them in digital logic.

don’t know of any heroic deeds that Hitler did. Do you?

My definition of hero includes general morality… If we adopt your definition of just being brave or inspirational, then you would be hypocritical not too. He was a combat veteran who eventually went on to be the leader of his country. By your definition that’s not heroic?

didn’t say he was a hero, that was dagwoodiii a bit upthread

“I’d say that those heroic deeds by definition makes them a hero, even if it’s only in a narrow context as “American naval warfare”.”

I’d say that those heroic deeds by definition makes them a hero, even if it’s only in a narrow context as “American naval warfare”.

Again, no one is forcing you to call a child rapist a hero… It’s a pretty wild move imo.

By your own definition…is Hitler also a hero?

I think maybe it’s important when mantling someone with the title of “hero” that we weigh the positive and the negative aspects of their contributions, otherwise it can get awkward.

Ehh… If you want to proclaim your hero is the rapist of a 10 year old girl feel free I guess?

There’s a difference between the morally gray of acts committed in war, and the rape of a 10 year old girl. Which was morally reprehensible even in the perspective of 1700’s Russian society.

America’s legendary naval hero

Yeah… I’d hesitate to label him as a “hero” considering he was also a slaver and a child rapist.

Idk, if it wasn’t religion it’d be something else. Religion is a great tool to control populations, but it’s just one of many. Most human conflicts have a materialistic basis to them and things like religion or nationality are just used as window dressing.

I’d say the most destructive force on the planet is usually just rich/powerful dudes beefing over turf.

Most of the disposable e-cigarettes tested released markedly higher amounts of metals and metalloids into vapors than earlier, refillable vapes.

Yeah, seems to be an issue with a lack of commercial regulation than with the inherent technology itself. I am usually skeptical of any study toting cigarettes as the “safer” option, however this kinda keeps in pace with our society’s rapid devolution back to industrial age regulatory standards.

Industry’s regulatory and judicial capture seems to rear it ugly head once again at the expense of the public’s health.

The methacholine asthma test is the best asthma test imo, it can detect it in people who may be having mucus membrane irritation which hasn’t affected their lung capacity.

It’s budesonide formoterol inhaler, and it’s been a big game changer for me.