Bevendre
-
Yes.
Watching your back.
That’s exactly what i’m doing.
“Legendary Feral Ghoul Roamer has joned the game”
Legendary Sucker Punch!!
SHE HAS THE PRECIOUS!!
(via twixie-answers-mod)
-
-
so i’m halfway through jessica jones and is there a point when kilgrave becomes more relatable because i keep seeing posts about how he’s “so bad but kind of sexy?” but like
no he is just 100% creepy and genuinely frightening. i don’t care that he’s played by david tennant
micah and i finished episode 3 last night
and kilgrave fucking terrifies me.There comes a point around the middle of the season where some of his backstory is shown and one can kind of understand where he’s coming from between his upbringing and the nature of his abilities, but he’s still terrifying and troubling.
Kilgrave/Purple Man is definitely one of the most menacing and enthralling (literally) villains in the MCU to date. -
I think the Netflix Jessica Jones series does the hero origin of being orphaned and secluded, as well as the psychotic villainous other half obsessed with the hero better than many iterations of Batman.
-
Does burd have any unpopular opinions?
Anonymous
I do not like The Iron Giant movie one bit.
I can see that. It’s a fine movie, but Cartoon Network kind of killed it for me.
-
Best. Idea. Ever!
I mean they outchea claiming that regular citizens can fight isis how about they go over there and fight them
I like this idea, though I originally misread it as “Swamp Racists for Refugees” and thought he was proposing a new reality show where Syrian refugees are made to seek shelter with the Duck Dynasty people.
(via travelererrant)
-
It's just an early snow, no doubt. It's down to the mid 20s here in Nebraska but there's still no sign of snow. At least where I'm at.
sorel-estia-deactivated20160504:
I just remember a winter about one or two years ago and the whole family had to stay home for days. Cabin fever insured. This family goes crazy when that happens haha
Everyone goes crazy when cabin fever sets in. First comes the boredom, then the paranoia, then the dance number! Wait, that’s Muppet Treasure Island…..still accurate.
-
i read that raising the tax rate on the rich actually reduced the amount they paid, and i read about a study that shows its not really helping to have higher taxes on them today.
If it reduced the amount that they paid then it was not through the raising of tax rates so much as it was finding ways around said tax rates. Raising the amount that someone pays in taxes, aka their tax rate, doesn’t reduce the amount that they pay unless the individual makes a conscious effort to write off various activities and practices to lower the amount that they pay. Or they don’t pay.
Having a blanket tax increase that affects everyone equally wouldn’t help much because it would cause a greater change in the lives of those with lower incomes while those with higher incomes would complain more and be effected less. Putting in tax brackets for the super rich and having their rates be higher, however, means more money going to the government to be distributed to different programs for the betterment of a larger amount of people than if it were to remain stagnant sitting in a billionaire’s billfold.
If you can find that study, or the info about raising tax rates on the rich hurting the economy feel free to send it my way though. -
bernie's economics's policies are shaky enough that i wouldn't want him to be POTUS anyway even if he was right about the global warming thing. basically his strategies are basically "tax the shit out of the rich" off the logic that the rich don't pay enough taxes anyway.
Looking at tax brackets over the last 100 years, the rich don’t pay enough. People who tend to complain that taxes are too high now are those that ended up growing up when the higher income citizens were in tax brackets that were taxed upwards of 70%. Those rates were slashed by the Reagan era cuts spurred by the Reagonomic economic model that is often and rightly blamed for a lot of the current wealth distribution issues.
Right now the absolute highest tax rate is 39.6%, and that only affects individuals making more than $400,000 each year. Historically that’s really low, and affecting a lot of people. Why is it so ridiculous to ask the mega-millionaires or billionaires to pay a higher tax rate when their income makes it absurdly unlikely that said higher taxes would have a negative affect on their lifestyle?
Bernie’s economic (and other) policies have been mirrored or inspired by similar models that have worked very well in a number of foreign countries, as well as his own experience in Congress where he’s been in place since 1991, with 16 years in the House and 8 years in the senate, and are a hell of a lot more sane than the plans of some other candidates. Take a look at Trump’s model that would have eliminated the estate tax, lowered the highest tax rate to 25% and cost the country trillions within a few years. -
i remember someone made a rebuttal to that logic though, basically instead of finding a legitimate source of income they joined a group who blow themselves up so they can go fuck 72 virgins because they happened to scream "allahu ackbar!" before killing a bunch of innocents. forgive me if i cracked open a can of yellow jackets there.
No problem. People have their own reasons for doing things, be it changing locations in life, or suicide bombing. An individuals reasons for joining a terrorist cell can range from fulfilling a particular misinterpreted line of what they follow as holy writing to looking to destabilize a system or country that they believe to be evil, to having no other place to go in their view.
None of the individual’s reasons can really be judged for the whole, and there are undoubtedly some people who do it because they believe that something is promised for them in the afterlife. The more important question is what the terrorist group itself is after, and those reasons are generally easier to link back to destabilizing a power through one method or another in an attempt to make things follow their views or desires more closely. It’s those reasons that are fairly easy to tie to global warming, not directly perhaps but definitely within reason.
