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Do you think being poor in 2026 and later is a form of resistance?

taxes and all of that

Tons of people still don't understand taxes are graduated. So... yeah. You're going to pay more if you have more to pay with. But it never makes your "poorer". It's only a higher fraction on each extra dollar, not the money you already paid taxes on at a lower bracket.

There are a few government sponsored benefits that have a cliff aka welfare trap. In those cases, yes you could be worse off if you step off whatever cliff the program has set. But that's very different from taxes, it's something to fix, and was generally something that was helpful which is antithetical to a thesis of government suppression.

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It's even worse than the picture implies. Alex walked away from that confrontation, and then later ICE assaulted a woman in front of Alex. Alex was helping her while she was falling over. ICE didnt like him helping her so he decided to pepper spray both of them. ICE thugs jumped Alex during this and then executed him. There was zero confrontation, just murder.

I think of the quote by Mr. Rogers during moments of tragedy: find the helpers. ICE executed the helper. There is zero ambiguity what happened here.

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I don't understand how the federal government gets a pass breaking all these fucking laws. It was ALREADY the law! Where are the consequences? Rule of law my fucking ass. Are the officers that arrested Representative LaMonica McIver and Mayor Ras Baraka facing ANY consequences?