on behalf of Israel

Not exactly a good argument to discredit them saying it is not a nazi salute. An organization working on behalf of israel is unlikely to support nazi behaviors, no?

I’m not making any claims about the ADL beyond having some serious doubt that they would go along with nazi-ism.

If you’re immigrating you have to finish a process before you become a resident. My wife wasn’t a resident for a full year until after we got married and she did the process. This means if she spent her money to buy a home during that time she would have been subject to the 100% tax.

This is what I mean. You can buy a house and live in it before you are a permanent resident. You can buy a house on a fucking visa and move in to the house and only later get whatever immigration document gives you lawful resident status.

My wife is on year 4 of the immigration process in the US. She’s still dealing with people misunderstanding how work authorization works with recruiters when applying to roles. She applied ages ago to get the condition removed from her permanent residency. This is even working for years at major companies and making 6 figures. We also bought a home after she started the process.

I know and understand that the US immigration process is not the same as what is in Spain or any other country, but bureaucratic bullshit exists everywhere and you don’t know the gotchas until you go through it yourself.

Saying someone needs to complete a process that can easily take 5+ years in some cases is just not realistic or fair. You shouldn’t be forced to rent, it leaves you ripe to being exploited as an immigrant often by people who are xenophobic and bigoted.

There are ways to change the dynamic of landleeches but screwing immigrants isn’t the solution. Everyone needs a place to live, nobody needs a place to rent out or to leave vacant as an investment. There should also be exceptions for things like commercial properties e.g. things zoned for business use. Shouldn’t be fucking an immigrant over for opening up a gas station or restaurant to make ends meet because the locals are too xenophobic to hire foreigners (a huge issue all over the world.) ___

Spain is adjacent to non-EU areas. Gibraltar is technically British and Morocco definitely isn’t in the EU… and when you go a couple of countries further there’s loads more.

Point being, no idea why you think Immigrants only come from the EU. Dominicans love moving to Spain… as do loads of people in countries of latin america.

I hope there is an exemption for people buying houses that they reside in full time. This type of policy is incredibly anti-immigrant otherwise.

There’s only one way the valuation can go, down.

They make luxury cars in an economy that seems to be heading for a recession in a political climate full of people who would rather roll coal than buy an ev, and the pro-ev people have been completely alienated by the guy’s politics.

The writing is on the wall, it’s just a matter of time before people see it. Dumpy may give the guy a pile of cash, but odds are that would be through SpaceX or another business, not Tesla.

Paying someone a billion dollars or more at a company should require unanimous shareholder approval. One nay should strike it down. It’s egregious and unnecessary.

A billion dollars can buy you a hundred people at 10 million a piece, that’s gonna get you a shitload of celebrity involvement and endorsement. The value of the shares in this asshole’s pay package is over 100 billion as of early December.

Getting everyone to be involved and knowledgeable about absolutely everything and to fight to make things right is beyond the capabilities of current humans. The more I know the more I understand I don’t know a lot about so many things beyond what i’ve experienced. Ignorance drives so many reactions (including the personal attacks from my comments here.)

I have met many individuals in this world who get very, very angry that someone else is doing x, y, or z - even if it has zero impact on them. Some of the reactions to my comments here about a very logical challenge that could have solutions with technology are attacked with illogical non-arguments and are a perfect example of how impossible it is to get humans to think critically about things when they have their own biases.

In what way does this graph say humans are not corrupt and taking advantage?

Even under communism the 1% had 4% of assets, that’s not 1% of assets like true communism should be. That in and of itself proves corruption to me. The fact that the USSR fell and a handful of 1%ers got the majority of industries for pennies on the dollar is egregious corruption. None of this is a criticism of communism. This is criticizing the actions of individuals who decided to be corrupt.

It’s just human nature. Some people call it “enlightened self interest” others call it nepotism, some call it survival of the fittest. Some call it gaming the system. In all cases it’s the same problem. Sometimes things can go well for a while but on a scale of even just a hundred years when an organization has more than a couple hundred people it simply goes sideways.

Based on your comment history and how negative you are about absolutely everything… have you looked in the mirror lately?

Also keep in mind that I have simply made a hypothesis that humans are incapable of not being corrupt in organizations at scale. How in the fuck is that any one political leaning? The system itself is irrelevant. Even in communes where everyone “shares equally” there’s usually someone in leadership getting special exemptions and special treatment.

I’d love one, I don’t think humans are capable.

In very small organization sizes it’s possible but as people come and go eventually someone will get control to make decisions that put their interests or their connections interests ahead of the masses.

You’re wrong.

I think the flaw is human nature. All governments and organizations are corrupt. All implementations are always twisted to suit the greed of individuals.

It’s entirely possible to create policy and enforcement mechanisms that would mitigate or eliminate excessive greed but nobody with anything votes for it because they’ll lose out on their own personal greed by their measure. They want that chance to fleece the masses even if they aren’t in the club that’s already doing it.

Blame humans.

This doesn’t hurt the oligarchs so it’s not equivalent. Not reporting crashes does help the oligarchs. For balance we need ot remove at least as much, to make the rest of us “whole” so to speak.