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I never said there shouldn't be a transitional phase, I simply think taxation is unethical and should ultimately go at some point in the future. Believe me, I'm not some "taxation is theft" brainlet who's advocating for its immediate removal. Also I'd just like to clarify that I'm not exactly an anarchist.

Absurdly moronic is kinda harsh don't you think? Especially coming from a person who in the past has made a habit of reporting of reporting others for breaking rule 1. Please keep your anger in check. And worth keeping in mind that there are several positions on taxation outside of the default taken by more liberal ideologies. Marxists like me favor a stateless endgame where the community solely relies upon itself for support, not state revenue. Most leftists also disgree with the notion that police and military are strictly necessary.

Just want to establish my position here first and foremost, so you can see where I'm coming from: Fuck taxation. The best thing I could possibly say about taxation is that it could be a valuable tool in alleviating some of the woes caused by wealth inequality. Tax doesn't fix wealth inequality itself, and without wealth inequality tax would not be necessary. In the best case scenario, tax provides a short term solution for the quality of life of people living in bad economic conditions. Right now, a lot of us are living in abysmal economic conditions, still being taxed, and having absolutely nothing to show for it. With that out of the way, let me just say, you're completely detached from reality if you don't think $150 is a significant cut to working class income. I can think of several instances where $150 would have made the difference in me being able to eat and afford my medication. The burden of tax shouldn't fall on those of us who can hardly afford to pay it, and beyond that, I'm sure you can see where I'm coming from when I say I'd rather my money help me than help the federal government fund the defense budget. And here's what's really confusing to me, why tax sex workers specifically? Well, I can't draw many conclusions about you but the OP doesn't paint a good picture here at all. I mean take a look at the implications there, the post hints at the notion that sex work isn't real work and that it's somehow a reprehensible economic venture, not to mention the implication that women working in the sex industry have no other marketable skills or talents and the fact that all of this is thinly veiled behind a frankly pathetic "Onlyfans is a bubble" excuse. Most of the rhetoric I read against sex work and sex workers seems to be pretty deeply rooted in this misogynistic attitude against any form of female sexual expression. Call me paranoid but I'm suspicious of the premise of this thread on that basis alone.

Doesn't mean 10-15% isn't harsh. Especially if you're only making around 1k-1.5k a month which is honestly par for the course for a smaller OF creator. That's more than enough to put you below the poverty line. Sex workers already pay taxes, it's not ethical to burden them with more just because they're in a different line of work, and again, certainly not in the middle of a pandemic and certainly not when the economy is this badly fucked.

You don't really have much to go by then. You can't really say current WoW is inferior in terms of how fun it is if your only experience with it is one really bad expansion and one really mediocre expansion. Shadowlands feels like a reiteration of what made legion great minus a lot of the progression issues like random legendaries and titanforging. You can craft your legendaries now and you can very clearly understand what kind of gear you're going to get from where, progression in Legion was fun but progression in Shadowlands feels almost as good as it did in Wrath and BC.

Inferior in terms of what? And worth keeping in mind that wrath WAS one of those expansions I was talking about.

Hardly. 4 good expansions and 3 bad ones came out in sort of an on-off cycle since the merger. The current expansion is good, just flawed in a few really important ways that desperately need to be addressed. It was the same story with Legion, and that one turned out to be one of the best expansions they've made in years.

WoW Shadowlands. This is almost a perfect expansion, with a couple of major complaints. Covenants desperately need tuning across the board, so you aren't punished for going off spec, and Torghast is kind of a disaster. I could go on about Torghast for hours. TL;DR: it's like RoR2 and a shitty WoW dungeon combined to create perhaps the single most infuriating progression system Blizzard has ever introduced.

Sex workers are working class individuals and imposing a tax, especially such a heavy tax as 10-15%, would be unethical at best. Not to mention calling OF a bubble is kind of silly, that's like calling the porn industry as a whole a bubble. Honestly, there's not really even such a thing as market oversaturation when it comes to porn because porn has always been in great supply. There are billions of humans on this planet who want to jack off and a comparative handful of people who want to be jacked off to. This entire thread just comes off as a dig at sex workers. It's worth keeping in mind that M4A and free education are immensely more popular policies with American democrats than UBI, and they've also been proven the world over whereas UBI's had a comparatively experimental run. We're more likely to get those first and we probably won't see UBI become mainstream until automation causes an unemployment crisis. As for the rest of your post, agreed 100%, going after working class income during a global pandemic is, for lack of better wording, extremely fucking stupid.

I'm assuming his response was deleted by a mod or something, but yes, he's a little unhinged.

I finally completed my When They Cry collection. I couldn't pass up Higurashi and Ciconia all on sale. ? Now if only Higanbana could come to Steam as well.

Or maybe they just don't want a rambling quadruple post.

Dunno if you missed it but I did ask you to cite your sources. You still have yet to do so.

Wow, that's a new one, saying the federal government and by extension the Trump administration are powerless to prevent disaster of this scale. That's... almost complete nonsense, actually. I'm curious about how you came to that conclusion in the first place. Show me your sources. Calling it now: Conservative opinion piece on why a federal mask mandate would be unconstitutional. Collectivism and individualism are some of my favorite buzzwords, they're great at outing people as political illiterates. Not to say collectivism and individualism have no conceptual meaning, but god, "collectivist insect colonies"? Why have any nuanced understanding of complex economic and political dichotomies when you can just boil them down to extremely broad and vague terms that aren't even mutually exclusive to begin with? Actually, there's a pretty common criticism of this exact line of thinking you might hear from socialists, if you ever take the time to hear one out: The notion of socialism being a perfectly collectivist concept and capitalism being a perfectly individualist concept doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Take our late capitalist hellscape we're living in now for example. I don't know what your economic status is but I'm quite poor, not eligible for welfare despite being a bona fide head case, and my options for higher education are basically next to none. The system for someone like me is purely coercive, I work or I die, simple as. This simple fact means I don't get to enjoy the same personal liberties as an individual who makes $5k a year more than me, and that individual doesn't enjoy the same liberties as someone who makes $5k per year more than them, and so on. The poorer you are, the greater sacrifice you have to make to your personal individual autonomy to survive, and that arguably isn't very individualistic. That said, while I may be envious of that guy who makes 5k a year more than I do, we're all envious of that greedy asshole who sits at the very top, and that's what collectivism is for. When collectivist structures are introduced, they help level the playing field so more people can enjoy more individual liberty. Unions are a great example of this. If you have the time, there's this great horror movie called "The Platform". It's a critique of capitalism and how economic class divides and alienates people and destroys lives. TL;DR you can't be independent if your autonomy is infringed upon, and you can't prevent others from infringing upon your individual autonomy if you aren't part of a collective

You need to be more specific if you want your argument to hold any water.

Ah yes, because it's oh-so sad that the man who's been DENYING us that healthcare reform and being totally negligent in his handling of a global pandemic is getting his cosmic justice. I'm in tears. Fuck off. Trump can rot in hell for all I care, the blood of thousands of not millions of innocent people is on his hands and I hope he gets what he deserves.

I've seen some delusional people in my time but you Trump cultists have some special kind of brain rot.

Not all too worried about the idea of pence being president considering there's very likely only a few months left of the Trump administration. The Trump cult is never gonna be won over but if you don't think the debate has been hell on his public image you're either blind or not paying attention.

Hoping for a speedy outcome, Don!

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I'm pretty clear on what my point is, I'm guessing Cyberpunk 2077 is going to be the quintessential "wow! cool future!" game because they're not going to do enough to create a compelling cyberpunk narrative, that's my point and always has been.

Again, I think you're missing the point.

I mean, yes, direct action against corporations would be advisable but not currently practical in my opinion. I'm saying more that if you want a cyberpunk narrative to be compelling you shouldn't stop at "corporations bad".

Corporations are usually depicted as the bad guys because actual corporations are bad. Not a tough concept. That said, it's not really enough to be critical of corporations. A major theme of cyberpunk as a genre is a critique of capitalism's tendency to give way to corporate power, which BEYOND being above the law for all intents and purposes, is always highly unethical. Bad labor conditions, anti-union practices, profiting off of disasters which leave everyone else in a financial hell.