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saargrin commented on Dutch Lawmakers Approve a 36% Tax on Unrealized Crypto, Stock, and Bond Gains   imidaily.com/europe/dutch... · Posted by u/JumpinJack_Cash
Tyrubias · a month ago
Many ultra-wealthy individuals borrow against their holdings to avoid having to sell their assets and therefore paying taxes. They shouldn’t be allowed to have their cake and eat it too. Relying on “realization” for taxation stops being reasonable when access to cash is basically the same as income. If anything, not taxing unrealized gains essentially punishes people who labor for income and unfairly favors people who use asset appreciation as a form of income.
saargrin · a month ago
well if thats the practice you find problematic, why not tax that

how would fluctuation in stock prices be handled?

if stocks go down , do you get a refund ?

this seems like a paperwork and fraud riddled method to achive a very minor impact on very few people who could be taxed directly when they access actual cash

saargrin commented on Why your 40s can be the most exhausting decade of your life   scroll.in/article/1090618... · Posted by u/vinni2
AndrewKemendo · a month ago
> Gets better in your 60s

I (41) can only speak for my group but at least in my reasonably well adjusted friend group, the idea that we will make it to 60 is laughable.

I wonder what the average Millennial retirement plan age will be.

saargrin · a month ago
why would you not make it to 60?

you mean like "the purge" or like climate issues ?

saargrin commented on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem   basicappleguy.com/basicap... · Posted by u/andrem
saargrin · 4 months ago
didnt happen to me so far
saargrin commented on "Switzerland is as deeply polarized as the USA"   news.uzh.ch/en/articles/n... · Posted by u/sharpshadow
Rochus · a year ago
> "Switzerland is as deeply polarized as the USA"

Such a claim is obviously wrong, since in Switzerland we have a great many parties with all sorts of political positions, not just two. To divide the political spectrum into only "left" and "right" is an oversimplification. Switzerland still has a healthy distribution of the population across the political spectrum, and it regularly happens that so-called "right-wing" parties advocate left-wing issues and vice versa (as can be seen again in the last vote). As in the USA, however, academic dellusion is also spreading in this country; I recently found this video which has a good explanation for this phenomenon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Peima-Uw7w (Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things).

saargrin · a year ago
Pffff... what do these people from..ummmm.. University of Zurich's Department of Political Science know about Swiss politcs eh
saargrin commented on A Weekend at the Immersion Larp Festival   mssv.net/2024/08/21/a-wee... · Posted by u/adrianhon
aredox · 2 years ago
If they roleplayed the Israeli side (and no, not "Jewish", those are not the same thing, all Jews are not stand-ins for Israel, thank you), someone like you would have dunked that they "spoke in their place"/"stole their voice" and had no legitimacy to do so.

(Oh, by the way, any indication that nobody roleplayed the Israeli side? Or are you just taking offense from supputations about something you know little about? Talk about "dunking" on "apriori"...)

saargrin · 2 years ago
all jews are not stand ins for israel, which is why there have been tens of terror attacks on non-israel related jewish community centres/religious facilities and so on in the past month ,right?

so as preventative measure for "someone like me" complaining , your suggestion is to deny one of the sides in the conflict a voice completely?

fair and balanced, arent you .

saargrin commented on A Weekend at the Immersion Larp Festival   mssv.net/2024/08/21/a-wee... · Posted by u/adrianhon
cultofmetatron · 2 years ago
One of the most damaging things israel has done (aside from killing entire school districts worth of children) has been the disastrous PR the jewish community.

Israelis basically go out of their way to tell everyone that they represent the will of all jews and will attack jews who object to this war. I know several jews personally who are horrified by whats going on in gaza including a few who are afraid to speak out because of the way more outspoken members of their community are being targeted. One I know was banned from a jewish reddit he frequented because he had the nerve to point out that palestinians used the watermelon because they were not allowed to display their flag.

But to also point out, nettenyahu himself funded Hamas's campaign so that they'd win against the PLO because nettenyahu himself is a staunch authoritarian and relies on the existential threat posed by israel's enemies in order to secure his power. Its a matter of record now that egypt had intel about the impending oct 7 attacks and warned Israel ahead of time only to have nettenyahu sit on that info and do nothing.

But what do I know, I'll probably be flagged for this post anyway.

saargrin · 2 years ago
im not sure how any of that refutes my statement that i find a "roleplay" of gaza cituation that excludes jewish perspective duplicitous

and what does being horrified with the goings on in gaza have to do with anything? let me assure you there are plenty of israeli citizens who are equally horrified, yet should probably be included in a "roleplay" that purports to represent the conflict

saargrin commented on A Weekend at the Immersion Larp Festival   mssv.net/2024/08/21/a-wee... · Posted by u/adrianhon
aredox · 2 years ago
If they roleplayed the Israeli side (and no, not "Jewish", those are not the same thing, all Jews are not stand-ins for Israel, thank you), someone like you would have dunked that they "spoke in their place"/"stole their voice" and had no legitimacy to do so.

(Oh, by the way, any indication that nobody roleplayed the Israeli side? Or are you just taking offense from supputations about something you know little about? Talk about "dunking" on "apriori"...)

saargrin · 2 years ago
im going by the text of the article

you're welcome to present a better source

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saargrin commented on Scientists believe they now know where the dinosaur-killing asteroid came from   cbc.ca/news/science/chicx... · Posted by u/cratermoon
saargrin · 2 years ago
Finally we can avenge our reptilian ancestors!
saargrin commented on Ireland, Norway, and Spain to recognise Palestinian state next week   bbc.co.uk/news/live/world... · Posted by u/gnulinux996
runarberg · 2 years ago
Newly independent states electing their resistance movement to government is quite common actually and seldomly a major issue (relatively to pre-independence). In recent history we had FLN in Algeria and ANC in South Africa. In Northern Ireland Sinn Féin just got elected to government without issues, and they are likely to win a major electoral victories in the Republic of Ireland as well, nobody is worried about that.

An independent Palestine will likely have democratic institutions which protects tyrannical movements from misusing their powers. Most resistance movements obey these structures as long as they are fair.

Now if Israel continues their interference (which is very likely) we may expect violence to continue regardless of how the Palestinian government is composed. This happened after Irish independence (which saw British interference in Norther Ireland) despite Sinn Féin not entering government.

saargrin · 2 years ago
i dont think Sinn Fein had quite as radical a worldview tbh

Also,unlike Hamas, Sinn Fein never had the goal of taking over UK or that of establishing a global Khalifate, as Hamas and their Muslim Brotherhood peers do

u/saargrin

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