Yes you pay less tax up to a yearly cap. The yearly cap for 2025 and 2026 is 1100 dollars. So if I was in the Union listed in the image here and had to pay 700 dollars then I would list it on my tax form and pay 700 dollars less on my taxes that year.

In my country you can get union dues back as a tax deduction.

Trump is asking the government to pay him 230 million just for investigating him.

He should stick to sniffing cocaine.

Not for much longer. While they may have the equipment but they are lacking the most important thing: manpower. They already lost a huge amount of men and they can’t really conscript more since that will just make the collapse come faster. All those men, dead, or fighting are just people that can’t work and pay taxes, can’t start families. It’s a productivity and demographic disaster. It’s unsustainable and you don’t need an economics degree to see it.

Though I suspect the reason Putin is keeping the war going is because he has no choice. He was offered one of the best peace deals by the US and they refused it. Why? Because Putin is scared. Once the war ends a lot of angry men with combat experience are going to return home. And those men will look at how the war was run, how some people were safe while they died in the mud. That’s just a revolution waiting to happen. It has happened before, World War 1 veterans overthrew the Kaiser in Germany and installed the Weimar republic. The 1917 Russian revolution was started by WW1 veterans. Hitler was a WW1 veteran and he tapped into the anger of other veterans to help him gain power early on.

It worked pretty well because there were a lot of regulations that kept it in check. Capitalism works fine if it’s regulated either by governments or by workers through unions.

They found Stephen Miller’s diary?

An MP40 I guess but they’re pretty expensive, the cheapest goes for 16 000 dollars (the fully automatic ones).

He was just a regular nazi not a grammar nazi.

Yeah.

Kind of sad that people are acting like he just started comitting war crimes when he ordered the killing of the survivors when he was already committing war crimes because he ordered attacks on civilians. Also not like this is something new for the US, they’ve been doing the same shit with drones for decades now.

My plan is to talk shit on the internet while watching Americans letting their country burn while expecting other people to come up with solutions for their problems. It will go fine until the US actually burns down and takes down the whole planet with it and most likely the country I live in. Not much else I can do besides that. How about you?

Blame Douglas McArthur, he came up with the idea of keeping her grandfather as Emperor and he made sure to exclude any evidence that could be used to try him for war crimes.

The Japanese Imperial family is still in power because the US found them a useful tool for controlling the Japanese population after the war. Also she is not responsible for the sins/crimes of her grandfather.

If the Japanese people wish to idolize her and make her the Empress who are we to deny their wishes?

So how long are Americans gonna watch Trump make a mockery of justice?

They are so conservative that women got the right to vote federally in 1971. In one Canton they only got the right to vote at the local level in 1990 after a Supreme Court decision. They were the last Western Democracy to do so.

You think Trump is actually working? He just lets his goons do whatever and if they do good he just claims their achievements. He’s way too busy with interior design at the White House, golfing, napping and watching Fox News to actually check up on them.

The guy I was answering to claimed that the countries were under Turkish or Russian control for more than half a century. Which is not true. Hungary was under Turkish control for around 100 years but you’re not going to tell me that Turkish influence from the 17th century has such a major effect on today’s Hungary.

And while Hungary was under Soviet control it was not really a peaceful and compliant control as they had multiple resistances and popular uprising against them, starting with the 1956 revolution which the Soviets had to put down by killing thousands of Hungarians.

So they’re doing better without him? That’s kinda funny.

So according to that graph you linked, Harris would have won everywhere except the bottom 8 countries, one of which is Russia and some have elected Russia friendly governments. Also out of those 7 countries, Slovenia, Slovakia and Hungary were not under Russian or Turkish influence. They were under Austrian Habsburg influence. Which only leaves Serbia, Bulgaria, Georgia and Moldova(the last two which have active Russian troops occupying their territory).

You also assume that their dislike of Harris is due to misogyny when it could be due to her policies. Even so, she would have won the election with over 50% of votes in literally 75% of European countries, some of which were under Turkish or Russian occupation or influence(Romania, Kosovo, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Greece and Croatia). Shit, some of these countries don’t even vote their own head of goverment with over 50% and have to hold runoff elections most of the time. Harris getting over 50% of votes means she did better than their own homegrown politicians (though I assume the result are this way because of the binary choice presented, as most European elections have a plurality of candidates and the vote is split amongst them).