I can’t even really disagree with you, but not trying still isn’t an option. It’s our job to at least try to convince our immediate peers.

It’s trivial to design an inheritance tax that doesn’t tax a family’s (first) home and starts above a certain amount (500k, a million, two, make it 10 for all I care) that still allows lower and middle classes to build reasonable wealth. It’s also not that hard to not have a million loopholes for the excessively rich. That only gets difficult when people fall for the usual lies, like “businesses will close down and you will lose your jobs”.

Start penalizing tax havens like Ireland.

Tax based on passport, allow for taxes at their place of residence to take priority (so, you can pay low taxes in Ireland, but if it’s less than our tax, you pay the rest here), tax them a lot if they relinquish their passport. No need to start international beef about this.

Tax property, tax inheritance, tax capital gains no matter if realized or not, tax passive income of all kinds. Tax them progressively and tax the highest brackets high enough that these giant fortunes actually shrink. There is no other way (well… besides revolution) to reduce the spiraling inequality which is at the root of major problems all over the world.

I don’t like sand.

They misspelled “lies about things all the time”.

If I claim I have super powers and there are 0 documented cases of me doing anything super natural,

Is it somehow hard for you to understand that there literally cannot be documented cases of Mossad killing someone and not being linked to it, because as soon as they were documented cases, they would be linked to it?

What theoretical evidence would you even need to believe in them being able to kill someone in secret?

Furthermore, your comparison doesn’t hold water because you’re turning the logic on it’s head. You are the one claiming Clark Kent does not have superpowers because there are lots of documented cases of him taking the bus instead of super-flying to where he wants to be.

Should I assume also that Mozambique intelligence carried out a gazillion sophisticated stealth assassinations that none of us has discovered yet?

No, but if you claimed that they never carried out a single one specifically with the argument that none was ever discovered you’d be falling for the same logical fallacy.

Also, compared to Mozambique, you know that Israel has far higher technological capabilities, a certain international backing and is in semi constant war alternating between cold and hot with most of it’s neghbour states, which makes one more likely to have both the need and the means to have successfully carried out secret killings than the other.

Especially since x (too lazy to research right now) assassinations by Mossad were discovered and linked to them, so you know they do kill people. And from there you basically claim they get discovered 100% of the time. Which is ridiculous.

That’s availability bias. Do you know how many they carried out that weren’t discovered as such?

I don’t know what to tell you man. The presence of the issue and the protests about it were far larger after her initial school strikes than before. Globally. And if you think that’s nothing, pray tell me what you have done that has had any global impact whatsoever.

And yes, I would praise a player that enabled their team (through motivation or else) to score 5 additional goals in a losing game, even if it meant they only lost 10:5 instead of 10:0.

Even without tangible achievements, boosting the climate movement on a global level like she did is not nothing.

She sparked Fridays For Future, the last German government got elected largely in the wake of their protests (among others) and achieved huge steps forward in transitioning our energy supply to renewables.

We are sadly now back to conservatives, but they won’t be able to reverse all that was achieved.

And just like that we’re at silly made up hypothetical situations to drive fear and an agenda. That’s not even worth entertaining.

It’s all hypothetical until it isn’t anymore. You’re literally the slowly boiled frog.

I would appreciate not being lied to. Call it “I can’t beelieve it’s not Honey”, write the proper list of ingredients on the back and I’m fine with it.

The only fact that matters is whose orders are the cops going to enforce.

Erm … So you actually don’t have a body whose job it is to make sure the government adheres to the constitution? It’s just a happy little accident?

What the actual fuck …

A King, a priest, a rich man and a sellsword are in a room. Those three man tell the sellsword to kill the other two. Who lives and who dies?

No! What? I’m shocked! Shocked! You hear me? Shocked!

That’s communism. The two are not interchangeable.

It’s an element of a planned economy which has been more commonly used in authoritarian socialist countries but isn’t exclusive to them.

(Fun fact because I just looked it up: There doesn’t seem to be one generally accepted definition of “socialism”.)

Please tell me it’s now called IED.