No, but he is finding out why twitter had all of its policies on combatting misinformation before he took over and gutted the staff… to prevent getting sued. You can say anything you want in America and the government can’t tell you that you aren’t allowed to say it, but you are still accountable for the damages caused by what you say… just ask Alex Jones.

But operating in other countries doesn’t afford the same protections from government scrutiny.

Disinformation campaigns are part of the reason social media is causing as much social strife in the world. It is not outside a logical line of thought that governments are going to attempt to minimize the damages from platforms like Twitter when they can. You may not beat misinformation, but you can minimize the financial incentive to promote it if you fine the fuck out of it when you find it.

Ha! They got you to declare it as an occupation. You better not miss a tax filing or you’re screwed… /s

You misspelled tax ‘scam’…

Try to understand that influencers and content creators are human beings and not infallible. I don’t think Mark or Derek are the greatest people in the world, but they are trying to put educational and entertaining content out into the world, and don’t seem to be malicious in intent.

Give them a break and see where they land down the road. If they turn out to be trash, judge em all you want. As someone that doesn’t spend the time and effort to pass my experience on to others, I’ll give them a bit of wiggle room on the politics associated with operating in the public attention economy.

Might be a reasonable argument if you didn’t have 76 years of his rotten behavior as precedent in processing the decision made by a jury of his peers…

“All these sneaky, unarmed, women and children, Hamas agents, with the strategic beachfront property, are forcing us to protect ourselves.”

They did their damnedest to kill it with terrible decision making, though…

What about that dick-vein?!

“We’ll pay you a lot of money….at the end of your tour…”

Do what you want, but don’t kid yourself into thinking you’ll help the situation by exercising a vote for Trump, 3rd party, or abstaining from voting. Expect a lot worse treatment for Palestine, its citizenry, and other middle eastern countries from his opponent.

That being said, you may not have to worry about who you’ll vote for ever again if the fascists gain control… you’ll have a lot of other things to worry about, but voting won’t be one of them.

Get an EV and you’ll never have to go to a gas station again. None of the chargers I’ve seen have ads on them.

Unfortunately for you, no one gives a shit about your opinion. The courts’ opinions are the only ones that matter.

Anyone that committed crimes on Jan 6th deserves what they get. The people behind planning the coup prior to Jan6th will get their day in court and, hopefully, justice will be served for them, too.

You do recognize that secession won’t be a simple process where they can just leave and we keep going about our business as usual, right?

Texas has a huge effect on the national economy. A ton of commerce, energy production,manufacturing, and transport all goes through the Houston ship channel, Mexican points of entry, and across the state through I-10 and I-35.

Secession would mean almost immediate war between the US and Texas, which would cause not only significant loss of life but instability and inflation to a large number of both sides’ civilian population.

The “let them go” arguement is short sighted and unrealistic. It’s just not going to happen.

You don’t get to claim part of the equity just for living with someone and paying part of their mortgage. You would have to set up a joint venture or other business structure, otherwise you would just pay rent to the owner/ roommate like they were your landlord.

And even if the partnership was legally set up where you got a percentage for paying rent on a room in a house, unless you retroactively paid part of their downpayment, it would be an insignificant percent the home’s value…probably to the tune of 1/360th of the home’s value, minus the downpayment, minus the growth in value for however many years they have been paying on the loan, and your share would essentially be less than half of your rent going to the value of the investment due to taxes and insurance.

Most of what you are paying for on a home is taxes and insurance. My mortgage is about 65% taxes and insurance. If I were to rent my home, should I pay all of the taxes and insurance that occur in real time so the tenant has a less expensive place to live or pass that on to the renter as a cost of living in the residence?

I’m not a landlord because I ran the numbers and this just barely profitable in a best case scenario where you had nothing but great tenants, no downtime between renters, and no major house repairs, but there is a huge amount of risk with letting stranger occupy your most valuable asset. The expectation that a home owner should offer a discount on the actual cost of the home because they get to sell the house and recoup the asset value is not realistic. When you consider the amount of damage, additional maintenance, turnover costs, downtime between renters, and a whole mess of other things that cost additional money that come with renting to tenants, it is understandable why it’s hard to find cheap rent.

It sucks that this is how the system is, but housing prices have to come down and wages have to come up before this problem gets fixed, and the landlord isn’t the demon you think he is. Corporate firms buying up hundreds of houses to manipulate prices up on the other hand…

877 cash NOW!!!

Fuck… advertising works like a muh….

Or how about make a call to the registered number at the address the threat was called in at… then send a car over to verify.

You can literally de- escalate in 60 seconds and verify in as much time as it takes to send swat in to fuck shit up.

Representatives don’t need to own a home in DC.

The president doesn’t own the White House, it comes with the position and goes to the next person elected after they serve their term.

There is no reason the state can’t own property in DC that comes with use during service.

Sounds like incentive to actually legislate in ways that constituents support.

Accountability can be a bitch if you act like an asshole all day.

“Not to exceed the greater of $25,000 or three times…”

Jail time is the only justice. Max fine is 25k.

… try… they’re going to try to take over Taiwan.