https://investors.yum.com/news-events/financial-releases/news-details/2023/Yum-Brands-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Results-and-Increases-Dividend/default.aspx

We repurchased 10 million shares totaling $1.2 billion at an average price per share of $119.

They are just greedy. They have the money, but giving the money to the rich is evidently more important.

https://cwa-union.org/stock-buybacks-hurt-workers

What holds youtube from blocking all videos to addblock users just as other sites do?

It’s a constant game of cat and mouse, an arms race till the end of time. You can’t block videos from ad-block users if you can’t tell which users are using adblock and which are not.

I don’t understand why self hosted videos aren’t more popular

It’s quite complicated technologically, and requires quite a lot of storage space. Viewers only go where the creators go, and the creators have no reason to go to someplace that is more of a pain in the ass to host videos.

Do you not know what a genocide is?

I know quite well. The republican party is gearing up for one against queer folk.

Man, you are ignorant. You just completely ignored the Hamas charter post, didn’t you?

Man you are ignorant, not even attempting to understand any nuance and jumping straight to worst case made up scenario.

Congratulations for completely failing to understand the issue at hand, and completely misrepresenting everything. Good loaded question though.

A state and it’s people are two different things. I would have thought conservatives (who are generally anti-government) would have understood as much.

But I guess nuance isn’t needed when your primary goal is to make sweeping generalizations.

committing a second Holocaust

anti-zionists

One of these things is not like the other 🎵

Every year the onion does amazing work, and then stuff like this happens that reminds me that they ultimately can never match this level of irony.

Why play chess with a pigeon?

I didn’t say they weren’t a leftist. I said what you interpreted from them was incorrect. Perhaps that’s my fault because what I said was a very intonation heavy sentence.

So to rephrase:

That ain’t a leftist that is coming to the defense of Hamas.

You’re the one posting this here to give this attention.

Clearly this was important enough to you to post.

That ain’t a leftist coming to the defense of Hamas. Just because you can’t understand in good faith what somebody is saying doesn’t mean you can make shit up.

You’re so close to getting it. Think a little bit harder and maybe you’ll realize there is a reason leftists aren’t coming to Hamas’ defense.

Maybe if you can get that you’ll be able to piece together how harmful republican policy/leaders are to children.

Can you answer my question or not?

Are you referring to your question about my ideals or values, respecting distribution of benefit from land usage?

I’m referring to this one:

ideal that land is natural and should benefit everyone equally.

Do you disagree with this?

I have framed the conversation around my skepticism that Georgism meaningfully contributes to leftism or functions as a leftist tendency

The goal of leftism is to create a better, more progressive society. With that means that the “end goal” of the state must be determined, which means the income, whether monetary/resource based/etc must be determined as well.

You can’t have a state that doesn’t have a defined input/output. So if you want to meaningfully contribute to an ideal leftist society/government, one such meaningful contribution is solving the government’s input/output problem.

Taxing land is one such solution to this problem.

including lands, being utilized socially and also toward benefit that is private.

Under georgism, all land gets taxed regardless of who owns the land, how they own the land, whether it is private or personal, and regardless of whether or not private property still exists.

If you’re not going to answer my questions that I don’t see the need to respond to your statements.

Georgism tends not to augment leftist theory or objectives

And like I already said, not every policy is implemented to solve every problem.

Georgians want landlords and business owners to be taxed such that …

And this is a sweeping generalization. Not all georgians agree on every aspect of georgism. There are georgians that want to keep a pure “free market” capitalism, there are those that want a mixed economy, and those that want socialism or communism in addition to georgism.

It’s not a one size fits all camp.

ideal that land is natural and should benefit everyone equally.

Do you disagree with this?

Leftists want to abolish profit

This is also just a sweeping generalization. Just as with georgism, leftism isn’t something that can be defined by a simplified, sweeping generalization. Leftists are a diverse group.

You’re not talking about policy, which is where the actual conversation is at.

Not every policy is implemented to solve every problem. So listing all the things georgism doesn’t solve is a moot point.

No matter what, the state needs a source of income. And georgism is to my knowledge the least bad of all options, all of which are bad.

The rules on who can own what land for what purpose, private or personal is independent of the rules on how tax is collected.

Bombing civilians is in fact a war crime. It isn’t fake news.

Shit like that is also a far, far better use of airspace/resources

The sad thing is that non conservatives don’t know the difference between ideas and OUTCOMES.

If you knew even a little bit about abortion law statistics, you’d realize that this is reversed.

One of their “best” ideas was defund the police…

Tell me you don’t know anything about democrats without telling me…

which has turned our cities into the Wild West.

Yeah, it definitely has nothing to do with anything else. A giant and complicated problem can always be explained by a single simple thing.

Or reckless unnecessary spending which is killing all of us with inflation

You really don’t understand how much Trump spent. It wasn’t Biden.

And inflation is a lie, it’s corporate greed.

Crazy, it’s almost as if conservative ideas aren’t able to compete with progressive ones.