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In the current news climate we see that some figures and events tend to dominate the front-pages heavily. Still, there a
He changes the definitions of political ideologies in whatever way suits his current argument best. I thought he was just confusing a few views at first, but it’s pretty obvious by now that he does it intentionally.I’m sure he’ll chime in within a few minutes that he has never done anything like this in his entire life and that everyone else simply doesn’t understand what certa
I remember when fascist was a far left thing in luciom world …
Nope not a cult !
According to the Luciom dictionary of malleable political definitions, he was a dirty insane socialist.
They did stuff like this during the first term too. Just horrifically irresponsible things that puts peoples live in danger.
The type of people that conservatives claim they hold in high regard
Imho, the SC gave him the green light ….immunity concept is something that can be easily abused.
Giving immunity to someone that can pardon almost anyone is surely “not” a recipe for disaster .
It’s a full enforcing circle of no accountability.
And trump is exactly the kinda guy who will just keep pushing.
Let's not give them any ideas. I could see them using mail in ballots to figure out who to have the IRS audit or start looking into their mortgages.
Imho, the SC gave him the green light ….immunity concept is something that can be easily abused.
Giving immunity to someone that can pardon almost anyone is surely “not” a recipe for disaster .
It’s a full enforcing circle of no accountability.
Pretty much every controversial thing that has happened so far in 2025 under the Trump administration was predicted best by those who had already concluded Trump was a fascist that would surround himself with fascists.
That includes the corruption. Fascists always trends towards corruption, because fascism can't exist with transparency. Fascism is to the corrupt what dung is to flies.
Meanwhile, American institutions and media are desperately treating him and his cronies like they are "conservatives", which means they are assuming there is some kind of moral and ideological line that won't be crossed - and every time it is crossed they simply assume that this line was slightly lower than they expected. The truth is of course that there is no line.
Maybe not the next step, or even the step after. But this is probably where we end up, with women leading the charge.
“A clickbait article that confirms my internal misogyny? Don’t mind if I do!”
I don't enter unenforceable contracts that are asymmetrically protected for the other side. In Italy tenant protections are insane so you only rent with absurd guarantees (signatures of parents and so on) and all in the clear .
Then you still encour into problems that's when you sell all rental properties and go into the stockmarkets which pays more, is taxed less, and requires 0 effort to manage
That was just part of the joke loosey goosey 😀
Maybe you're just wound a little too tight kinda like them 'leftists' you imagine.
Then you still encour into problems that's when you sell all rental properties and go into the stockmarkets which pays more, is taxed less, and requires 0 effort to manage
I cant speak for Italy, but we had a rental for awhile, and there is a lot of ways to leverage a rental business to get tax cuts off your W2 income here.
As long as you dont run bad with tenants who abuse tenant friendly regulations and laws, rentals probably do significantly better here than stock market; depending on your mortgage rate and local market forces and regulations. A lot of very wealthy people here who build their wealth through rentals.
I cant speak for Italy, but we had a rental for awhile, and there is a lot of ways to leverage a rental business to get tax cuts off your W2 income here. As long as you dont run bad with tenants who abuse tenant friendly regulations and laws, rentals probably do significantly better here than stock market; depending on your mortgage rate and local market forces and regulations
Oh in italy as a private individual owning rental property it's beyond absurd. You don't even deduct property taxes (yes really). You don't deduct realtor fees (you do for capital gain not for rental income). These days at least you pay a flat tax on rent but if you choose that (which is low compared to income taxes, 21%), then you cannot increase the rent by inflation.
"leases" which we call contracts are 4+4 years and the landlord can't interrupt before then end (at the end of the 4 years you have one window to quit the contract).
And you can't kick bad tenants away. They stay months, sometimes years.
A lot of wealthy people here have real estate and rent it (because for a long while our capital markets were underdeveloped, inflation was rampant, and real estate was seen as the only protection against it) because of our european un-natural fear of stockmarkets.
Also, NOMINAL housing prices in Italy are the same levels of 20 years ago. Yes, really. Nominal
blue is price index (NOMINAL NOT INFLATION ADJUSTED) red is number of yearly transactions
