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When I worked overseas it was you had to be there for an entire calendar year and make under 105k to be tax exempt.
U.S. Riots of May 2020 over George Floyd and others - ITT: a bunch of faggots butthurt about worthless internet stickers
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When I worked overseas it was you had to be there for an entire calendar year and make under 105k to be tax exempt.
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You still have to file, but you have a foreign income exclusion:
It's a bit more Byzantine than that, but that's the gist of it. I imagine 100k a year in most of those countries makes you at least very comfortable upper-middle class (and only that because the true upper class is so blindingly wealthy, politically connected, and tiny).
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Ah. Figured there had to be something, because otherwise IRS death squads would be even busier.
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Yeah healthcare is shit in 3rd world countries. Poors literally waste away from treatable disease and the government throws them a pittance that can't even cover medication (not really sure how much, but it can't be more than 100 bucks a month). If you do plan to move, make sure you can afford some good insurance.
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Honestly, the only reason we haven't seen either side seriously consider martial law or invoking the Insurrection Act is entirely because of the 2020 Election.
At this point, Biden is meant as the "safe" candidate and likely a backdoor for Kamala Harris to get her foot in the door since Tulsi torpedo'd her initial presidential bid like the Lusitania and the DNC had to improvise.
The Biden campaign is trying to bank on his image as a centrist/corporate Democrat to win over the Boomers, Karens, and yuppies in the suburbs who are likely liberal or moderate/centrist but aren't full-on leftist either. Despite this grand and big "epidemic of racism" the Dems have not made any serious public proposals of using the Feds or the military to quell any major resistance to BLM or Antifa and instead just continue to virtue signal about Orange Man Bad and "muh 1619" bullshit
If the bigwigs openly talked about martial law and federal crackdowns against "racists" then it would get a lot of the purple states and independent voters to go "Oh Shit!" and vote for Trump in droves. It's better for them to blame all this on Trump and paint him as a racist tyrant and accuse him of wanting to declare martial law.
At best, Trump has urged governors to deploy the National Guard to restore order and sent in US Marshals and Feds to go arrest specific ringleaders in Antifa and protect federal property from rioters.
Honestly, I think a GOP win in 2020 will be the thing that knocks the wind out of the Woke Left's sails since the DNC and the corporate elites will realize 2016 is not a fluke and the SJW useful idiots are no longer useful.
Barring some kind of truly major black swan event that is even more of a game changer than COVID-19 is (we're talking World War III or a Yellowstone explosion) then I think that 2020 is the last chance for both the America we know and love and the Woke Left as we know it today. If one wins, the other is doomed.
If 2020 ends up with four more years of Trump and significant DNC losses elsewhere, then I expect a cool down and a lot of the big corporations will quietly and subtly distance themselves from the Woke Left and memory hole their support for the SJW's as quietly and quickly as possible.
Then in a few years time, another culture war will flare up that is likely even more insane and deranged than Current Year and the cycle begins anew
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Here's another article with somewhat up-to-date statistics for the surge in violence that followed the death of George Floyd.
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Some notable quotes from the article in regards to the Ferguson Effect taking place in major cities.
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Gun violence is surging in cities, and hitting communities of color hardest
Communities of color have endured the weight of COVID-19, the recession and social unrest. They’re also bearing the brunt of a surge in gun violence.
A woman who knew the victim of a shooting cries at the scene, in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Tuesday, July 7, 2020.Spencer Platt / Getty Images
July 9, 2020, 9:51 AM EDT
By Safia Samee Ali
CHICAGO — For many major U.S. cities, this year has been marked by bullets and bloodshed.
Over 1,500 people have been shot in Chicago, almost 900 in Philadelphia, and more than 500 in New York City so far in 2020 — all up significantly from the same time last year (1,018 in Chicago, 701 in Philadelphia and 355 in New York).
The surge in shootings has been particularly painful for communities of color, which have disproportionately endured the weight of the COVID-19 crisis, the economic recession and social unrest following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis in May.
In New York City, after the number of shooting victims more than doubled from June 2019 to this June, every person who has been shot this July, nearly 100 in total, has been a member of the minority community, according to the police department. And in June, 97 percent of the shooting victims were minorities, the department said.
In Chicago, where minority communities have long struggled with deadly gun violence, shootings have increased 76 percent from the same time last year, with nearly all the bloodshed concentrated in the city's predominantly Black and brown communities on the South and West Sides.
101 pairs of shoes and a casket are laid out during a vigil to represent the 101 shooting victims in the 74 gun violence incidents that took place over the past week throughout New York City, at Borough Hall in New York on July 8, 2020.Angela Weiss / AFP - Getty Images
Among the victims was a 7-year-old girl, Natalia Wallace, who was fatally shot at a family gathering over the Fourth of July weekend on the West Side.
While a rise in shootings is common during warm months, this year has been much more complex, said Christopher Herrmann, a former crime analyst supervisor with the NYPD and professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
“There is a multiplication factor happening right now. Not only is it summertime violence, but there is COVID-19, police protests and job loss,” he said. “All of those factors are going to exacerbate violence, especially in communities that were already vulnerable.”
Predominantly Black neighborhoods in recent decades have averaged five times as many violent crimes as predominantly white communities, according to a 2016 study by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
These communities — already facing structural racism and barriers to opportunities — are now dealing with huge added causes of stress, Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, said.
“People who get involved in violence, many of them are financially insecure, housing insecure, food insecure — their whole life is insecure," he said.
In Louisville, as protests persist over the death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot in her home by Louisville Metro Police Department officers in March, there has been a doubling of nonfatal shootings compared to the same time last year, and a 40 percent increase in gun deaths.
From January to May this year, almost 75 percent of homicide victims were Black, according to the Louisville Police Department.
In Philadelphia, more than 30 people were shot over the Fourth of July weekend and 23 were shot within a 24-hour period. The city has seen a nearly 30 percent jump in homicides from the same time in 2019.
Bilal Qayyum, an anti-violence advocate in the city, said job loss and the lack of opportunity before the pandemic had left minority communities particularly vulnerable this summer.
“That kind of pressure consistently on a community, without any signs of changing, I really believe is helping drive the violence we’re seeing right now,” he told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ronnie Dunn, a professor of urban policy at Cleveland State University, called the surge in bloodshed "a perfect storm, a confluence of events that exposed all the societal inequities that exist."
“The Black community lives in a state of trauma when you look at all the maladies that adversely impact them,” he said. "These communities are the most vulnerable in our society, so a lot of these social and societal ills are going to manifest there earlier and more prominently.”
Atlanta had a 20 percent spike in shootings from the same time in 2019, with one of the youngest victims being an8-year-old girl, Secoriea Turner, who was shot while riding in a car with her mother over Fourth of July weekend. The violence comes amid unrest from the police killing of Rayshard Brooks, a Black man who was shot by a white office in a Wendy's parking lot on June 12.
Alethea Carter, 65, who has lived in Atlanta's Edgewood neighborhood all of her life, has been left shaken by the recent spate of violence.
“If they don’t kill us,” she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “we’re going to kill one another. It’s sad.”
Floyd's death has stoked a national reckoning about policing tactics and fueled calls to defund the police and reroute funds to community and social wellness causes.
Because of police mistrust, Webster said, people may be less inclined to call 911 if they see a crime occurring. In worse cases, officers themselves could step back and be less proactive as they face public backlash, he said.
“One thing that’s been observed in a number of cities after there is a very high profile incident of police abuse, there is a fairly substantial uprising in response to that, where you commonly do see increases in violence in communities that are most often plagued by this problem,” Webster said.
As shootings swell across the country, addressing the issue requires action on several fronts, including a federal response, Webster added.
“Communities are desperate for resources, particularly at this time, and it goes beyond what a city can do. This is really a national public policy issue,” he said. “People have to ask themselves how they can help the most vulnerable affected by the pandemic and economic impact of it.”
Another fundamental piece of the solution will also be confronting the issues surrounding policing, he said. “To reduce this violence we are going to have to come up with policing models and public safety models that extend beyond police these communities feel invested in and trust.”
Despite the uncertainty and unrest across the country, there are ways to curb the desperation that drives a lot of the violence, Webster said, and help bring opportunities and hope to communities of color.
“You have a lot of stressed-out people living on the edge that are not having a great deal of faith that the government has got their back,” Webster said.
Communities of color have endured the weight of COVID-19, the recession and social unrest. They’re also bearing the brunt of a surge in gun violence.
A woman who knew the victim of a shooting cries at the scene, in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Tuesday, July 7, 2020.Spencer Platt / Getty Images
July 9, 2020, 9:51 AM EDT
By Safia Samee Ali
CHICAGO — For many major U.S. cities, this year has been marked by bullets and bloodshed.
Over 1,500 people have been shot in Chicago, almost 900 in Philadelphia, and more than 500 in New York City so far in 2020 — all up significantly from the same time last year (1,018 in Chicago, 701 in Philadelphia and 355 in New York).
The surge in shootings has been particularly painful for communities of color, which have disproportionately endured the weight of the COVID-19 crisis, the economic recession and social unrest following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis in May.
In New York City, after the number of shooting victims more than doubled from June 2019 to this June, every person who has been shot this July, nearly 100 in total, has been a member of the minority community, according to the police department. And in June, 97 percent of the shooting victims were minorities, the department said.
In Chicago, where minority communities have long struggled with deadly gun violence, shootings have increased 76 percent from the same time last year, with nearly all the bloodshed concentrated in the city's predominantly Black and brown communities on the South and West Sides.
101 pairs of shoes and a casket are laid out during a vigil to represent the 101 shooting victims in the 74 gun violence incidents that took place over the past week throughout New York City, at Borough Hall in New York on July 8, 2020.Angela Weiss / AFP - Getty Images
Among the victims was a 7-year-old girl, Natalia Wallace, who was fatally shot at a family gathering over the Fourth of July weekend on the West Side.
While a rise in shootings is common during warm months, this year has been much more complex, said Christopher Herrmann, a former crime analyst supervisor with the NYPD and professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
“There is a multiplication factor happening right now. Not only is it summertime violence, but there is COVID-19, police protests and job loss,” he said. “All of those factors are going to exacerbate violence, especially in communities that were already vulnerable.”
Predominantly Black neighborhoods in recent decades have averaged five times as many violent crimes as predominantly white communities, according to a 2016 study by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
These communities — already facing structural racism and barriers to opportunities — are now dealing with huge added causes of stress, Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, said.
“People who get involved in violence, many of them are financially insecure, housing insecure, food insecure — their whole life is insecure," he said.
In Louisville, as protests persist over the death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot in her home by Louisville Metro Police Department officers in March, there has been a doubling of nonfatal shootings compared to the same time last year, and a 40 percent increase in gun deaths.
From January to May this year, almost 75 percent of homicide victims were Black, according to the Louisville Police Department.
In Philadelphia, more than 30 people were shot over the Fourth of July weekend and 23 were shot within a 24-hour period. The city has seen a nearly 30 percent jump in homicides from the same time in 2019.
Bilal Qayyum, an anti-violence advocate in the city, said job loss and the lack of opportunity before the pandemic had left minority communities particularly vulnerable this summer.
“That kind of pressure consistently on a community, without any signs of changing, I really believe is helping drive the violence we’re seeing right now,” he told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ronnie Dunn, a professor of urban policy at Cleveland State University, called the surge in bloodshed "a perfect storm, a confluence of events that exposed all the societal inequities that exist."
“The Black community lives in a state of trauma when you look at all the maladies that adversely impact them,” he said. "These communities are the most vulnerable in our society, so a lot of these social and societal ills are going to manifest there earlier and more prominently.”
Atlanta had a 20 percent spike in shootings from the same time in 2019, with one of the youngest victims being an8-year-old girl, Secoriea Turner, who was shot while riding in a car with her mother over Fourth of July weekend. The violence comes amid unrest from the police killing of Rayshard Brooks, a Black man who was shot by a white office in a Wendy's parking lot on June 12.
Alethea Carter, 65, who has lived in Atlanta's Edgewood neighborhood all of her life, has been left shaken by the recent spate of violence.
“If they don’t kill us,” she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “we’re going to kill one another. It’s sad.”
Floyd's death has stoked a national reckoning about policing tactics and fueled calls to defund the police and reroute funds to community and social wellness causes.
Because of police mistrust, Webster said, people may be less inclined to call 911 if they see a crime occurring. In worse cases, officers themselves could step back and be less proactive as they face public backlash, he said.
“One thing that’s been observed in a number of cities after there is a very high profile incident of police abuse, there is a fairly substantial uprising in response to that, where you commonly do see increases in violence in communities that are most often plagued by this problem,” Webster said.
As shootings swell across the country, addressing the issue requires action on several fronts, including a federal response, Webster added.
“Communities are desperate for resources, particularly at this time, and it goes beyond what a city can do. This is really a national public policy issue,” he said. “People have to ask themselves how they can help the most vulnerable affected by the pandemic and economic impact of it.”
Another fundamental piece of the solution will also be confronting the issues surrounding policing, he said. “To reduce this violence we are going to have to come up with policing models and public safety models that extend beyond police these communities feel invested in and trust.”
Despite the uncertainty and unrest across the country, there are ways to curb the desperation that drives a lot of the violence, Webster said, and help bring opportunities and hope to communities of color.
“You have a lot of stressed-out people living on the edge that are not having a great deal of faith that the government has got their back,” Webster said.
Some notable quotes from the article in regards to the Ferguson Effect taking place in major cities.
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Oregons Governor and Senators are screeching about the US Marshall's anally devestating the protest in front of the US Court House.
Its largely falling flat though, most national media isn't giving it any copy. If it wasn't obvious before about what narrative they wanted, its pretty ovious now. They wanted trump to crack skulls with the Army so they could shriek about how oppressed they are. Federal Marshalls whipping out the beating sticks on people attacking a Federal Court House doesn't have quite the same level of appeal.
Its largely falling flat though, most national media isn't giving it any copy. If it wasn't obvious before about what narrative they wanted, its pretty ovious now. They wanted trump to crack skulls with the Army so they could shriek about how oppressed they are. Federal Marshalls whipping out the beating sticks on people attacking a Federal Court House doesn't have quite the same level of appeal.
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What's the deal with Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah? Do you ever hear about them, or are they mostly quiet?
I don't get good info on the Philippines anymore, had the sense Duerte made a deal with them.
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I'd be willing to bet that 95%+ of these black and brown shootings involve other black and brown perpetrators, who these people would spin around so fast they'd get whiplash if they were arrested and start whining about BLM/ACAB/School-to-Prison-Pipeline, waah waah wahh.
Not my people, not my culture, not my problem. Solve it yourselves.
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OT: Anyone else think it's an eerie coincidence that Div2, viral pandemic societal collapse simulator went on sale for $3 at the beginning of February?
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It amazes me how in China some pretty good shows are censored. like the story of yanxi palace or the empress of China. Is your society so fragile that cleavage can shake the very Foundation of it? A pair of tits can shake all of
. lulz.edit: tang dynasty best china. Sorry you've been reduced to shilling for 50 cents a post because Winnie the pooh is still mad about America blaming them for doing fuck all when the wu flu hit. may trump have mercy on your pitiful soul because when ww3 breaks out it's essentially game over. so best kowtow to your Winnie huangdi whilst you can. Your century of humiliation may continue for another 1000 years.
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Honestly they kinda stick to their side of the island for the most part. There are a lot of places down south that ain't safe for non-Muslims, especially whites. They love kidnapping whites for quick cash. A friend of mine from Zamboanga, a very Muslim province, used to tell me that there's this beautiful beach with pink sand that whites love to visit, but they always have to hire hardcore private security or they'll get snatched.
Personally I think a lot of these seperatists them are in it for the money at this point. Like the New People's Army, which is kinda like Antifa (a good chunk of them are college educated in our best university) if they all lived in the mountains and did guerilla warfare instead of burning down cities. Those guys are total sellouts, they basically go to big farms and ask them to pay a "Revolutionary Tax" to fund their fight against capitalism. If you refuse, they burn down your farm and your tractors. It's just straight up extortion. Honestly the only thing I like about Duterte is that he sends his death squads up the mountain to clean them up.
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Why do these people look like soulless capitalist ugly pigs lol. And also looks like a pedo as well. And those glasses, every free speech hating fuck always wears those plastic glasses.Again - truer words.
They literally brought in a General with a military grade AI to shut down the narrative. This will be the norm in public affairs going forward.
It's not just being used on the campaign. It's being used to counter every administration narrative. This is why Trump never has a good news day.
Military Memetics : Dr. Robert Finkelstein : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A presentation on the odd concept of Meme Warfare, a scientific theory called Memetics, and DARPA's implementation of it.archive.org
Specs of the system. Read pages 64 - 68 to get a sense of how they control the theater. It's enlightening.
The name of the company operating all this is Main Street One. The owner's name is Curtis Hougland, this is his Linked In page. The information on this page gives a partial sense of their capabilities, there's a lot more to it than that.
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Occupying army?! Seriously? For protecting federal buildings?
All the more reason to consider Oregon as supporting an insurrection
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The ever-quotable Orwell spoke of "little beetle-like men" on the other side of the telescreen.
Cast out your image of the military as the Based Badass Club. Even a dumb civvy like me can tell it's an HR Department with guns on occasion.
Another Bush-era mistake was the "Support Our Troops" rhetoric that has decayed into "every desk jockey/pack mule/barracks janny who ever wore a uniform is now Big Boss".
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Cry me a river.
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Even the statues of the Virgin Mary aren't safe
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Well, they did say they wanted to attack religious iconography and burn all the churches because Jesus should be black, even though he'd be jewish.
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