Yeah, we often see the entire non-terrorist Muslim population being held responsible for not doing enough to condemn terrorism, but Christians are let off the hook for the atrocities of their fundamentalists.

It’s negative, yeah, but that’s not the same thing either. I can’t believe I’m having to defend the position that not changing at all in 30 years could be seen as anything less than ideal. Did I touch a nerve or something?

You’re the one that made an assumption. I said nothing about whether I thought they were happy. If you’re going to moralise at people for jumping to conclusions, you could at least base it on something they actually said.

It’s nice seeing my parents but everything else in my hometown is depressing.

The things that have changed are depressing because they represent lost youth. But, the things that stayed the same are also depressing, because it means the same bunch of people just spent 30 years on a treadmill and got nowhere.

…you do understand that “stop taxing the rich” in that sentence doesn’t literally mean set it to 0%, yeah? The only strawmanning here is you taking things way too literally. You still argued exact the thing I was talking about, i.e. that taxing them might make us lose revenue therefore we shouldn’t do it.

Also, ad hominems get you blocked, so bye bye

No one’s saying this, this is a straw man.

…and then you go on to spew exactly that talking point at length.

I’m not saying it doesn’t ever happen, but we really need to stop talking about it like it’s such a serious threat to the country’s financial stability that we should chicken out and stop taxing the rich.

The billionaires in all those other tax haven countries also repeatedly make the same threats to their own governments too. They’re playing us for chumps.