How would they “just do it”?

Federal taxes do not go thru states. They go from taxpayer to federal government at tax time, and from payroll processor to federal government for withholdings.

You want states out there hacking transactions?

Most payroll providers aren’t based in the same state, and most corporations don’t only operate in one state. Hell, most are headquartered in Delaware.

For the vast amount of Americans that money doesn’t touch any states besides Delaware.

Like, there’s a lot of reasons why what you’re suggesting just can’t happen.

No.

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If people stopped buying stuff, it wouldn’t translate to immediate loss of wages except for gig economy workers.

It’s not like production or stores would no to stop immediately counting on starting back up at the exact right moment.

and making a coordinated attempt to close land trade thru America…

What kind of logic are people using where that sounds like a snap decision with immediate results?

I genuinely am curious because apparently multiple people are coming to the same wrong conclusion.

Like if a 12 year old says they want to become a doctor, are you back the next day asking what the hold up is?

Is planning ahead just that foreign of a concept these days?

I never understood why the N word is racist because of history, but then being black makes it fine to say

Context.

I have the complexion of a brand new piece of printer paper, one of my friends who legit could have gotten a job as a Wesley Snipes impersonator constantly called me the n word. He called all his friends that, and eventually I used it in the same context he had towards me for like the 50th time that day without me even realize I was saying it.

It wasn’t a big deal, but it’s not like that magically gave me permission to say it anywhere at anytime.

I mean, it’s 2025 man, there’s white people all over who have been saying the n word. The context is what matters. I just don’t get how someone could think it’s a (pun intended) black and white issue.

Hell, the most popular rapper in America has been publicly complaining about how another black rapper says the n word. Flat out saying that it’s not a race thing it’s a culture thing. It was literally the outro to one of the biggest diss tracks of the biggest beefs in modern rap era.

https://genius.com/Kendrick-lamar-euphoria-lyrics

it still wouldn’t happen instantly

And if you look up you may be able to catch a glimpse of “the point” waaaaaaaaay up there as it passes over your head.

But your gonna have to ask someone else to point it out next time buddy

My bad, I forgot “moderates” the world over pretend there’s no way to plan ahead and when something happens there’s no time to react properly…

It’s all bullshit, I just forgot a moderate will show up to repeat the same lie.

At least it takes longer on lemmy than other social media.

Humans are just naturally racist

No they’re not.

Like, I wrote an indepth explanation, you completely missed the details, and then posted a summary that’s completely wrong…

I wonder where this movement started where people overly obsess about this

Evolution.

As a toddler you form your “in group” based on the people you see. Mostly that you are actually around, but also just exposed to on TV.

Anyone that you’re not exposed to is “out group” and you can use conscious thinking as an adult to include others in your ingroup but when you get old and lose mental ability you’ll fall back into “did I see people like that as a kid” distinction for “us” vs “them”.

For the vast amount of human history, if you ran into a group of different looking humans, they were a competitor and you either boned them or killed them.

People want to act like 10,000 years of human society makes us better than other animals, but that’s a blink of evolutions eye, we’re still animals and if we’re not socialized we’re gonna act like animals.

Can’t we already just treat people for who they are/their personality and not judge them by their skin color and also not prefer some ethnicities over others?

We do that by integrating society and children’s TV with integrated casts of diverse people.

Which is why conservatives and even some moderates opposed things like school busing and Sesame Street.

They’re not picking random shit that doesn’t matter, they’re planning decades in advance to make sure the next generation can be manipulated into thinking along racial lines rather than realizing there’s no just war except a class war.

Quick edit:

We can see it in modern day with the obsession of preventing kids from learning LGBTQ is a thing, they want kids to form their “us” group as just heterosexuals so that when that generation grows up they’ll view anything LGTBQ as “them”.

If he really wanted to show trump he’d have allied with Mexico to prioritize both their sea trade routes and making a coordinated attempt to close land trade thru America…

Instead he tried to appease fascists, which never fucking works.

As Snotty Nose Rez Kids love to say:

Fuck Justin Trudeau

Conceivably, you could run trials by having a judge (or panel of judges) bring forth the evidence they thought was important.

This is what cops are supposed to do.

They’re supposed to investigate a crime and narrow down from “everyone” to “the person who did it”.

Once they have enough evidence they bring it to the prosecutor who decides if it would win in court.

Then the state presents that evidence to a judge, and the defendant gets to defend themselves.

I’m a Powerball man…

Those are great odds!

So you’re tell me there’s a chance?

But the speed at which you turned your backs on us, and the lack of internal outcry speaks volumes.

With all due respect…

Canada’s problems rank pretty low on most Americans concerns at the moment.

It’s like if you’re neighbor’s house is burning down, and you come out to complain that the fire engine sirens woke you up from a nap and you’re upset we haven’t apologized yet…

Sorry and all that, but we have bigger concerns right now.

It’s a weird troll, just block them

Although Gabby Petito’s parents gave permission for her voice to be recreated in the American Murder: Gabby Petito series currently streaming on Netflix, her mother tells The Independent that a fake version of her daughter’s voice was “weird.”

She agreed to it for $ and now regrets it.

I’d have sympathy if they didn’t give permission, but if your the type of person to cash on in your daughters murder after the media circus has died down, I got zero.

College women’s rugby is an insanely brutal sport.

The skill disparity is just waaaaay to high. Like, I saw a guy’s scrum half get his arm snapped like a twig by a prop who put maybe 30% into the tackle. But that was more a fluke than anything.

But there were women who could hold their own with the guys in full speed scrimmages who would just go out there and destroy everyone. In a women’s game one single player can be the strongest, fastest, most agile, and have the most endurance of anyone on the field. For Men’s it’s rare for someone to get two of those.

It’s like doing a pickup basketball game full of 50 year old dudes at the YMCA, but also Shaq is there. The only thing that matters is which team Shaq is on.

Just 80 minutes of highlight reel every game. It’s why I always legitimately like watching the women’s game more. I wanna see 5 stuff arms in a row then a 50 meter break that ends intentionally veering into the fullback for a sixth stiffarm.

Two guys I played rugby with collided in a game.

One dude got a tooth knocked out, the other guy got it stuck in his forehead.

Like, stuck in his head, I tried to pull it out and couldn’t. So the guy who lost the tooth drove the other guy to the hospital to get his tooth back so he could take it with him to a dentist.

I just remember a time when social media didn’t seem to have so many political stuff

No, you remember when what you saw on social media wasn’t political. Now you’re older and pay attention to it.

Social media was political since day 1.

We don’t have the organ to sense pheromones, but we weren’t going to lose the ability to produce them first.

But also, it’s an armpit. A big slab of meat touching one of the hottest parts of your body. It’s going to trap heat which stimulates sweating.