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.
At the moment, lemmy is not great with comment integrity. If somebody deletes a comment (mod or the user themselves), the entire chain basically gets nuked.
So it looks like a conservative got embarrassed that they were supporting a white supremacist killer, and deleted their comments. Or maybe they got banned.
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.
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.
Shit like that is also a far, far better use of airspace/resources
It's not even just that people don't know about the green party, it's that we are stuck with a voting system that is inherently biased against 3rd parties being viable.
If we can switch to a better voting system like STAR or approval, it would be far better for the green party.
And the existing parties would have to compete for once, which would go a long way towards making them not dumpster fires.
None of us should ever have to go back. We need to vote them out of office like our lives depend on it. Because they very much may be if the right wing decides to go full Gilead.
It's not a perfect replacement, and I never claimed as such. But for most people's needs, gimp is perfectly capable.
That, and Gimp is quite a capable photo editing tool.
Homelander is the type to side with oil.
The next budget is due in a month, so there's a good chance he'll be gone after that.
So the lettuce has a nonzero chance of outlining his office.
The U.S. is about to dump billions in military aid for Isreal.
Here's France:
Amid fears the fighting to spiral into a wider regional war, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Tel Aviv on Tuesday and told top Israeli officials that he came “to express our support and solidarity and share your pain” as well as to assure Israel it is “not left alone in the war against terrorism.”
They're going to blame democrats for not voting for a moderate republican, even though republicans are the ones who can't get their act together and elect somebody who isn't pro-sedition.
Not only that, but there have been straight up death threats sent to republican from republicans over the house speaker circus.
So there will be no speaker.
Money/users/recognition isn't really what OP is suggest linux wins on.
This is a long video, but a good one. Definitely worth listening to in the background.
It explains a bit about how right wing media got to be how it is, as well as a story about bringing people back from right wing extremism.