I do suppose they serve popcorn at cage-fights.Dog and Cock fighting has been banned in most of the US for many decades, but I think NM turned a blind eye until the 90s?
If popcorn had been discovered/invented by the time of the Roman Coliseum Gladitorial spectacles, it was only available in Mesoamerica, best enjoyed during open-heart sacrifices?
Thanks to EricS for introducing the term "performative cruelty" to this list a few years ago... it resonates more and more with our unfolding fascism in the US and perhaps much of the formerly liberal(ish) West?
Thanks for the reminder to send some money to u24.gov.ua.
tx,It's an easy diversion of my AMZN Prime Membership, my APPL and MSFT cloud, META (oculus), GOOG, OpenAI expenditures to U24.gov.ua. By easy I don't mean trivial, just an easy decision. The billionaires and the fascists they support *do* require our participation in their games, as rigged as they are.
Tax Freedom Day <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Freedom_Day>is estimated quite widely but the latest concensus number i've heard is April 12. megaBillionaires (such as those lined up behind Trump at his inauguration) are hard to pin down (primarily using fully secured low-interest loans to pay expenses while deferring "income" into "asset growth". Most measures have their "tax freedom day" estimated somewhere in the first week (or even first hours) of the year, especially if there are offshore and crypto hiding schemes involved. Somehow this doesn't seem to motivate the "small government" or "anti-elite" MAGA types?
War Tax Protests <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_resistance> seem like a good template for a #defundBillionaires protest? The penalties for failing to pay taxes (witholding) in advance and even for paying levied taxes on time have been fairly anemic (though not vacant). Is it gutsier to risk being levied interest and fines on un(der)paid taxes, or standing up to a jacked and militarized law enforcement action in the street? Which maybe makes the biggest difference? Maybe both.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_resistance https://nwtrcc.org/2025/02/25/upcoming-war-tax-resistance-events/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Freedom_Day "shaking his tiny fist in all directions at once" - Steve
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