Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yanno... Common Leftoid pink haired potbelly vampire goblin tactic.

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yanno... Common Leftoid pink haired potbelly vampire goblin tactic.

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Don't be coy. That's what the ladies with blue checkmarks on Twitter are known as. And the "educate yourself" tactic is what they're known for. You know this.

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SECOND: ]Other rich people's tax returns are published, revealing that they paid $billions

SIGNY: Really? Whose? Zuckerberg's? Gates'? Bezos'? Buffet's?
Name some.

SECOND: THE SECRET IRS FILES at ProPublica
Inside the Tax Records of the .001%
https://www.propublica.org/series/the-secret-irs-files

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Yanno, that's funny SECOND because YOUR LINK says otherwise, right below the title

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ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

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and it contiunes

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In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal income taxes.

Michael Bloomberg managed to do the same in recent years. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn did it twice. George Soros paid no federal income tax three years in a row.

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I didn't go any further intoyour post, bc if you lied in your first post and doubled down in your second post, why should I bother reading more?

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Anger From Ukraine's Backers After Damning Amnesty Report Spotlights 'Human Shields'
Friday, Aug 05, 2022 - 02:45 AM

Amnesty International has in a surprise shift placed its human rights scrutiny on Ukraine in a fresh report released Thursday. It immediately sparked a firestorm of criticism as both Western pundits and Kiev officials themselves blasted the findings as "unfair".

The Amnesty report said investigators had "found evidence of Ukrainian forces launching strikes from within populated residential areas, as well as basing themselves in civilian buildings in 19 towns and villages" in three war-torn regions of the country from April through July.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/anger-ukraines-backers-after-da
mning-amnesty-report-spotlights-human-shields

The original report can be found here

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Ukraine: military endangering civilians by locating forces in residential areas - new research

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https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ukraine-military-endangering
-civilians-locating-forces-residential-areas-new

I'm sure that CAPON and SECOND and THUGR will "forget" in two hours that this was ever an issue.

But what this portends is that the deep state (which Amnesty is linked to) is in theprocess of scraping off Ukraine. You will probably see the CIA and/or WH start to criticize Ukraine's/Zelenskiy's military strategy (even tho micromanaged by USA and UK neocons) and expose Ukrainian corruption.

Bc now that thing are going badly (for them) in Ukraine, they want to turn the spotlight to China. This, too, was predicted. Altho our happy-camper trio has "forgotten" that, too.

Pretty soon you'll be mouth-breathing RUSSIARUSSIA! in a vacuum, bc even our deep state nd "international partners" will be backing away from this clusterfuck.

All the rah-rah-ism in the world can't make up for lack of contingeny planning. It never occurred to our tank-brained neocons that their schemes might not work. And Taiwan is just another seat-of-the-pants effort. I wonder how THAT will turn out.




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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

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SECOND: ]Other rich people's tax returns are published, revealing that they paid $billions

SIGNY: Really? Whose? Zuckerberg's? Gates'? Bezos'? Buffet's?
Name some.

SECOND: THE SECRET IRS FILES at ProPublica
Inside the Tax Records of the .001%
https://www.propublica.org/series/the-secret-irs-files

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Yanno, that's funny SECOND because YOUR LINK says otherwise, right below the title

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ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

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and it contiunes

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In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal income taxes.

Michael Bloomberg managed to do the same in recent years. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn did it twice. George Soros paid no federal income tax three years in a row.

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The deal is that Trump paid over two decades a total of only a few thousand dollars. In two recent years (2016, 2017) he only paid $750, but his entire tax returns for two decades are mysterious, only the total he paid in a few recent years. Bezos had low to no tax years, too, but he has paid $billions, and his entire tax returns, not just one number in one year, were available to ProPublic, while Trump, over the same years paid only $thousands and his tax forms remain invisible. Putin has the same setup as Trump, which is nice if you are a multi-billionaire paying only what an ordinary person would pay.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

I didn't go any further intoyour post, bc if you lied in your first post and doubled down in your second post, why should I bother reading more?

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Now I finally understand what is going on with you, Signym. I read an article on taxes and, because I'm an engineer, I understand it the way an accountant or engineer understands it. Signym reads it and obviously misreads the article in a way that makes Trump look good. You do exactly the same with Russia, not reading or misreading simple and straight forward stories in way that makes Russia look good. Then you accuse the journalists of lying. I bet not knowing doesn't work as well as you think it does, Signym. But you will never know the difference, will you? You are Invincible! (As are many Russians about Ukraine.)

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Nobody cares.

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SECOND: Other rich people's tax returns are published, revealing that they paid $billions

SIGNY: Really? Whose? Zuckerberg's? Gates'? Bezos'? Buffet's?
Name some.

SECOND: THE SECRET IRS FILES at ProPublica
Inside the Tax Records of the .001%
https://www.propublica.org/series/the-secret-irs-files

SIGNY: Yanno, that's funny SECOND because YOUR LINK says otherwise, right below the title

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ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

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and it continues

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In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal income taxes.

Michael Bloomberg managed to do the same in recent years. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn did it twice. George Soros paid no federal income tax three years in a row.

SECOND: The deal is that Trump paid over two decades a total of only a few thousand dollars. In two recent years (2016, 2017) he only paid $750, but his entire tax returns for two decades are mysterious ...

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NOT TO THE IRS
Besides, if his tax returns for 20 years are "mysterious", how can you claim to know that he paid only "a few thousand"?
You CAN'T. Either you know, or you're just making shit up.

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... only the total he paid in a few recent years. Bezos had low to no tax years, too, but he has paid $billions

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The article does NOT say that, it just doesn't. What it says about Bezos specifically is

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Consider Bezos’ 2007, one of the years he paid zero in federal income taxes. Amazon’s stock more than doubled. Bezos’ fortune leapt $3.8 billion, according to Forbes, whose wealth estimates are widely cited. How did a person enjoying that sort of wealth explosion end up paying no income tax?

Total [not income, total] Taxes Paid:
$973M (0.98% of wealth)

In that year, Bezos, who filed his taxes jointly with his then-wife, MacKenzie Scott, reported a paltry (for him) $46 million in income, largely from interest and dividend payments on outside investments. He was able to offset every penny he earned with losses from side investments and various deductions, like interest expenses on debts and the vague catchall category of “other expenses.”

In 2011, a year in which his wealth held roughly steady at $18 billion, Bezos filed a tax return reporting he lost money — his income that year was more than offset by investment losses. What’s more, because, according to the tax law, he made so little, [u[]he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children.

His tax avoidance is even more striking if you examine 2006 to 2018, a period for which ProPublica has complete data. Bezos’ wealth increased by $127 billion, according to Forbes, but he reported a total of $6.5 billion in income. The $1.4 billion he paid in personal federal taxes is a massive number — yet it amounts to a 1.1% true tax rate on the rise in his fortune.

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So, in one year he paid a billion in total taxes, and in other years he paid nothing.

Consider Warren Buffet

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No one among the 25 wealthiest avoided as much tax as Buffett, the grandfatherly centibillionaire. That’s perhaps surprising, given his public stance as an advocate of higher taxes for the rich. According to Forbes, his riches rose $24.3 billion between 2014 and 2018. Over those years, the data shows, Buffett reported paying $23.7 million in taxes.
$23.7M (0.10% of wealth)

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Trump's wealth, by contrast, is small compared to the wealthiest of the wealthy: somewhere between 1/10 and 1/100 of these centibillionaires. Consequently, his tax liabilities would be less too.

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SECOND: while Trump, over the same years paid only $thousa

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Saturday, August 6, 2022 4:40 PM

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Yanno... Common Leftoid pink haired potbelly vampire goblin tactic.

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It's the booze G.

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