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MalcSB

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PVA said:
The Philosopher said:
It’s a worldwide market right?

Do Google pay a fair amount of UK tax for their UK advertising operations? Is Ireland used as a tax haven?

Once you answer those two very simple questions you will be on the path to logical thinking.

Be better.
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This is for the politics thread rather than the Trump thread, but I think describing some homophobic, racist and misogynistic people as homophobic, racist and misogynistic is a little different to describing state prosecutors as scum for locking away a criminal.
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I think that the highly political nature of the American judicial system needs to be taken in to account when trying to elevate state prosecutors in to a protected species and being outraged on their behalf.
 
MalcSB

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SBT said:
The answers are ‘probably not’ and ‘yes’ respectively. Trump’s plan to address the latter is to cut corporate taxes in the United States accordingly, which would be a huge boon to Google.

Be best!
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Absolutely not and yes respectIvely. These tech based companies should be taxed on UK turnover. It would make what Labour aim to raise from non doms look like chicken feed.
 
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AOM said:
Interesting. Trump will probably give him a role in government the way it's going...
I've listened to a few podcasts about the Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht doesn't sound like someone Trump would really want released, but there have been a lot of campaigns to get his sentence reduced (as it was seen as overly harsh and mainly a message to others thinking of doing similar), so maybe he's trying to make an ally?
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Great book on it/Ulbricht

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shmmeee

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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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Captain Dart said:
The Yanks are crazy about the flag, I don't understand it either but it's a popular policy and a cheap way of getting likes without much in the way of consequences a political stunt really.
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How many do you think are aware that constitutionally the preferred method of disposing of an American flag is to burn it?
 
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Definitely not a fascist

Describing Gaza as a "demolition site", Trump said: "You're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing".
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Sky Blue Pete

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Can’t win again
If he continues saying how poisonous he is he is castigated for changing his words
If he stops he’s a hypocrite
I suppose the one rule here is don’t ever change your opinion to fit with what happens and how things change or do
 
shmmeee

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Sky Blue Pete said:
Can’t win again
If he continues saying how poisonous he is he is castigated for changing his words
If he stops he’s a hypocrite
I suppose the one rule here is don’t ever change your opinion to fit with what happens and how things change or do
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Or if you want to speak your mind don’t become Foreign Secretary
 
shmmeee

shmmeee

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Trump for all his faults isn’t particularly precious. His own VP has called him Hitler, as has half of his party.
 
shmmeee

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fernandopartridge

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shmmeee said:
Just reading up on this. There’s a strong suspicion that they’re just lying about their training costs. I would find it very very funny if the US announced $500bn “Stargate” project for training AI only to have China release a comparable method that does it for $6m though.
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Indeed

You can't underestimate market hubris mind
 
chiefdave

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Strikes me that even if Trump whats to do nonsensical things he needs to stop shooting from the hip and blasting out executive orders for immediate action and actually go through due process and have the implications of his actions checked in advance.

Read a couple of days ago that there's a barrage of state court cases mounting up where he has decided to randomly fire people. Now the government are offering all employees 8 months full pay and benefits to quit, guessing those two things could be linked. Not hard to envisage in the near future there needing to be a mass hiring program because everything is understaffed.

He's also managed to 'accidentally' remove health coverage for a huge number of Americans.Donald Trump appears to have accidentally turned off 85 million people's healthcare.

Donald Trump appears to have accidentally turned off 85 million people's healthcare.

When it was first announced, The White House said Trump's government spending freeze would not affect Medicaid - the programme that provides health insurance to adults and children with "limited income and resources".

When the Office of Budget Management was forced to send a second memo, clarifying the first one, it also said Medicaid wouldn't be affected.

Yet yesterday reports emerged that some of the state-by-state web portals where people manage their medicaid accounts - which are co-funded by the federal government and the states - were apparently unavailable.

And listing programmes that would not be included in the freeze, in a bid to "clarify" widespread confusion about the plan, new Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did not mention Medicaid.

Asked to clarify whether Medicaid was included, she said she didn't know and would have to get back to reporters.
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