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lordjohnwhorfin said:

Unlike under the traitor’s administration, the DOJ does NOT report to Biden and does not do his bidding.
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because for the time being we’re still in a democracy. You better pray Biden gets reelected if you want that to continue.

lam92103 said:

With 70 Billion of profit per year, 30 Billion sounds quite low for 10 years 

I’m not a fan of Microsoft and I’m not defending them, but if it were that simple then we wouldn’t be reading an article about it. A company like Microsoft isn’t generally going to act like a crime family when it comes to taxes. They will use complex processes to try and minimize tax burden. Some of it may be unsightly, but it’s not like a citizen making $70 billion and paying 4% tax. Tax laws are complex and our current tax system needs that complexity to be fair.

Now I’d be quite happy to ditch the current tax system and use something like FairTax. But the government foams at the mouth for control and power and they’d currently never accept something like that. 

mknelson said:

jdgaz said:

Now I completely understand why England left the EU. 

The con by Nigel Farage and his buddies? In the UK today Brexit is widely considered to be a failure. Even Nigel has said that.

If Brexit is a failure it’s not because it is a failure, it would be because people who didn’t want it made it a failure. If the country had just embraced it and gone along with it, whether they wanted it or not, it would have been quite a success and the UK would be reaping the benefits already and the EU would be less powerful. But the stupid games of globalist politicians and their manipulation of the public has made it a lot worse.

Still workable though, but the public can’t keep rejecting it.

wonkothesane said:

Dear Thierry, can I have a BMW engine in my Mercedes, please? And I should be able to put any headlights in my car well well, thank you. And while you’re at it, I want to control my Bosch appliance with the Samsung app, buy competitors’ products in my supermarket of choice and run iOS on Android phones. No biggie for you, I suppose. Cheers. 

Perfect analogies. People have come to see phones as a service sort of like electricity. But their entitled attitudes blind them to the obvious that there are already competitors and choice, and insisting Apple or whoever open up their product is like telling Mercedes to do the work to develop a mechanism which allow customers to put a BMW engine in their car.

If someone wants to offer a payment service or easier app access, they should develop their own phones to do that. 

joogabah said:

No hypocrisy there at all.  America never bombs other countries or invades and topples other governments, even on false pretexts.  And America had nothing to do with Ukraine's 2014 coup either.  And it didn't state explicitly its plan to balkanize Russia as a prelude to war with China which it can't compete against.

Yes, long gone are the days when we could point the finger at other ‘evil’ countries as if the US and the West are much different. There was a time when the US was impressive, but we’re just standing on those past successes thinking we can redefine obvious truths and be successful when in reality we’re on a downward spiral. We need to fix ourselves before complaining about Russia.