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I think the secret to that thinking is that not all programs that make up the deficit are equal.

Yea I assumed small town or poor part of town was still a thing, but that’s not most of us here.

Activist shareholders are having a moment because big tech is running really inefficient due to some over hiring while pulling forward a ton of revenue and missing all their fin plans for FY23 and having to really throw cold water on FY24 ambitions for growth

But I agree with him too; not on everything, but it’s just so nice to have someone with a passionate take instead of just sad, pathetic politics energy like the last three people who replied.

So which is it? Are they paying little taxes or paying a lot because they can't hide? Are you one of those who probably wanted them to pay a lot of taxes in 2020 when they lost record billions of dollars too?

Y'all musta forgot about my man @bad_teammate. He has more passion and fire and give-a-crap in his pinky than 6.5 pages of "dead-eye horse" posters, as he said. I'm almost sorry I released him from his cage on y'all, but I'mma let him cook:

Fair = Subjective, emotional feelings word. I'm arguing that NOMINALLY, O&G is feeding Texas in 2022/2023 by not paying "little" in taxes

The Texas oil and natural gas industry paid $24.7 billion in state and local taxes and state royalties in Fiscal Year 2022, shattering the previous record of just more than $16 billion paid in 2019 by 54%. That $24.7 billion translates to roughly $67 million every day that funds the state’s public schools, universities, roads, first responders and other services. Permian Basin schools and counties benefited significantly from the revenues paid by the state’s oil and gas industry, with counties receiving $320.4 million in property taxes and school districts receiving $867.2 million. Reeves County led the state with $44.9 million, 58.4% of its tax base. Midland County was second with $31.9 million, 30.3% of its tax base. Midland Independent School District led the state with $113.3 million, 32.2% of its tax base, followed by Pecos-Barstow-Toyah with $108.8 million, 65.1% of its tax base. Grady ISD had the highest percentage of its tax base from oil and gas property taxes at 92.4%, receiving $36.7 million. Oil and natural gas production taxes exceeded $10 billion for the first time in Texas history, surging by $5.8 billion or 116% while royalties to state funds rose by $2.2 billion or 102%. In FY 2022, the oil and gas industry employed 443,000 Texans earning an average of $115,300 each. For every direct oil and gas job, another 2.2 indirect jobs are created per direct employee. In total, 1.4 million Texans’ jobs were ultimately derived from the state’s oil and gas industry.

I'm printing this post out and framing it and hanging it next to my multiple degrees so that when people join zoom calls with me they have to see how amazing I am, by way of you and this post. This is vintage, hot spitting "dylan dylan dylan" fire. I award 5 fire emoji's out of 5.

Because this poster ( @mdmost) originally posted the tweet (unironically, thinking it was in earnest) and is still defending it. It's just strange that Disney stan's will defend anything and never admit fault.

Do you and @bad_teammate remember when @Neonmoon said just a page back, and I'll quote and bold and underline for the extra lulz here: This is the response of someone who knows absolutely nothing about what they talk about, ever. Just so remarkably on brand.

I see, so you think Disney is the big winner for having to deal with the meddlesome moth now and to divert resources and attention to possibly (though still might be a net negative, depending on...courts?), maintaining a status quo which was a given a year ago, before Desantis started trouble because he got mad?

@mdmost are you seeing yourself in the bold? You seemed to have bought the schtick. I also ask because you didn't answer this:

It's interesting to hear people say "I don't go to AMC I only go to Alamo" as if there is a marked difference in the recent years. I don't think there are any big megaplex (AMC, Cinemark, etc.) that are still a Popcorn-and-Soda-and-Mike&Ike, take a cloth seat theatre left. Maybe in food deserts there are still theatres like that, but for the most part all these places have bars, have leather recliners with the elbow room and a good menu with interesting food selection and full service to your seat. These places have all taken the Alamo or SMG model and adopted it. Their high margin and profit margins are probably all food and booze and these days, I would guess. Gone are the Batmobile arcade and claw crane machines.

You are right and in a lot of ways it reminds me of, I'll draw the analogy, R going too hard on culture war stuff is like when Dems went too deep and far into identity politics as their main platform. Sticking with the domestic issues and economic issues and "kitchen table" issue versus getting sucked into issues most reasonable and sane people think is foolish (china balloons and gay comic books in schools and drag queens and george santos and more "but, Trump" talk 3 years later) is showing discipline and wisdom and political strength.

Agreed.

1000000% agree. https://www.zdnet.com/article/gen-z-embraces-dumb-flip-phones-a-smarter-life-hack-than-youd-think/

I mentioned this on the Seinfeld thread, but one thing that stuck out to me when I binged the 9 seasons was how often and common "going to the movies" was a social outing and event for single, middle-class New Yorkers on a friday or saturday night in the 90's. I'm not sure how accurate a representation of the 90's in Manhattan that was, but every time there were lines and full theatres. Growing up in suburb Texas I only sat in a full movie maybe once.

The rise of the collective consciousness has been the problem. We need to regain control of our individual consciousness.

Hell yea! More. MOAR I will donate to your patreon page or campaign for any office you run for.

Also, let the record reflect, my attempt to bait @bad_teammateback to the CR and politic threads was again a failure. I fear we've lost him for good.

Cross posted on another thread but what this tweet seems to bury or downplay, is that the "different board" is one made up entirely of appointments by Ronnie D. What type of people do you think those 5 board seats will be filled with? How is that a HUGE win (emphasis his)? Especially considering less than a year ago, Disney had all this plus 5 board members they got to choose.

I would wonder about Pete being more pro-business, given his background. Maybe he would be more conservative on trust-busting and appointments in DOJ with respect to M&A. Other than that, I don't know.

That is why I said he trolled them. Then- Florida voted to revoke special benefits that, since the 1960s, have given Disney the ability to essentially self-govern a vast area around its Disney World theme park and issue tax-free municipal bonds Now- Disney nears a compromise with Florida over its special tax zone. Under legislation proposed yesterday, Gov. Ron DeSantis would be able to appoint all five board members overseeing an arrangement that allows Disney World to tax itself to cover services like water, roads and firefighting. The confrontation arose over Florida’s so-called Don’t Say Gay bill. So Ron is going to appoint all the board members overseeing this-- do you think that is a win? What sort of people do you think he will be appointing? It's also interesting that when I went to twitter to find tweets like you posted about people celebrating this as a huge win, it's people decrying that Disney will now have fascists on this board and they should move out of Florida. Maybe our algorithms are different.