Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

Educator, CPA, old-school Christian, pragmatic anarchist, hobby gardener, cloud- and star-watcher, sarcasm aficionado. Texas Joined September 2024

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

6 minutes ago

@ZackPolanski @gabriel_zucman This is a great reminder that socialists are largely motivated not by a concern for the poor, but a hatred of the wealthy.

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@RationalBlonde @David_J_Bier How do you have a free market while forcefully preventing the entry and exit of people who buy and sell things? They're not the same thing in the strictest sense of that phrase, but the absolute version of the one requires the other.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

12 hours ago

@TCentrist39096 @RockChartrand "extraction of wealth" "institutionalized greed" "infinite extraction of wealth for the wealthy" "class bias" "runaway inequality" These are not phrases used by economically literate people. They're platitudes for authoritarian propaganda aimed at economic illiterates.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

12 hours ago

@TCentrist39096 @RockChartrand You "addressed" it with some vague name-dropping and an opinion piece by a "political scientist/political economist" who makes a bunch of assertions that he apparently expects the reader to simply accept - which may be reasonable for his target audience, but that's all.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

13 hours ago

@TCentrist39096 @RockChartrand Ah, the classic "I don't NEED to address the point, because someone on the internet agrees with the position I've been trained to declare The Truth, and that PROVES I'm/we're right" approach. Bonus points for injecting "oligarchy" where it doesn't belong.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

13 hours ago

@jeffersonation1 It's a bizarre race to watch. No matter who wins, it will almost certainly be for the wrong reasons. Our political system is a dumpster fire.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

14 hours ago

@Tiffthegood @RBPundit Lame engagement bait is lame.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

15 hours ago

@badmitton777 @LPTexas Nope, it just reinforces the already strong impression that you're unable or unwilling to seriously discuss the actual issue and rely on loaded and inaccurate comparisons.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

16 hours ago

@CNBC Of course they're not paying based on their wealth. Nobody does. The INCOME tax is a tax on INCOME, Fauxcahontas.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

17 hours ago

@badmitton777 @LPTexas Another one who doesn't know what "socialist" means, so they just use it as a generic insult.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

18 hours ago

@MoinsQue @ChrisVanHollen Maybe read and comprehend the decision yourself instead of relying on engagement farmers, clickbait "news," and professional liars to tell you what it says.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

18 hours ago

@ChrisVanHollen "Any decision that goes against what I want, or what gives my party an advantage, is CORRUPT because I say so!!!" This is why we can't have nice things, America.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

18 hours ago

@LeslieProll Sotomayor dissent is 💩. "It doesn't matter what the facts are, this WAS motivated by racism because I SAY SO!!!!"

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

18 hours ago

@SenatorWarnock You're a racist POS trying to convince everyone that following the law is REAL racism.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

18 hours ago

@Anarcoarmadillo @LPNational You even earn extra Pathetic Points for calling yourself an ancap while slobbering the state's boots.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

18 hours ago

@Anarcoarmadillo @LPNational Because you're a xenophobic moron who convinces himself that immigrants MUST be "a bunch of degenerates who don't believe in liberty." You're absolutely pathetic, and a waste of my time. Bye.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

18 hours ago

@Lthierry_______ @Bornakang Lame ragebait is lame.

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

18 hours ago

@ElectionCenter_ Here, you earned it: yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

18 hours ago

@ReverendWarnock You must face the reality that when the law doesn't align with your simplistic racist thinking, that doesn't mean that people who follow the law instead of your simplistic racist thinking are "partisan hacks and ideological extremists."

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Jon Stokes @JDStokes79

18 hours ago

@questionableway Cutting it would mean it doesn't crater as fast. I know that for economic illiterates it's fun to imagine that the Wise and Benevolent State can just keep giving away more and more money, but in reality there are consequences.