Sign in

Dubbs

@somecallmedubbs.bsky.social
60 followers 160 following 143 posts

Wacktose Intolerant

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Dubbs
James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 12h
This bad boy can fit so many nationalized space companies inside it you wouldn’t believe it
463885634
Reposted by Dubbs
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
151150866497
Reposted by Dubbs
Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
10:53 PM • 10/4/26 • 1.3M Views
574216154215
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Most people come to their true beliefs because they are persuaded into them, and there's a multi-billion dollar industry set up to persuade politicians.
000
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Agreed, but part of this is that lobbyists are really good at their jobs. I don't think the median GOP Congressman had a take on data centers before last year, but they were certainly willing to adopt the position of capital as gospel.
101
Reposted by Dubbs
dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the received wisdom of the dnc superfan is not nearly as unshakeable as they would have you believe. as a rule most don't believe in anything other than mirroring the establishment. move the establishment and they will play ball immediately
1043039
Reposted by Dubbs
maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
7164881221
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Black Flag, a man of taste and distinction.
010
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anyway: (1) You can't appease facists. (2) The majority of independents consistently vote for one party and also can't be won. (3) True swing voters are insane and impossible to predict. (4) You should focus on exciting your base and driving turnout. (5) Above all, fucking protect trans kids.
021
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Talarico should stake out a strongly pro-trans position because it is the morally right thing to do, but even from a cynical, strategic standpoint, what's the point of trying to "moderate" on the issue when Musk et al. are going to spend $100m claiming you're strongly pro-trans anyway?
131
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I know there are no laws anymore (to the extent that the laws ever applied to the elite), but how is this not a bribe?
000
Reposted by Dubbs
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fraud is so awesome in this country I can understand why everyone does it. You can make a billion dollars doing fraud and then a court will be like "Hang on there pal...pay a $100M fine but DON'T do it again"
393244383
Reposted by Dubbs
ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The one trait consistent to EVERYONE on the right is an inability to understand anything until they experience it personally
713111507
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What's the neat label for me, a guy who will knock doors for Dems until my hand falls off who also believes that we won't fix *all this* until a Great-Depression-level disaster hurts enough people for us to usher in another FDR and 60 years of Democratic Congressional majority?
1101
Reposted by Dubbs
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
For Musk, "government fraud and waste" is a single mom on food stamps who misses a box on a 600-page form because she's exhausted from working three jobs to make rent - not a no-bid contractor trousering billions in public funds for projects that overcharge and underdeliver. 41/
229171
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Some people who are ostensibly Democrats really just want to go back to the status quo without the fascism, as if the previous status quo wasn't the immediate precursor to the fascism.
000
Reposted by Dubbs
Micah @rincewind.run · 28/07/2026
the corruption number here makes me want to turn into the joker and then, as the joker, turn into a significantly more unhinged joker
1004020563
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Even this, ultimately, was a grift. Is there anyone on the right who holds any principals more dear than "I should be rich"?
000
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
These are rookie numbers, we need to pump these numbers way up.
000
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Perhaps the best thread I've ever seen.
0279
Reposted by Dubbs
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026
Anyone who believes in markets must also tacitly believe that successful market participants *don't* believe in markets. They should understand that capitalists hate capitalism, that every pirate yearns to be an admiral. 17/
29730
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
You had to figure these goons would come for libraries eventually. I'm trying to figure out what the most unassailable public good is that they'll inevitably come for. It wasn't schools. It's probably trash pick up. Laying down a marker here that they'll come for trash pickup.
000
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It's important to point out that leftists didn't pick Platner, the voters of Maine did.
160
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Isn't this every conservative? Willing to accept death tolls in the abstract but just as moved as the rest of us when confronted with images of dead kids? Isn't it a defining cleavage between being on right or on the left whether or not you're able to connect the two?
011
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Michael Jordan of being completely unrelatable.
040
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Much as I loathe him, if it actually releases at 6%, I'd be obligated to get it... which means there's absolutely no chance that it does, right?
330
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I think he does it in knowing that media and public scrutiny are way more intense for non-white politicians. If he or Obama dressed like Fetterman, they never would have made it out of (or perhaps into) local politics.
070
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Putting aside "the idea of rank corruption taking down a presidency is crazy," it's very funny watching this realization dawn on this moron years after the rest of us.
000
Reposted by Dubbs
Senadora Julie Gonzales @senadorajulie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Every 80 minutes, someone is sexually assaulted while getting a ride from a company like Uber. Speaker Mike Johnson is adding an amendment to HR 8870 to shield these corporations from liability. I'm proud to stand with 284 other women state legislators to demand safety for passengers and drivers.
Graphic of person getting in car with text that says "No Free Rides for Accountability. Tell Congress: No Liability Shield for Uber & Lyft"
112630
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We've known for the longer than this woman has been alive that saturated fats and sugar should probably be consumed sparingly, but only now are these idiots balking because of dye or whatever.
000
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I know we're all pushing back on this because it's dangerous MAHA pipeline nonsense, but I'd look to push back on it because you're a moron if you didn't know two decades ago that Cheetos are not especially great for you.
120
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This is why I've always found being a "moderate" to be profoundly embarassing - the center isn't real. It's a transient thing defined entirely by the people who *aren't* in it.
010
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Twofold for me: this, and knowing that my parents were able to get the house and the vacations years before I was despite being fiscally illiterate and no more "successful" than me.
041
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Anecdotally, this fits the theory of elections that it is less effective to try to convince members of the other party to vote for you than it is to convince them to stay home (while exciting members of your own party to come out).
002
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Bars.
000
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
These dudes do a Watergate every six days, I think we have to revise our expectations.
010
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A critical mass of Americans believe that the middle must be the wisest position by nature of the fact that it is the middle and it's killing us. It rewards moving the Overton window, which Republicans have been excellent at.
021
Reposted by Dubbs
Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Now that we've been through this whole process basically twice, I think it's fair to say that there is no policy too forceful, draconian, or oppressive to end southern racism.
110612
Reposted by Dubbs
Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The other thing I didn't mention, which is the Republicans' biggest asset: if they take control of the government & fail, they've still succeeded at making the government fail.
213113
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It's Mr. Brightside by several orders of magnitude. If you are out and about enough, it is patently obvious. It is played everywhere, in every situation, to a thundering and emotional response. We are so obsessed with it that the younger generations have been made painfully aware.
000
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The GOP party in my county is allowed to, and does, endorse quack Moms for Liberty candidates for the school board. It also prints blue ballots with those endorsements for obviously underhanded reasons. The Dem party does not allow itself to endorse and has no plan to counter.
000
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
They don't play fair, and neither should we.
000
Reposted by Dubbs
Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Virginia's public referendum blocked by a court ruling on the timing of legislature votes but Florida can redistrict on a whim without even *trying* to amend their constitution i don't know what you're supposed to do in a country where one party just sometimes isn't bound by the law
64865214
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The most effective political strategy of the last 50 years has been Republicans intentionally destroying the function and efficacy of the federal government, then turning around and saying "look how bad the government is" to their voters.
3245
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It becomes increasingly clear that the scheming viziers cooked up the ballroom thing as a make-work program for the big guy. The keys they jingle in front of him.
000
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The "Democrats are the opposing coach in Air Bud" theory lives on.
050
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Well, Thomas would because he's paid to, Alito might have stage 4 brain worms. I still think this makes Thomas more likely to oppose birthright, which runs counter to the wisdom I've seen so far.
000
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
At this point, Thomas and Alito have to know the other seven votes are going in favor of birthright. By all rights, this probably gives them a pass to do the same, and it would be the politically smart play. The only reason I can think for them to still vote against is corruption.
100