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Off Topic / Re: Trump has the rona
« on: October 06, 2020, 14:53 »



The fact is that the electoral college was designed to give conservatives a bigger voice than their actual numbers should give them, and that legacy continues today, with Republican losers becoming president anyway. All other offices use the popular vote...theres absolutely no reason for the presidential vote to be any different.
ah, your mistaken belief is that conservatives were the slave owners in the first place.

No, my correct knowledge that conservatives were slave owners. Before the 1960's conservatives were called Democrats, but the parties flipped, and today conservatives are called Republicans. They may have a different name, but they're the same set of people who declared war on their own country in order to keep slavery alive, who created the electoral college to count their slaves as 3/5 of a person when they voted so they'd have outsized power, and still try today to push everyone who isn't white and male aside. And that includes trying every trick in the book to keep black people from voting...the descendants of the very people they once counted as 3/5 of a person when they cast their votes.

The parties never flipped. That's the biggest myth perpetrated by the left because they're so ashamed of their history. The Democrats are the party of slavery, KKK and Jim Crow. All they did was change their strategy, but they still used the same tactics today. If you look at the values of the Republican party for the last 100 years, the values are still the same. Instead of keeping blacks on the plantation, Democrats just keep them on welfare and public assistance. Shifting from one from of control to another.

 ::)

Roll your eyes all you want, but history tells the truth. Of the 21 Democrats that voted against the Civil Rights act in 1964, only 1 of them switched parties and became a Republican. The other 20 Democrats that voted against the Civil Rights Act remained Democrats until their service came to and end.

The only thing that changed was the voting Demographics, which slowly shifted in the south to become more Republican. Republicans values has remained fairly consistent in the last century. It's still the party of individual liberties, free market capitalism, property rights, constitutionalism and racial integration...yes racial integration.

Republicans judge people by their values. Democrats judge people by their skin color, which is basically the definition of racism. Republicans welcomes people of all races as long as they have the same values. Democrats will call you a race traitor the moment they try to think differently.

Hilarious.

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Off Topic / Re: Trump has the rona
« on: October 06, 2020, 13:16 »



The fact is that the electoral college was designed to give conservatives a bigger voice than their actual numbers should give them, and that legacy continues today, with Republican losers becoming president anyway. All other offices use the popular vote...theres absolutely no reason for the presidential vote to be any different.
ah, your mistaken belief is that conservatives were the slave owners in the first place.

No, my correct knowledge that conservatives were slave owners. Before the 1960's conservatives were called Democrats, but the parties flipped, and today conservatives are called Republicans. They may have a different name, but they're the same set of people who declared war on their own country in order to keep slavery alive, who created the electoral college to count their slaves as 3/5 of a person when they voted so they'd have outsized power, and still try today to push everyone who isn't white and male aside. And that includes trying every trick in the book to keep black people from voting...the descendants of the very people they once counted as 3/5 of a person when they cast their votes.

The parties never flipped. That's the biggest myth perpetrated by the left because they're so ashamed of their history. The Democrats are the party of slavery, KKK and Jim Crow. All they did was change their strategy, but they still used the same tactics today. If you look at the values of the Republican party for the last 100 years, the values are still the same. Instead of keeping blacks on the plantation, Democrats just keep them on welfare and public assistance. Shifting from one from of control to another.

 ::)

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Off Topic / Re: The greatest woman ever Died today
« on: October 06, 2020, 09:29 »
....or maybe she was excited to be serving under the first black POTUS, when it seemed our country had finally stepped into the 21st century, and the world was optimistic about the direction the U.S. was heading, and we all looked forward to the first female POTUS, and she wanted to be on the court when that happened. It would have been an exciting time for women, with HRC in the white house and RBG on the supreme court.

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Off Topic / Re: Trump has the rona
« on: October 05, 2020, 13:53 »



The fact is that the electoral college was designed to give conservatives a bigger voice than their actual numbers should give them, and that legacy continues today, with Republican losers becoming president anyway. All other offices use the popular vote...theres absolutely no reason for the presidential vote to be any different.
ah, your mistaken belief is that conservatives were the slave owners in the first place.

No, my correct knowledge that conservatives were slave owners. Before the 1960's conservatives were called Democrats, but the parties flipped, and today conservatives are called Republicans. They may have a different name, but they're the same set of people who declared war on their own country in order to keep slavery alive, who created the electoral college to count their slaves as 3/5 of a person when they voted so they'd have outsized power, and still try today to push everyone who isn't white and male aside. And that includes trying every trick in the book to keep black people from voting...the descendants of the very people they once counted as 3/5 of a person when they cast their votes.

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Off Topic / Re: Trump has the rona
« on: October 05, 2020, 13:29 »
Yeah, you seem to have completely missed the point of my post! I'm not debating any of that, but back in the day the republicans were liberal and the democrats were conservative. Shelma got a bit confused and was trying to imply that liberals were the slave owners and conservatives were the ones fighting for abolition... when the truth is that the democrats were slave owners and the republicans were fighting for abolition. That would be splitting hairs if Republicans were still liberal and democrats were still conservative... but they're not. From around the 1930s to the 1960s there was near enough a complete role reversal.

But yeah, Republicans love to roll out that old argument every once in a while... as some kind of evidence that the republican party is fair, and just and wonderful. But it's not 1860 any more. Things have changed... considerably. The majority of modern-day Republicans would want nothing to do with the Republicans of the 1800s.

I didn't get confused. I called them conservatives and slave owners, which they were at the time, and said today Republican losers go to the White House, which is true, because today conservatives are called Republicans. We all know the Democratic and Republican parties flipped, and the slave-owning conservatives who were once called Democrats are now called Republicans.

At least we in the U.S. know that...someone who's from Australia is here trying to correct my knowledge of U.S. history and has watched a few right-leaning videos about the electoral college, so she "feels" she knows the electoral college better than Americans, and also feels the need to "correct" me with her sparse misunderstanding of it. That's what happens when you watch far right propaganda videos and don't understand another country's history.

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Off Topic / Re: Trump has the rona
« on: October 04, 2020, 20:35 »
The problem is not POTU. The American society placed him there, as president of the USA.

The electoral college placed him there. The people voted for Hillary Clinton.

Yes, but the voting system works for both candidates, both have to win in the same conditions.

In my country voting system is a s. too and so in every country I know.

Incorrect. The electoral college is unfairly tilted towards conservatives and was purposely designed that way.

i'm not american and I feel i understand the electoral college better than you do.

let me try this on you: how about we create a world government, and we have an Earth president.  great idea. ok, how shall we set it up? popular vote?  ......
can you perhaps see some flaws in that idea?  I'm sure you might be objecting to such a notion, and you clearly aren't conservative.

What you feel you understand and what you actually understand are two completely different things.

you are welcome to try to explain it... you haven't at all. i've watched plenty of videos on this subject, and i see the spin put on it too.   this system was created to avoid tyranny, and now you have NY and CA suggesting they should be the states to have all the power (via a popular vote). That's approaching a version of tyranny that the founding fathers didn't want to see.

The electoral college was formed because slave owners in the south wanted more power. The southern states had far fewer white male landowners than states in the north. So slave owner James Madison came up with the electoral college, which at the time counted each slave as 3/5 of a person. Of course, slaves couldnt vote...only white male landowners could. But they were added to their masters vote anyway, without their knowledge and against their will. The electoral college was all about slavery.

California wasnt part of the United States at the time, and wouldnt become a state for decades. So nobody was worried about New York and California having all the power. Today, California, Texas and Florida are the three most populous states...one blue, the other two red. And California didnt turn blue until the 1990s, almost 150 years after it became part of the United States. So please stop the nonsense about New York and California having all the power.

The fact is that the electoral college was designed to give conservatives a bigger voice than their actual numbers should give them, and that legacy continues today, with Republican losers becoming president anyway. All other offices use the popular vote...theres absolutely no reason for the presidential vote to be any different.

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Off Topic / Re: Trump has the rona
« on: October 04, 2020, 13:47 »
The problem is not POTU. The American society placed him there, as president of the USA.

The electoral college placed him there. The people voted for Hillary Clinton.

Yes, but the voting system works for both candidates, both have to win in the same conditions.

In my country voting system is a s. too and so in every country I know.

Incorrect. The electoral college is unfairly tilted towards conservatives and was purposely designed that way.

i'm not american and I feel i understand the electoral college better than you do.

let me try this on you: how about we create a world government, and we have an Earth president.  great idea. ok, how shall we set it up? popular vote?  ......
can you perhaps see some flaws in that idea?  I'm sure you might be objecting to such a notion, and you clearly aren't conservative.

What you feel you understand and what you actually understand are two completely different things.

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Off Topic / Re: Trump has the rona
« on: October 02, 2020, 16:34 »
Both candidates knew how the Electoral College works. The popular vote never mattered.

One candidate campaigned in the battleground states and the other was too busy mingling with celebrities. Blame the candidate who mingled with celebrities instead of the one doing actual campaigning.

Knowing the game is rigged doesnt make the game not rigged. The fact remains that the electoral college is unfair and was purposely designed to be unfair. To make one team always have to fight an uphill battle while the other continually coasts downhill is ridiculous. Why do the Republicans need an unfair advantage? I wonder.

Nothing is rigged. Hillary got over-confident and she paid the price for her arrogance. If she bothered to visit the battleground states instead of staging concerts with celebrities, she would have won. Her defeat falls squarely on her shoulders. The EC is just an excuse for her incompetence.

You see it as being unfair, but many people see fair and equal representation for the states. Federalism protects state sovereignty and the Electoral College is an extension of it. It protects the farmers and the interest of individual states instead of having a bunch of coasters living in bubbles determine the direction for the rest of the country.

The mental gymnastic conservatives go through to defend an inherently unfair system are entertaining, I guess.

This article came out 2 days before 2016 elections. The purpose was to make Trump look bad for not having much celebrity support. It basically details all the concerts and events Hillary had planned with celebrities. They mentioned how Trump was focused on the swing states while Hillary ignored it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/us/politics/campaign-trump-clinton.html

Hillary had the 2016 election in the bag. A series of campaign blunders cost her the election. If you want to blame anyone, blame the person who failed to connect with the people. Hillary played a game of chess and lost and then complained that it wasn't a game of checkers.

She got more votes than any white man in the history of presidential elections, 3 million more than the orange nutcase, 10 million more than Reagan, 18 million more than Nixon, almost 20 million more than her own husband did when he won, yet Trump sits in the white house. The electoral college cost her the election. The electoral college is the reason candidates have to pander to a teeny tiny slice of the electorate instead of the majority of us. The electoral college is why Dubya won despite Gore getting more votes. Hillary played a game of chess where the opposing side has two queens and she has none, but its her fault for not winning even when she wins. Again, your mental gymnastics are sort of entertaining, but the fact is that the electoral college is stacked unfairly in favor of conservatives, as it was designed to be. And that shows so clearly the morals of this countrys conservatives.

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Off Topic / Re: Trump has the rona
« on: October 02, 2020, 15:28 »
Both candidates knew how the Electoral College works. The popular vote never mattered.

One candidate campaigned in the battleground states and the other was too busy mingling with celebrities. Blame the candidate who mingled with celebrities instead of the one doing actual campaigning.

Knowing the game is rigged doesnt make the game not rigged. The fact remains that the electoral college is unfair and was purposely designed to be unfair. To make one team always have to fight an uphill battle while the other continually coasts downhill is ridiculous. Why do the Republicans need an unfair advantage? I wonder.

Nothing is rigged. Hillary got over-confident and she paid the price for her arrogance. If she bothered to visit the battleground states instead of staging concerts with celebrities, she would have won. Her defeat falls squarely on her shoulders. The EC is just an excuse for her incompetence.

You see it as being unfair, but many people see fair and equal representation for the states. Federalism protects state sovereignty and the Electoral College is an extension of it. It protects the farmers and the interest of individual states instead of having a bunch of coasters living in bubbles determine the direction for the rest of the country.

The mental gymnastics conservatives go through to defend an inherently unfair system are entertaining, I guess.

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Off Topic / Re: Trump has the rona
« on: October 02, 2020, 14:09 »
Both candidates knew how the Electoral College works. The popular vote never mattered.

One candidate campaigned in the battleground states and the other was too busy mingling with celebrities. Blame the candidate who mingled with celebrities instead of the one doing actual campaigning.

Knowing the game is rigged doesnt make the game not rigged. The fact remains that the electoral college is unfair and was purposely designed to be unfair. To make one team always have to fight an uphill battle while the other continually coasts downhill is ridiculous. Why do the Republicans need an unfair advantage? I wonder.

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Off Topic / Re: Trump has the rona
« on: October 02, 2020, 12:38 »
The problem is not POTU. The American society placed him there, as president of the USA.

The electoral college placed him there. The people voted for Hillary Clinton.

Yes, but the voting system works for both candidates, both have to win in the same conditions.

In my country voting system is a s. too and so in every country I know.

Incorrect. The electoral college is unfairly tilted towards conservatives and was purposely designed that way.

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Off Topic / Re: Trump has the rona
« on: October 02, 2020, 09:42 »
The problem is not POTU. The American society placed him there, as president of the USA.

The electoral college placed him there. The people voted for Hillary Clinton.

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Off Topic / Trump has the rona
« on: October 02, 2020, 05:48 »
Supposedly. I have so little trust in anything he says that Im not sure if its true or if its 1. A ploy to make him look invincible when he miraculously recovers just before the election 2. An excuse to hand the reins over to Pence, who pardons him for everything 3. A chance to secretly mass the troops, the Proud Boys, etc. to prepare for a takeover, or 4. His opportunity to escape to somewhere.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Moving to the U.S.; tax questions
« on: September 21, 2020, 12:24 »
typically royalties received from your work are reported as self-employment income

Yes, that's what I said.  Thanks.

No, you said they're reported as "regular" income. I consider "regular" income to be wages. When you use Turbotax it separates wages, reported on W-2, from royalties, reported on 1099. Wages and royalties (or self-employment income) are taxed differently.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Moving to the U.S.; tax questions
« on: September 21, 2020, 10:31 »
Microstock-based earnings will be reported as royalty income.

No they aren't.  They're reported as regular income.

You can find a tax table on the IRS site to give you a basic idea, or maybe even a calculator somewhere, to give you a general idea.  If I make $X, what is my tax rate?  That's disregarding costs and such, of course.

Just double-checked my Shutterstock 1099 from 2019, and my earnings are reported in box 2, "Royalties." I report my royalty income as royalties on my income tax returns. Because that's what they are.

"Although there is no blanket equation for royalty taxes, typically royalties received from your work are reported as self-employment income, and are taxed at a higher rate. You report these on Schedule C of IRS form 1040. If you earn more than $400 through self-employment, including royalties, you must report that income on your tax return."

https://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/personal-income-taxes/what-is-royalty-income-and-how-is-it-taxed.htm

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I'm not familiar with the company. How do you feel about companies taking this firm of a position in politics? Reading further into this shows it's not really about supporting Biden but removing Trump. Would you continue to support them if they firmly were against your preferred candidate? What if it was one of the top three micros wanting to get rid of Biden?

I have a feeling this will quickly go off the rails into hate but I wanted to see if we could have some debate on companies openly trying to influence elections. 

https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/04/introducing-photographersforbiden-a-new-project-by-feature-shoot/

Likewise, Scientific American has come out for Biden, which is really a position against Trump's anti-science stance.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/16/prestigious-us-science-journal-breaks-with-tradition-to-back-biden

Trump has an Anti-Science stance or the liberals are selling and telling us that he has an Anti-Science stance?  ??? Is Biden really suffering from dementia, or are the Republicans just promoting that myth?

Yeah who would have expected that academics who live in the mostly liberal hives of "we know better than everyone else" would support Biden? PBS that the taxpayers pay for, is far left. Talk about Anti-Science, because the shows have a political agenda that ignores anything that doesn't agree with them

Before anyone thinks I'm in favor of Trump, no way. The truth is, I don't like either of them, and we don't have a choice. Same as the last election, when I didn't like either of the candidates.

Here's the way it's looking right now. "This year, Trump will not be able to vilify Biden. The swing voters do not dislike Biden the way they still disliked Hillary Clinton. And, so, Trump is taking a different approach, casting doubt on Biden by focusing on questions of his mental acuity and verbal mistakes. And he will likely get far by alleging Biden's lifetime in politics has not having yielded a single, career-defining achievement." paraphrased and quoted from Rich Thau

Choices: angry, loudmouth (sometimes uninformed) tweeter or someone who has the force and personality of a brown paper bag. Biden is viewed by many as nothing but a mouthpiece for special interests and activist groups. Defunding the police? That will send voters to Trump. Rioters attacking Federal buildings and retail shops? That's going to get more people to vote for Trump. Kind of a backfire for the protesters, isn't it?

Here I am someone who hates the hate in politics and abhors the division that has taken place in the country. We used to fight together, to make the country better. Someone won, they were Our President. Now all I see is people split and fighting each other, mostly for their own gain and self interests. That's not united. Polarization is the worst enemy for our country the way I see things.

If nothing terrible alters the way things are going and mostly progressing towards November. The election will be very, very close. No one is leading or going to overwhelm the other. The side that gets out the vote will win, regardless of policy or promises. We are that equally divided.

What country have you been living in? When did we used to fight together to make the country better? Was it when Obama was POTUS and the right questioned where he was born and went nuts because he wore the same type of tan suit every other modern president had worn at some point? Was it when Reagan had the trickle down approach that led to the current tremendous gap between rich and poor? Was it when women (were the majority of people in the US) werent allowed to vote? Or when slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person so white slave owners in the south would have power beyond their true numbers, outsized power that still, today, puts Republicans in the White House even when they lose the popular vote? Was it when the founding fathers enslaved people? Was it when Europeans invaded, murdered most of the existing population and forced who was left to live on reservations, then broke every treaty made with them? This country has always been about a small group of white men grabbing power for themselves and trying their best to keep everyone else from getting their hands on it. And its always been everyone else fighting them for some small chance at some type of equality or fairness.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Moving to the U.S.; tax questions
« on: September 20, 2020, 19:42 »
I'll be moving to the U.S. soon (got a job there), and I have some rather simple questions in regards to taxation of microstock income. I will talk to a tax specialist there as well of course, but I thought to prepare as much as I can before I depart. So;

1. In which category does one report microstock-based earnings?
2. What's the rough tax rate? I know this might depends on the state (mine will be MD), so are there online calculators to give an estimate? If one earns $3000 per month, how much can he expect to keep after the IRS takes their part?
3. Is there anything particular I need to keep an eye out on when reporting income from microstock?

Microstock-based earnings will be reported as royalty income. You should probably find an accountant in the U.S. once you get here who can give you an idea of how much you should pay in estimated taxes each quarter. I have no idea how any of it works if you're a citizen of another country. I do remember a partner of mine having to pay taxes both here and in Switzerland, where she was from.

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Off Topic / Re: The greatest woman ever Died today
« on: September 20, 2020, 07:07 »
Trump said today that Ruth know how to disagree but not be disagreeable.

That's rich, coming from Trump.

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Off Topic / Re: The greatest woman ever Died today
« on: September 18, 2020, 19:53 »
Heartbreaking.  :'(

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I feel all slimy just reading the explanation of how the site came to be. Blech.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: sold 64 videos yesterday for 84 cents each
« on: September 15, 2020, 16:22 »
Negative comments because if everyone had sacrificed a few weeks of income SS would have been forced to roll back their draconian royalty cuts and we'd ALL be back to higher royalties.

but that was NEVER going to happen - boycotts never get that sort of cooperation and a boycott with a publicly stated end date tells the boycotted they can ride it out. In addition, the vast majority of contributors likely never even knew there was a boycott. 


that still doesnt excuse the negative comments and ad hominem attacks on those who think differently

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Instead, the vast majority stayed, accepting a big loss this year and an even bigger loss come January, rather than a temporary, much smaller loss for a few weeks in June. We own the content. The agencies are nothing without us. But whatevs.


and again, you're mis-stating the case by presenting it as either /or rather than a large loss for everyone AND a slightly larger loss for boycotters

Well, today's a sad day for me. I just read in the Stock Coalition Facebook group that your work is featured in the Coalition Collection on Pond5. You argue against boycotting and haven't had much nice to say about the Coalition, but you stepped right up to take advantage of the deal they got with Pond5.

So now someone who thinks boycotting Shutterstock is useless reaps the reward of the hard work done by others who sacrificed their income and worked their butts off to try to make a difference.

From now out I'm looking out for number one and nobody else. Because what's the point if my work benefits someone like you? I gave up thousands of dollars in income so YOUR work could be featured while you continue making money on Shutterstock? Ehf that.

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Newbie Discussion / Re: boycott shutterstock
« on: September 15, 2020, 14:23 »
It was in the works long before Pavlovsky became CEO, IMO. Getting rid of customer service for contributors, tons of rejections for established contributors, flooding the site with similars, allowing 50 identical keywords until we put up a big stink, smaller and smaller royalties and fewer and fewer big sales...that all started years ago.

Shutterstock was never about helping contributors make a living or being a viable business long term. Its only purpose was to make Oringer, the investors and a couple of chosen others rich.

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Newbie Discussion / Re: boycott shutterstock
« on: September 11, 2020, 19:45 »
Cranky, crotchety old crone here too.

Cathy, here's a thought:

Maybe we cranky and crochety old crones should start our own microstock sales site.

Just think of the fun promotions we could put out!

PS: Shelma probably isn't a cranky and crochety old crone just yet, but she might want to consider joining us, too. :D

Definitely cranky, crotchety, outright b*itchy and over 60. So I guess Im a nasty old hag.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Out of office (for a month)
« on: August 24, 2020, 13:04 »
Looks like you had an awesome time. Your wife did a great job modeling. :)

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Freepik got hacked
« on: August 23, 2020, 10:07 »
Awesome.

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