#inflated — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #inflated, aggregated by home.social.
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These days, it’s all too convenient—and seemingly simple—to label anyone with a differing opinion as a right-wing extremist, a fascist, or even a Nazi when that view doesn’t fit into one’s own worldview.
The overuse of these terms (right-wing extremist/fascist/Nazi) has led precisely to the social problems they were originally meant to warn against.
Anyone who labels every political opponent a Nazi devalues the term and thereby makes it harder to credibly identify genuine extremism.
People who are wrongly labeled in this way do not turn away, but often turn even more toward the camps they are supposedly representing.
If you cry wolf too often, no one will listen when the wolf actually comes. 🙄
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Amazon Busted for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-busted-for-widespread-price
#HackerNews #Amazon #Inflated #Prices #PriceGouging #Economy #NewsTech #ConsumerRights
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Amazon Busted for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-busted-for-widespread-price
#HackerNews #Amazon #Inflated #Prices #PriceGouging #Economy #NewsTech #ConsumerRights
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#Landlords Are Using #AI To Raise #Rents — and #Cities Are Starting To Push Back
Federal #prosecutors have accused software company #RealPage of enriching itself "at the expense of #renters who pay #inflated #prices"
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#Landlords Are Using #AI To Raise #Rents — and #Cities Are Starting To Push Back
Federal #prosecutors have accused software company #RealPage of enriching itself "at the expense of #renters who pay #inflated #prices"
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Trump reveals he made $300,000 selling Bibles and has big cryptocurrency stash
Financial disclosure shows presidential nominee owes $500m in #civil #penalties but sheds little light on #solvency
Donald Trump made hundred of thousands from his branded #Bible and millions from his #properties
– but also owes millions for #defamation and #fraud cases, according to his latest financial disclosures that shed little light on the perennial question of whether the Republican presidential nominee is, in fact, solvent.Voluminous disclosure documents to the US Office of Government Ethics to comply with election campaign laws show that,
in addition to Trump’s US real estate holdings,
he has global financial interests, including registered #trademarks in China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ukraine and Israel.He also owns millions in #cryptocurrency and has a six-figure investment in #gold #bars.
But the disclosures also hint at Trump’s substantial personal outgoings,
👉including more than $500m owed to both the writer E Jean Carroll and the New York attorney general -- resulting from civil judgments involving defamation and accounting fraud.👈Both judgments
– $83m to Carroll and
– $454m to New York state
– are subject to bonds while Trump appeals the decisions,
a process that could take years.Trump’s #MarALago home and private club in Florida, which formed part of a case against the Trump Organization involving #inflated asset #valuations,
produced about $57m in income from the club, down about $8m from a previous disclosure.The disclosures are not a profit-and-loss balance sheet
– they only give broad ranges of income and assets
– so alone they cannot determine whether Trump is in the red or the black.He has consistently resisted efforts to force the release of his tax returns,
although two years ago a Democrat-controlled Congress released six years of Trump’s tax returns,
dating to 2015, the year he announced his presidential bid. -
Trump reveals he made $300,000 selling Bibles and has big cryptocurrency stash
Financial disclosure shows presidential nominee owes $500m in #civil #penalties but sheds little light on #solvency
Donald Trump made hundred of thousands from his branded #Bible and millions from his #properties
– but also owes millions for #defamation and #fraud cases, according to his latest financial disclosures that shed little light on the perennial question of whether the Republican presidential nominee is, in fact, solvent.Voluminous disclosure documents to the US Office of Government Ethics to comply with election campaign laws show that,
in addition to Trump’s US real estate holdings,
he has global financial interests, including registered #trademarks in China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ukraine and Israel.He also owns millions in #cryptocurrency and has a six-figure investment in #gold #bars.
But the disclosures also hint at Trump’s substantial personal outgoings,
👉including more than $500m owed to both the writer E Jean Carroll and the New York attorney general -- resulting from civil judgments involving defamation and accounting fraud.👈Both judgments
– $83m to Carroll and
– $454m to New York state
– are subject to bonds while Trump appeals the decisions,
a process that could take years.Trump’s #MarALago home and private club in Florida, which formed part of a case against the Trump Organization involving #inflated asset #valuations,
produced about $57m in income from the club, down about $8m from a previous disclosure.The disclosures are not a profit-and-loss balance sheet
– they only give broad ranges of income and assets
– so alone they cannot determine whether Trump is in the red or the black.He has consistently resisted efforts to force the release of his tax returns,
although two years ago a Democrat-controlled Congress released six years of Trump’s tax returns,
dating to 2015, the year he announced his presidential bid.