Robert Smith
@sidhartha.bsky.social
🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 Progressive anti-neoliberalist, anti-imperialist. Dog lover. Nature hound. By day Swift & SwiftUI engineer/developer for my own product.
I loathe Farage, but please explain to me how what he did is tax evasion? It’s not. Also he’s no better off being paid through a company than directly as far as I can see. He instead has to pay corporation tax and then dividend tax to get the money out. Deliberately the same as paying income tax.
September 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I loathe Farage, but please explain to me how what he did is tax evasion? It’s not. Also he’s no better off being paid through a company than directly as far as I can see. He instead has to pay corporation tax and then dividend tax to get the money out. Deliberately the same as paying income tax.
See my reply to your other message. Trump is horrific in every way. But that doesn’t abdicate Biden from significant responsibility. The Dems knew who Netanyahu was for decades. And they have been enablers of the Israeli state we see right now despite everything they knew.
August 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
See my reply to your other message. Trump is horrific in every way. But that doesn’t abdicate Biden from significant responsibility. The Dems knew who Netanyahu was for decades. And they have been enablers of the Israeli state we see right now despite everything they knew.
No red lines Biden said for Israel. Enough said. He enabled what we’re seeing.
August 31, 2025 at 8:21 AM
No red lines Biden said for Israel. Enough said. He enabled what we’re seeing.
You know real kings don’t have any power right? What you have in the USA is much much worse than having a king.
May 6, 2025 at 6:49 AM
You know real kings don’t have any power right? What you have in the USA is much much worse than having a king.
From where I’m sitting the media has way too much respect for the office. They’re overly deferential. The office has to earn respect day in day out like the rest of us.
May 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
From where I’m sitting the media has way too much respect for the office. They’re overly deferential. The office has to earn respect day in day out like the rest of us.
Public abundance is a well funded and functioning public transit service. These people don’t want public abundance. They want private abundance for a very few and public scarcity for everyone else.
April 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Public abundance is a well funded and functioning public transit service. These people don’t want public abundance. They want private abundance for a very few and public scarcity for everyone else.
Trump’s so obsessed with getting a ‘deal’. Any deal. It doesn’t matter if it’s a good one or not. Which makes him dreadful negotiator. Arse of the deal.
April 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Trump’s so obsessed with getting a ‘deal’. Any deal. It doesn’t matter if it’s a good one or not. Which makes him dreadful negotiator. Arse of the deal.
These ‘deals’ will be nothing burgers at best. This is all smoke and mirrors. Hence you don’t need real trade negotiators.
April 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
These ‘deals’ will be nothing burgers at best. This is all smoke and mirrors. Hence you don’t need real trade negotiators.
It’s always the ones you most suspect…
April 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It’s always the ones you most suspect…
Also his brand is wrecked forever. And he’s attached his personal brand so closely to Tesla. Quite how him coming back as full time engaged Tesla ceo merits a 10% stock pop I don’t know (from down 5% to up 5%). Tesla continues to be Elon’s meme stock.
April 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Also his brand is wrecked forever. And he’s attached his personal brand so closely to Tesla. Quite how him coming back as full time engaged Tesla ceo merits a 10% stock pop I don’t know (from down 5% to up 5%). Tesla continues to be Elon’s meme stock.
Regardless, X being unable to pay its loans and filing for bankruptcy protection would likely lead to a significant sell off of Elon associated assets. Wrapping a loss making company and its loans into another loss making company riding the AI froth offers some protection to his TSLA stake.
March 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Regardless, X being unable to pay its loans and filing for bankruptcy protection would likely lead to a significant sell off of Elon associated assets. Wrapping a loss making company and its loans into another loss making company riding the AI froth offers some protection to his TSLA stake.
Musk wraps his X debt which could easily lead to a TSLA margin call, into xAI. So he passes the debt from a shitty company to one with AI froth and he hopes staves off being a forced seller of TSLA stock which is his only liquid asset.
March 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Musk wraps his X debt which could easily lead to a TSLA margin call, into xAI. So he passes the debt from a shitty company to one with AI froth and he hopes staves off being a forced seller of TSLA stock which is his only liquid asset.
US needs a general strike
March 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
US needs a general strike
I don’t think Europe has accepted or even understood yet that the road ahead leads to Europes direct involvement in the conflict. Either in Ukraine or on their own borders. There is still a lot of wishful thinking going in Europe. We’ve seen enough of that over the past decade.
March 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I don’t think Europe has accepted or even understood yet that the road ahead leads to Europes direct involvement in the conflict. Either in Ukraine or on their own borders. There is still a lot of wishful thinking going in Europe. We’ve seen enough of that over the past decade.
He is right. And Europe still hasn’t really understood or accepted what that means. If the US bails, it means, I believe, Europe’s direct involvement in the conflict. I see no other viable option. Otherwise Europe cedes Ukraine and who’s next on the menu.
March 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
He is right. And Europe still hasn’t really understood or accepted what that means. If the US bails, it means, I believe, Europe’s direct involvement in the conflict. I see no other viable option. Otherwise Europe cedes Ukraine and who’s next on the menu.
Democrats need to be hammering on about inequality. The fact they weren’t and defended the status quo is what cost them the election.
March 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Democrats need to be hammering on about inequality. The fact they weren’t and defended the status quo is what cost them the election.
Trump a moron. Putin and Xi can read him like a child’s book. They’re about 8 moves ahead of him.
March 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Trump a moron. Putin and Xi can read him like a child’s book. They’re about 8 moves ahead of him.
And Boeing. So probably unsafe.
March 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
And Boeing. So probably unsafe.
Trump has no values. None. He just wants a ‘deal’. Any deal. To make him look big. Doesn’t matter if it’s an awful deal.
March 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Trump has no values. None. He just wants a ‘deal’. Any deal. To make him look big. Doesn’t matter if it’s an awful deal.
Boeing. So probably unsafe. And will get zero foreign sales after Trump has torched 80 years of relationship building with allies.
March 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Boeing. So probably unsafe. And will get zero foreign sales after Trump has torched 80 years of relationship building with allies.
All these guys like Witkoff & Trump have no idea what values actually are. They don’t have any. All they want is a ‘deal’. Any ‘deal’. Doesn’t matter if it’s a good one or bad one. Just give us a deal. Literally like market trader mentality.
March 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
All these guys like Witkoff & Trump have no idea what values actually are. They don’t have any. All they want is a ‘deal’. Any ‘deal’. Doesn’t matter if it’s a good one or bad one. Just give us a deal. Literally like market trader mentality.
And a kill switch just in case any US ally that bought them does something the administration doesn’t like. No thanks. Also, Boeing. So probably unsafe.
March 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
And a kill switch just in case any US ally that bought them does something the administration doesn’t like. No thanks. Also, Boeing. So probably unsafe.
No former allies will touch it with a barge pole.
March 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
No former allies will touch it with a barge pole.