• ReHomed@lemmy.cafe
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    8 hours ago

    Every second a billionaire isn’t compost being mixed into concrete is a billionaire dragging down civilized society into a boiling shit pit

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    A billionaire is a mentally broken hoarder. They don’t collect every newspaper and urine sample but something more dangerous. They collect resources, more than any person could use without disgusting amounts of waste. Those collections come at the detriment to all human existence and should be viewed as a mental disease. We need to bring back sanitariums to hold these broken and diseased people so that they cannot continue to harm society.

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    Everything that has happened since Occupy Wall Street is a reaction to the fact that we were this close to eating them.

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      Sadly, I seem to remember Occupy being pretty ineffective. Did I miss something?

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        It was very ineffective, but i also believe this was partly because this was where they (the government and the rich) perfected efforts to undermine protests.

        Specifically targeting anyone that even appears to be emerging as a leader, infiltrating movements in order to sow chaos by conflicting goals and messaging, heavily leaning on the media, false flag elements, etc.

        Not that these tactics were new, but I don’t know if we’ll ever have another MLK. They’ll never allow anyone to become that kind of leader again.

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    But we didn’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly. We just talked about it. Some of us.

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      How 'bout ya talk a little less than, pal? Everyone wins that way, wouldn’t ya say. Don’t want aanyone to get hurt unneccessarily

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    Absolutely correct except they’ll do that regardless of whether anyone is threatening to tax them. That just makes them move faster

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    their rules don’t stop coming

    Fed to the rules and I hit the ground runnin’

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    Corrupt billionaires lobbying isn’t the problem, it’s the bootlickers defending them. A person is only as powerful as the number of his/her supporter.

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      Definitely both. Every “temporarily embarassed millionaire” needs to meet the guillotine almost as badly as every billionaire.

      At the end of the day, they’re still heartless pieces of shit that would gleefully get one over on their neighbor if it meant more personal wealth and power for them.

  • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Meanwhile over half of my $4k bonus for the year disappeared to taxes. Was hoping to use that to cover moving expenses next month, but I guess I’ll scratch the rest out from some other non-available source of money.