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not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago

Real estate titan compares 'tax the rich' slogan to racial slurs

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Real estate titan compares 'tax the rich' slogan to racial slurs

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not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago
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    He might change his tune when he realizes the alternative is guillotines….

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe
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    He’s really not going to like “Eat The Rich.”

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    Billionaires aren’t scared enough.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe
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      Let’s change that.

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    I am up for a hate crime

  • therewolftherecastle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Would he prefer “burn out the rich”?

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    Fuck politico though, spokespeople for genocide.

  • discocactus@lemmy.world
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    Lmao

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    🍽️ motherfucker.

  • OppressedBread@lemmy.ml
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    “Come on guys, I know I’m wealth hoarding and I most probably didn’t take human morals into account when I acquired it, but I have feelings okay!”

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    How about, “murder that stale cracker?” Does that evoke sympathy in his tiny heart?

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  • Eh-I@lemmy.world
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    LOP

    lol

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    He really won’t like what people replace ‘tax’ with if they’re not allowed to say “tax the rich.”

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      Wealth inequality is killing quality if life. We would like to put that wealth to productive use through taxation and government investments, but setting it on fire (metaphorically) would still leave the average person better off.

      If we can’t tax it or destroy it, then people will be pushed further and further until they have nothing to lose, and after that, things will get ugly.

    • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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      “Ax the rich”.

      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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        and my ax (to kill rich people with)

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      Wrong. Tax is real threat for them, anything else – isn’t.

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        Luigi has entered the chat

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          You’re seriously using the exceptional, almost unique, case as an argument?

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            Brooother this guy is dense. We are proposing to kill/eat the rich in general. Thats obviously more of a threat than taxes.

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              I actually agree what I think he meant was that the rich would rather be killed than taxed. Maybe it was just phrased poorly

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                Yeah, killed just means they’re estate gets taxed during inheritance but by that point thay’re dead so it’s illogical to care. Much more realistic a narcissistic personality grasps for ways to avoid any unsavory changes in wealth status vs literally dying. They aren’t afraid of their life insurance policy activating, actually they might even look forward to it in a strange way.

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        Right up until the moment it is.

        Everything dies. We literally do not know how to stop this. We’re real good at helping it along though.

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        The uber rich didn’t build a bunch of bunkers to protect themselves from…taxes.

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        collectivization >.<

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    Roth on Tuesday stressed the significant contributions of the city’s wealthiest residents to its tax base and said these members of the so-called one-percent are “not enemies” and are “at the top of the great American economic pyramid for a reason.”

    There it is. The “we’re better than you and deserve more” conceit.

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      That reason: they are so pathologically greedy that they grubbed up way more money than anyone could need and more than anyone else around.

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        And that grubbing explicitly is stealing from the people who actually create the money, the workers.

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        If all it took to be rich was pathological greed, there would actually be even more billionaires.

        It’s pathological greed and generational wealth.

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          Don’t forget the theft. Workers create value that capitalists steal. Profit is stolen wages.

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      Interesting how they’re there for being stains on humanity, but they think they’re special.

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    I wonder how he feels about “eat the rich”.

    Fuck him.

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      Reading this as the Aerosmith song blasts bc my anarchist small child demanded to watch the music video before school right now!

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