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Pst. Hey kid wanna try some Linux distros!?
I’ve got some real nice Gentoo. You’ll be compiling for days.
Jeez, you can’t just go straight for the hard stuff like that! You gotta ease into it with some Bazzite or somethin’ first.
Arch or nothing.
The wealth tax typically proposed by these campaigns (like 2 or 3%) would raise money but it would not stop billionaires from getting richer. (That’s why even billionaires advocate for it.)
The finish line should not be “raise money to fund public programs.”
The finish line should be “billionaires don’t exist.”
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good, don’t let good be the enemy of okay, and don’t let okay be the enemy of “not as bad as it could be”
Because it’s starting to get as bad as it can be.
Agreed.
Pass what you can pass.
But don’t let that be the finish line.
Support everything that is an improvement.
There literally should just be a cap. Make it something ridiculous like “billionaires are not allowed to exist, so everything you earn past $999,999,999.99 is public property” and I don’t see any way how someone could disagree with this other than wanting to be a malicious parasite. That is more than enough money to buy a yacht for your yacht and is also an amount of money that cannot be legitimately obtained.
I’ve always liked the idea of the cap being an immediate loss of any legal property protection.
This would not be through any process, they simply instantly legally cease to have any property rights anytime they cannot prove their net worth is below the limit.
Any member of the public can reclaim any piexe of their ex-property, until the not-quite-billiomaire gets a court ruling confirming their not-a-billionaire status.
Then the not-yet-billionaires can figure out how to constantly stay comfortably below the limit.
Or…they can file an updated wealth disclosure every time they attempt to keep anyone from walking away with any piece of their former property.
If they want to avoid the inconvenience of their yachts, cars, pets, plants, fences, lamps, and television sets being repossessed, they can negotiate with their employees unions for collective ownership in good faith, instead.
It’ll be fun to see how many of them are too stupid to take a good deal, and lose their stupid toys.
Oh, so we put the bar at proving a negative? Easy peasy.
Just reinstate 1950s top marginal rates. Then have a drink after a job well done.
How about putting a cap onto inheritance?
Where’s the beans?
is that kid even wearing any beans?
it’s like the artist wasn’t even trying to capture our essence.
I also don’t see Taylor Swift’s jet… wearing jeans.
Oh, nvm.
As someone that won’t drive a car and will not encourage big oil or big car, I’m also delightfully surprised by the somewhat strong presence of “fuck cars” communities on the fediverse, and I can only approve.
the fediverse’s stance is “fuck everything about this”
Fuck consumerism.
funny what happens when you have a system without profit motive so people mostly just talk to other people
It does probably help that the general spread includes people who like cars but absolutely hate modern cars and the near ubiquity of them. What I wouldn’t do to fire but a single Davey Crockett payload directly at GMs HQ.
My cousin smoked a Fedi once and now he’s an addict. One time he even sold his clothes for a hit of beans
Half of these don’t apply to me. I’m not necessarily anti AI, pro Palestine, or a leftist. While the fediverse is ultimately dominated by specific groups, it’s still more diverse than we give it credit for.
And the constant politics is exhausting and difficult to squelch.
That’s just called living in the world
No, it’s really not. It’s actually inappropriate in polite society to talk about politics outside of certain contexts. Here on lemmy, folks will use every excuse to shoehorn US politics into every thread and every post. It sucks, it’s like there’s nowhere to go anymore online without politics folks throwing in their two cents. I spend more time doing irl activities just to get away from it which is a shame because I grew up on BBSs and the internet and I really like communicating with people this way. Just not about that.
Everything is politics. The decision to not talk about politics is also politics
Everything is politics
Blocked.
This too is politics
We aren’t all Americans though.
I didn’t say everything is American politics, although a lot is
Careful now, my friend. These terminally online crazies are so thoroughly in the pit that they no longer realize that there is more in the world than politics. It’s like talking to crazy religious people who will argue about how God is everywhere and in everything every chance they get. There’s no point bringing normal reasonable perspectives into a discussion like this. XD if you don’t have the same opinion as them you are a fascist or some shit xD the diversity of thought on Lemmy is as plentiful and fertile as the surface of the moon.
You’re not necessarily pro-Palestine? So you’re not necessarily anti-Genocide?
These aren’t the same thing…
Explain how “I’m not in favour of the people suffering genocide” is not the same as “I’m against genocide”.
You can be against what Israel is doing without specifically being in support of Palestine. But it’s harder to explain with a short pro/anti type label.
Palestine is a country and its possible to have a very different feeling to a government and the people.
So the ongoing genocide and the 50 year long siege that Palestinians have been subjected to has no effect on their government or their people? I’d love to see what ideals and morals you support when you spend 50 years under siege.
You clearly don’t care to even try and understand, so I am not going to bother anymore.
No, I don’t care to understand genocide bothsiders
I don’t agree with you, but glad your here regardless friend
Aww, they’re all good though.
Where da beans at
“Also, I run Arch now, BTW. But I might try Gentoo.”
“…I’ve lost him.”
Fuck cars
“Mom, I don’t know what to do! My sweet baby boy just used the Internet for mere hours, and now he’s talking about having intercourse with motor vehicles!”
Abolish the commodity form
Pretty much how it works.
False. The last frame should have said “I have ADHD” cause I feel that shit in my bones.
You missed one. 😉
It’s true!! It happened to me and you could be next!!
Way she goes, lady. Way she goes.
Clearly not radicalized enough if he is willing to let the rich live to be taxed
Why did the kid become a liberal commie just by joining the fediverse.
It’s either that or complain about all the liberal commies here.
