• Eternal192@anarchist.nexus
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    I’m sorry but these days this whole “republican” and “democrat” or “right” and “left” separation is bullshit! there are only the rich and their supporters and those that are pretending to oppose them all the while being paid to pretend and all that is at our expense, our lives are getting worse every day while they have so much money that they couldn’t spend it even if they lived a thousand years, question is how long will we allow them to keep destroying our lives.

    • Pissed@lemmy.ml
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      Demonrats and Rethuglicans. Honestly money and the fact that we constantly reinvent commodities that we can accumulate is more of an issue than tax policy mother fuckers have been arguing about taxes for thousands of years.

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      If you want to make any difference on that issue at all, the first step would be to clarify who youre talking about

      Most people hate “the rich” as in rich people, as in people that can afford a limo and a five star hotel and some lavish lifestyle. They say tax the rich as in people significantly wealthier than them. But even that 5% or 1% or even 0.1% really are not the ones with the money. They just side with the people who have the serious money because they feel targeted by the general rhetoric of “tax the rich”

      The reality is that the dysfunction in society and poverty stems from not taxing the 0.0000001%, the like 10-20 people in the entire world who control a majority of the money that exists. Musk, Bezos, people of that level of wealth. For most of the people in the world, anyone making over $50k a year is just as vast of a difference as the one that exists between someone making $50k and someone worth $5M. Which realistically is far less vast than the difference between someone worth $5M versus $500B. Making anything over $50k a year puts someone in the top 10% of wealth holders in the entire world. In America that is hardly a living wage, but globally speaking it is certainly being among the rich.

      For any progress to occur its absolutely necessary that moderately wealthy people (who still have a lot of power in society and monetarily) to side with the bottom 99% to tax the 0.0000001% of people whos money never moves. The people who couldnt spend it all if they tried, in a world where money is useless to the majority if it doesnt change hands.

      Thank you for coming to my ted talk

  • limer@lemmy.ml
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    I feel like there is only one way progressive foreign policy could happen.

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        If this person doesn’t understand that the United States is a one party state by this point I either assume they’re either young, naive, stupid, or they’re purposefully stuffing wool in their ears and have a blindfold on, or some combination of the things I just listed.