• sturger@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    ‘I don’t think we should have billionaires’

    Half of America’s trailer-park residents pass out because he dared to attack our beloved billionaires. “But what about when we become billionaires!?!”

    The reason we have had to deal with this over the centuries is half our population is authoritarian. The idea that someone can punch up as a violation of the laws of man.

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      18 hours ago

      Because of what seems to be uniquely an American ideology: they too could be a billionaire someday, so therefore an attack against billionaires is an attack against them.

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        3 hours ago

        It’s not an accident, but intentionally taught propaganda to keep the masses from ever banding together and rising up. Imagine if they’d told all the peasants in 18th century France that someday, they might become royalty too!

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        14 hours ago

        It’s not. On some level it’s in many, many people.

        A while ago, Poland wanted to introduce extra property tax on the owners of three and more properties. The idea was to combat “investors”, and flippers. The Polish Internet lost its god damn mind.

        Of course, a lot of the noise must’ve been sponsored, but regular people, people who can barely afford the mortgage rates for a single apartment started shouting against that property tax, as if they were at any risk of getting hit by it.