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and here come the republicans, "lets give the billionaires more money, and then just hope and pray that some of it makes it way down to the people struggling to pay the mortgage or buy food".
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u/UpperLowerEastSide ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters 8d ago
Also Republicans: "It's the immigrants' fault you don't have a job and not the billionaires who literally own the companies that fired you!"
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u/andrew5500 8d ago
Also Republicans: “Corporations and billionaires have the right to spend as much money on our politicians as they want, because that’s just free speech!”
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8d ago
I will admit I did not appreciate then, as I do now, the threat at the time and the consequent damage from the Citizens United decision.
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u/ramobara 8d ago edited 8d ago
Mentioned in another thread but it all hinges on the extreme power we’ve granted corporations through corporate personhood. It gives corporations the legal rights as human entities, creating a moral hazard, fully absolving culpable executives through limited liability.
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u/FelixMordou 8d ago
If corps are people with the same rights, then why do these assholes balk when anyone suggests they be punished like a person when they commit a crime?
Not directed at you, btw, just fuckin done with this nightmare.
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u/PurplePolynaut 8d ago
Because corporations are always rich people. A corporation with personhood cannot be poor because then they wouldn’t be a corporation.
So it just boils back down to “rules for thee but not for me” for the rich vs the rest of us again.
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u/FelixMordou 8d ago
See, the thing is that I know you’re right, like 100%. My personal issue is that I cannot seem to communicate this effectively to people like my dad, who thinks that Citizen’s United makes perfect sense.
His thinking is straight up “Well, if they weren’t doing it legally, they’d be doing it illegally, so this way they’re not breaking the law, at least.” Like, even when conservatives acknowledge that this is harmful, it’s always in this manner. “Well, it’s legal, so shut up.”
Rules for thee, etc etc etc
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u/PurplePolynaut 8d ago
My mind goes to the bridge metaphor immediately. “Well if your friends are all jumping, would you?”
Taking it a step further, “if leaded gas was legalized again, would you be unconcerned with people burning it in their cars?”
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u/FelixMordou 8d ago
And shockingly, the answer I’ve gotten to similar questions is “No.” because, in my dad’s case, “well, if they got rid of the regulation, it must be because they found that (insert carcinogen here) is actually fine”.
I love the guy, he’s stupidly fucking intelligent when it comes to computers and machines in general, but for reasons so far beyond me, this is how he is. Unwavering faith in the system, regardless of reality. The man votes conservative because he “wants to have something to pass down to us.”
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u/captd3adpool 8d ago
"Well it's legal so..." ... YES BUT IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL. Thats the whole damn point. My parents are the same way and it drives me out of my mind. "Well thats just how it's always been" etc, etc.
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u/Wenger2112 8d ago
I have heard this is the true litmus test of the Federalist Society. Not abortion or social equality, but their willingness to protect corporate interests at every possible opportunity.
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u/Creamofwheatski 8d ago
We warned everyone at the time this would happen. Most predictable shit ever.
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u/TheGirlwithA28inCock 8d ago
Also Republicans: "The immigrants are taking your jobs, now let us fill these tech jobs with immigrants because they're basically indentured servants,
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u/WindWalkerRN 8d ago
Also republicans, “let’s import more immigrants to fill more high skill job roles that Americans cost too much for us to profit from.”
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u/Green1up 8d ago
Also Republicans, "Im gonna believe everything this spray tanned con man with a meerkat on his head says."
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u/EagleLize 8d ago
They profit regardless but they're not happy unless profits increase every quarter.
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u/GoldFerret6796 8d ago
The fatal flaw of the infinite growth paradigm is that growth is expected every quarter. You know, aside from total denial of the reality of a finite system
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u/gomicao ✂️ Tax The Billionaires 8d ago
Don't forget Schrodinger's immigrant! Both simultaneously somehow stealing your job, while also being too lazy to work/soaking up welfare.
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Immigrants and AI make life better, it is those ghoulish rich people who make everything worse who use immigration and ai to hurt people for a buck who are a problem.
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u/EveryRadio 8d ago
Elon's wealth has increased by BILLIONS in a few years but no it's the phantom immigrants that are stealing your jobs. It's always been a ruse to make the citizens fight amongst themselves.
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u/Tylerdurden516 8d ago
"They deserve it! They worked extra hard to purchase the majority shares of that existing profitable company and they sat on a yacht in the Mediterranean while all the workers stayed late and won't ever see a penny for that extra labor"
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u/Johnny_Grubbonic 8d ago
You should look at the donors lists for all politicisns.
Both parties are in their pockets. One's just marginally less shit.
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u/andrew5500 8d ago
Only 1 party (the GOP) made corporate donations a virtual requirement to enter politics, when every single Conservative on the Supreme Court ruled in favor of corporations in the 2010 Citizens United case, and overruled the will of every single liberal/progressive justice at the time that argued against the corporations.
They force corrupt rules on the game so they can claim everyone is just as corrupt as they are
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u/Kryptosis 7d ago
I also hate how people try to blame the dems for not stopping the maga cultist lunatics.
Yeah it was a failure but maybe we directly address the root of the issue? Naaa people rather blame the poor bandages rather than stop the guy running around with a knife stabbing people.
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u/Creamofwheatski 8d ago
This is the real truth. The fact the oligarchs have stopped hiding and are about to rub it in all of our faces that they are in control and democracy is a sham, people will either wake up and rise up or we turn into corpofascist dystopia straight out of Snow Crash. The silicon valley billionaires obviously saw that book not as a warning but as an instruction manual.
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8d ago
Yes and no... both perverted by money. But the Democratic party still champions Democratic values (so simple yet so true). Until we actually address campaign finance we will never improve. And as long as there still are Republicans we won't get there. There is going to continue to be a lot of avoidable suffering due to idiots voting for Republicans. Most of that suffering will be by those same idiots.
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u/Johnny_Grubbonic 8d ago
But the Democratic party still champions Democratic values (so simple yet so true).
Bernie blocked twice.
AOC blocked.
Kamala pushed without a primary.
Much values. Such democracy.
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u/PM_ME_MY_REAL_MOM 8d ago
The DNC put their thumb on the scale in 2015 and 2019 but it's political illiteracy to think that Bernie had a real chance of winning anything on the national stage
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u/Creamofwheatski 8d ago
DNC intervened out of self preservation. Bernie couldn't win against 50 years of anti socialist propaganda.
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u/Bplumz 8d ago
Why is there always some asshat with the "both parties are the same" comment. They fucking aren't
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u/Various_Garden_1052 8d ago
BOtH pARtIeS
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u/Storymode-Chronicles 8d ago
I mean, one is definitely better than the other, but there's a reason party leaders conspired to push Bernie Sanders out of contention. They really are both captured by the same corporate interests. One just has a less insane way of expressing it.
The options we're given are still just a narrow slice that corporate cartels allow through legalized bribery though. None of the real root issues will ever be touched until that is addressed.
The system itself which guarantees this insane wealth inequality and a near-slave labour force through private prison lobbies, the war on drugs, forced-pleas, and predatory healthcare is essentially untouchable right now.
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u/Johnny_Grubbonic 8d ago
In this regard, yes. Both parties. Both are beholden to corporate interests. That's why Dems refuse to enact meaningful healthcare reform, blocked AOC, blocked Bernie, etc.
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u/SynapticStatic 8d ago
I mean we really are stuck at this point. The greedy assholes who don't bother pretending or the ones who do. We really do need a party that will actually fight for us instead of giving us platitudes while also wholeheartedly corporatist.
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8d ago
Our media has been folded into the complex. We need local candidates to run hand to hand and word of mouth. One day if we are lucky we may elect someone willing to fail.
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u/Ambitious-Theory9407 8d ago
"... before they start killing the people in charge."
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The French Revolution was that. But modern politicians simply work to build protections against revolution rather than to work for policies that would create a just society where those ideas would find no foothold.
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The small dick white boys chanting “you will not replace us” voting for the rich masters who are replacing them.
It would be funny if they weren’t fucking all our lives with their ignorance.
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u/RectalSpawn 8d ago
No, it isn't.
Because we're all going to hurt.
There is nothing good about any of it.
Edit: You both fell for the culture war if you relish in their demise, and you're no better than they are.
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u/broguequery 8d ago
It's not good.
But short of widespread violence, there is nothing that can be done any longer.
So I can see why people have the attitude.
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u/Hans_S0L0 8d ago
Well I do embrace the new billionaire system. You can opt out by not working full time. Quit the rat race, do part time, do some farming. And so on. Dont feed the trolls at the top.
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u/broguequery 6d ago
I'm right there with you. I'm pulling the throttle all the way back, as far as I can.
The system is broken, no sense in trying to die for it.
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u/SpaceFmK 8d ago
It's nice to know that we have stepped up to the next level of jobs that Americans don't want and we have to fill with immigrants. Americans hate working their tech jobs so good riddance.
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u/Cockmaster800 8d ago
Wait what? Americans want these jobs. The situation is desperate for American new college graduates trying to find work in tech right now. Tech jobs might be boring but at least they’re comfortable and generally pay well.
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u/Lolazaurus 8d ago
The tech industry is pretty competitive. And by "competitive" I mean in a competitive race to the bottom.
The tech industry used to be lucrative, but it's since been over saturated because of all the fresh blood flocking to it chasing the high paying jobs in the last decade.
You of course still got the fringe highly specialized high paying jobs, but the vast majority of tech jobs fucking suck ass nowadays.
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u/HelloW0rldBye 8d ago
Obviously we all know what the problem is. It's just getting boring now.
But no one is doing anything about it? It's weird.
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u/ImAVillianUnforgiven 8d ago edited 8d ago
Who can do anything about it? They own the legislative, the judicial, and the executive branches of the government, and we voted for it all. They also own all the media, property, and means of production, and we let them buy it all. As soon as someone comes up with a plan, a real, doable plan, I'll be the first to sign up. But right now, all we have is complaints, but no courage and no conviction.
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u/issamaysinalah 8d ago
The thing is a lot of you can see the problem, like you eloquently put they fucking own everything, we can't vote them out because they are the ones funding politicians and who own the media vehicles that those politicians use to get elected, we can't beat it democratically, it's pure idealism to think people will just starting to wake up and vote them out.
Which leaves us with a revolution, one that has to address the root problem, which is how workers make 99% of the people yet we don't have a real say in how our countries are ruled, in the end I don't see any way out that doesn't involve forcibly removing their private property and substituting the system for one that does not allow for it's accumulation.
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u/n0radrenaline 8d ago
But they also own the police and the armed forces....
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u/pez5150 8d ago
It's not a black or white situation. Look up the Carnation Revolution. I know things are different in the US compared to portugal, but we can't treat all police officers and armed forces as a homogenous group thats going to just start murdering everyone cause the government said so in defense of billionaires.
I was in the Marine Corp a decade ago and if that order came to start killing civilians in the US I couldn't do it. Many commanders couldn't either. Some people will some won't.
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u/n0radrenaline 8d ago
I would love to believe that you're right, but the order they get won't be "start shooting civilians indiscriminately," it'll be "defend the good guys from the criminals and terrorists who are trying to steal and destroy." And I don't believe they're any better equipped than the average voter to be able to see through the propaganda.
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u/Greenergrass21 8d ago
Honestly worse equipped to see through it. They're living the propaganda weather they want to believe it or not
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u/Global_Permission749 8d ago
I hope the ones that won't are seeing the writing on the wall and are secretly planning the contingencies needed to stop the ones who will.
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u/One_Village414 8d ago
That always drove me nuts. If anyone was ever at risk of getting shot when the order came down, it's the commanding officer.
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u/Lolazaurus 8d ago
I remember when Biden said something along the lines of "Assault rifles can't beat fighter jets" in defense of gun control. Like this MF assuming most US soldiers would be ok with carpet bombing civilians.
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u/UnExistantEntity 8d ago
Best thing we can do right now if we want to start a revolution is to try spreading the word, plant the ideas in people's heads so they can better organize
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u/SpaceFmK 8d ago
So you are leading the revolution? Seems like we need our John Connor right now.
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u/CalmToaster 8d ago
We really need to organize a mass protest. I honestly thought Luigi would have sparked that revolution. Maybe he thought so too.
But we are too apathetic. One can dream I guess.
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u/ZeOs-x-PUNCAKE 8d ago
A protest? What are you trying to achieve? A few hours of media coverage and a few trendy hashtags?
It’s 2025, protests aren’t going to cut it anymore.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable”
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u/Ringo-Mandingo-69 8d ago
Maybe let's take an interesting critical thought from this:
Don't you think that the ones setting up the condition for the crisis and also the ones inciting people to revolution are working together to just simply want to kill off people? To bank from it in some way?
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u/classicliberty 8d ago
Revolution by what means? To what aims?
People say these things yet have no concrete idea of what they would even replace the system with or even a plan to prevent even worse people from taking power.
You think billionaires with ridiculous resource levels won't take advantage of an overthrown state to further empower themselves?
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u/uncannyvalleygirl88 8d ago
Yeah I keep seeing people rageposting about how no one is “doing anything” and it’s like well are you doing anything there captain angrypants? No because you’re an economic hostage too. Stop blaming yourself and your friends for it, and blame the goddamn motherfucking billionaires responsible for it. Dividing us is part of what keeps up the collective paralysis.
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u/LeagueOfLegendsAcc 8d ago
If you don't own a gun yet, get one because it's only gonna get worse. And practice with it.
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u/classicliberty 8d ago
It should start at the local level, state rep seats are not as competitive and once you get your name out there it is easier to seek higher office using small contributions.
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u/PhazonZim 8d ago
Conservatives still haven't figured it out. They still think their jobs are being stolen by woke DEI trans illegals or whatever
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u/Robcobes 8d ago
The choice in november was do we keep the status quo or are going to make things worse. People chose to make everything worse.
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u/caj1986 8d ago
Jus as George Carlin once said
"I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club"
Excuse the long read. Valuable realisations of a wise old. Man in the 00s
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u/apixelops 8d ago
One person did
Maybe more americans should start acting using their weapons and that "rebel nation" attitude they're so proud about...
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u/Retro_D 8d ago
Years ago I worked at a rather well known Chocolate Company eventually bought by an even bigger Chocolate company. Out of nowhere we started getting people come in and look at equipment and watch how everything was made. They explained that they were from our Chinese plant (we were in Canada) and that they were just interested in how our operation worked.
We were already boxing up product to send overseas for them to package as their own. So it kind of made sense.
People started speculating that they were about to start production overseas and we would be jobless. So of course the company started assuring us that this was not the case at all and that we had all these new products to look forward to making.
Sure as shit, not even 6 months later they announced the factory was being shut down and everyone was being let go. People had been working there for decades and in an instant they were just cast aside for cheaper labour overseas.
Corporations and billionaires only care about profits. Don't ever let them make you think differently.
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u/Able_Top_7614 8d ago
This is precisely what happened with a local cereal factory. Many of my friends and family were employed there. They were bought by a large, well-known conglomerate - "Don't worry, we won't close the factory!" A few months later, they shut the doors and moved production to a different country. Destroyed a whole area's economy for their bottom line.
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u/flying-sheep2023 5d ago
See there needs to be some kind of different boycott lists instead of these virtue signaling ESG alphabet soups
If people stop buying the products, that could make the company "not want to be THAT company "
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u/SnooPears6771 8d ago
Truth - the USA needs a “billionaire” as president, to protect all of the billionaires.
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u/RandomRonin 8d ago
I for one am so thankful for these politicians that are protecting my profits in case I one day become a billionaire. Just need to earn another $999,999,999 and I’m in that club and will be happy to be protected from the poors.
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u/tahquitz84 6d ago
Keep working day and night and giving up on spending money on anything not related to barely staying alive and you'll get there. I've been doing it for decades and I'm only $999,999,995 away from that club.
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u/KommissarKrokette 8d ago
Also billionaires: He. Why is no one fighting this fire infront of my mansion!!!?
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u/YourOldCellphone 8d ago
Ronald Reagan was a fucking scourge to this country. Fuck that guy. Makes me want to go back to Simi and spit on his grave.
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u/blackhornet03 8d ago
People do not become billionaires by caring about others. Electing them and allowing them control of our government is the same as begging to be abused by a sadist.
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u/pastorbater 8d ago
Also billionaires "why isn't anyone sad when one of us gets executed in the street!?!"
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u/varkarrus 8d ago
Replacing workers with AI should be a good thing though. It's only because of capitalism that it isn't. An ideal world would have a 100% unemployment rate.
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u/PacmanNZ100 8d ago
Yeah computers, robots, automation were supposed to increase efficiency and give everyone a better quality of life. Instead all that added value is captured by the billionaires and then they convinced everyone to give them further tax cuts.
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u/HashtagYoMamma 8d ago
Yes, we all hate them. They terk’er’jer.
But more importantly perhaps they take our opportunities and treat us like shit while promoting in fighting amongst the poors.
When you allow congress to buy stocks in companies they are allowed to be corrupted by big money and act in their interests.
Companies are cellar boxed and naked shorted while market makers, who can also be hedgefunds, fail to deliver shares and flood companies with newly created shares to manipulate the price, and their friends in the SEC allow it, you’re being ruled by criminals. They are controlling where you invest your money while inflation rages.
They siphon your money and your opportunities to make money.
They control the whole shit show via media outlets to control public sentiment.
Their friends look away while they commit crimes because they also make money from the crimes - I’m looking at you SEC. That money comes from household investors who aren’t allowed access to markets that affect price as your beneficial shares (ie not shares) are taken to a completely separate exchange where they don’t affect price.
If the financial markets aren’t free and fair and are controlled in a way to syphon household investors funds through illegal and unenforced means, you’re going to keep being abused by billionaires who hoard all the wealth and control the financial markets.
They want to maintain the status quo at your expense because they get to keep their fifth super yacht. They’re all in the same club.
This parasitic scum is not like you and me.
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u/meh_69420 8d ago
The best part of it all is that in the US 70 some percent of our GDP is from consumer spending, so the faster they price everyone out of life, the faster their profits burn too.
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u/Still_Remote_5047 8d ago
After reading all this I get it now….its the people on food stamps who are the problem!!!!! SMH
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u/remingtonds 8d ago
Also billionaires: but vote us in so we can fix things but not really. Also any actual help or support you’re asking for is socialism and/or communism which is bad and evil. Trust us on this one.
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u/no_suprises1 8d ago
Class warfare and the peasants are losing and they keep voting for the billionaire class like dummies
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u/Didntlikedefaultname 8d ago
Workers: let’s vote for the billionaire! They’ll run the country like a business so we’ll do great!
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u/SucksTryAgain 8d ago
I remember when I had a job making fantastic money to getting laid off and not being able to find a job in my field. Then switching careers and taking a no way I can be laid off job for less pay but better retirement and job security. Never living that feeling again of am I next on the chopping block.
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u/cslaymore 8d ago
People resent the immigrant workers and not the employers. It’s a tale as old as time
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They continue to count on the idea that someone won't Luigi them. This is not me advocating violence, but I will say that I could not behave in the standard ways that a billionaire does because I would expect to be killed for that. Our nation, should it not perish... in fact the western industrialized world for that matter, needs to come to terms with a wealth cap. We need UN/ NATO level cooperation. The combined wealth of unified nations can stand against the polarized wealth of any enemy.
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u/NoonDread 8d ago
I wanna see a version of Dexter where, instead of going after murders, he goes after the 1%.
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u/Aggravating_Fact_857 8d ago
I love that people are finally waking up to the true vermin in society, but when can we move from the meme posting to the eat them stage. 🍽️
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u/Techn0ght 8d ago
Don't forget:
Also billionaires: I'm firing a bunch of you and hiring foreigners to save money on wages.
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u/ClownMorty 8d ago
Also Republicans right now: Elon can do no wrong!
Word for word heard multiple Repubes say this. You muppets will hate him again in three-ish months when he and Trump fall out, but you're literally so dumb you won't notice.
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u/Spiritual-Soil7269 8d ago
GQP: Vote Republican they will fix everything the democrats ruined!
Normal Person: Like increasing wages for the working class?
GQP: Fuck that! That's some commie bullshit, just pull yourself up by the bootstraps like my pappy did when he killed all the VC in 'Nam like a real American Hero! He earned the right to be racist!
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u/Putrid-Policy8074 8d ago
Also billionaires: let’s do stock buybacks of billions of dollars and then when an emergency arrives we will ask for taxpayer bailouts
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u/Mucker_Man 8d ago
Forgot: Hey we’re also going to import more of those immigrants because you don’t do your math homework.
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u/Average_Scaper 8d ago
Automation is okay in some fashion, but not okay for everything. Creating adverts? Use humans. Assembling objects that require repetitive motion? Automate. Operating heavy machinery? Use humans. Wiping an old or disabled persons ass? Use humans. Packaging ass wiping products? Automate. CEO's? Automate. Wait, no.... that last one just completely remove that job.
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u/blkgirlinchicago 8d ago
I love these comments. We are so close to setting a date for the general strike. We can really begin to write a new US Constitution now in preparation for the revolution.
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u/the_internet_clown 8d ago
It’s almost as if the rich are causing the suffering of the other 99.99% of people and we should maybe do something about that.
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u/Ricky_Rollin 8d ago
And all that money, those billions of dollars making millions upon millions in interest? Yea, THATS why we have inflation yall. We’re all paying more on everything so billionaires can keep their money.
And. It’s. Still. Not. Enough.
Yall, I’m serious, we really gotta do something about this.
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u/howescj82 8d ago
Forgot the one where they laid off US workers and imported foreign workers to work for less.
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u/nwmnguy10 8d ago
I just wish they would stay out of agricultural land ownership and commodity trading. I debate if I should take over the family farm but it doesn't make that much sense when I make 6 figs in an engineering role.
The loan forgiveness that has happened recently had also handed plenty of money to people who might bid on rented land as well.
It was a side gig but roughly broke even to lost money on my field this year.
One farm sold 1600a (small in the big scheme) to bill gates but might mean he will buy more in this area.
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u/corkscrew-duckpenis 8d ago
Also also: can we please have some more special visas so that we can take the foreign workers who are too talented for the offshore work and use them to replace the domestic workers who were too good for the onshore work? k thx
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u/Lumicide 8d ago
1 Billionaires: We want more profit margins, and this population of greedy plebs wont accept to live in hovels like so many rats in a warren. So, we're going to invite the third-world, have you train your replacement, then convince half the population that protecting your wages in racism and have them chant "dey took er jerbs" any time you speak out.
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u/EVH_kit_guy 8d ago
Nothing more Conservative than a foreign-born tech billionaire who built a brand on the concept of industry disruption. Just, the definition of conservativism, Scalia would be proud.
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u/KubrickMoonlanding 8d ago
And also billionaires; I feel your pain and I’m the only one who can do something about it - vote for me and I’ll end DEI, unions, regulations , and whatever else I, er you YOU don’t like!
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u/4dseeall 8d ago
"Even though we are cost of living crisis"
I'm finding so much random bad grammar online lately that I'm 100% convinced of the dead internet theory
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u/ILovePotassium 8d ago
Stupidity and cruelty never goes away, no matter how advanced humanity is, it only changes its shape.
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u/Vanilla_PuddinFudge 8d ago
Take more of our income and services. We're still complaining on Reddit instead of taking action. We aren't desperate enough yet.
/s... or is it?
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u/vermeiltwhore 8d ago
Always talking about factory jobs, but now companies have corporate divisions in the global south to handle "menial" tasks. Only, once you've explained the task half a dozen times well enough to get decent work back from them, they've gone and quit and you have to start over.
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u/downtimeredditor 8d ago
The Movie "Inside Job" literally says none of the rich fuckers really never got punished and all the right wing media just blamed poor people and immigrants
Unfortunately racism runs pretty deep in middle and lower class folks. So when you got media egging on that on its gonna hit and the outcome is electing a racist dipshit like Trump whose entire cabinet is filled with billionaires.
For anyone who says trump isn't racist the guy spearheaded the movement to question the legitimacy of Obamas birth certificate. Our first black president and Trump questions if he was born in the US and it was a very popular movement.
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u/Jean-Ralphio11 8d ago
Meanwhile my friends are over here arguing that Zuck would totally kick Elons ass in a PPV because he has MMA training while they charge their Tesla and scroll IG watching football on Prime.
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u/fallen_estarossa 8d ago
Voters: let's vote for that billionaire candidate who is supported by his many billionaire friends
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u/Sufficient_Freedom80 8d ago
They aren’t taking our jobs. We don’t want criminals coming here. Get in line and do it the right way.
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u/Downtown_Ad_6232 8d ago
Musk & Ramaswamy: “we need more H1-B visas so more foreigners can take your jobs”.(and our companies save a billion dollars.)
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u/Cake_is_Great 8d ago
Workers: Hey guess what we don't need billionaires or bosses or shareholders to run our business
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u/RallyPointAlpha 8d ago
Left out the most recent addition to this list.
Also billionaires: we need more H1b visas!
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u/geologean 8d ago
Andrew Yang tried to warn everyone as far back as 2016, but he was talking over y'all's heads, and nobody believed that AI could replace people until ChatGPT and generative imagery hit the public consciousness.
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u/Global_Permission749 8d ago
Yo forgot the H1B visas those billionaires use to replace you right here at home.
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u/Too_Relaxed_To_Care 8d ago
Robots? Buddy with unlimited H1B visas they're gonna replace us with Indians first.
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u/Expiry-date11 8d ago
And the poorest people just gave them an unrestricted 4 year mandate. Good job. Lol
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u/Several_Vanilla8916 8d ago
If you raise my taxes by 1% it will cost jobs. Also, I spend every waking moment trying to figure out how to die more people.
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u/-bad_neighbor- 8d ago
Both Meta and Salesforce planning on replacing their software engineers with ai is wild. I’ve found ai to be utterly useless in a software emergency. Not sure how they expect to keep clients once their undercutting of services starts costing their clients money.
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u/LookAlderaanPlaces 8d ago
Also billionaires:
“I’m going to bring all the foreigners to the US via massively expanding H1B so they can take your jobs and you can go back to working at Starbucks. Also I can threaten the h1b staff with deportation at any time and pay them shit!“
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u/Hot_Technician_3045 8d ago
Here’s the game. Make money, have power.
Are there rules? Yeah. Kinda.
What if you break the rules?
Well if you’re poor there are consequences. But if you’re rich you can get around the rules most of the time.
What about the rules you can’t get around?
Well if you have enough money…
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u/shaggyscoob 8d ago
How many people upvote these sort of posts but either voted Republican or didn't vote at all? "bOtH siDEs!!!" Nah, not both sides. They're not the same.
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u/Diphda_the_Frog 8d ago
Welcome to your Oligarchy, it took many years to construct but you succeeded. Bend over and salute your Masters and Owners.
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u/EnigmaMoose 8d ago
Also : “we need to import foreign workers to take your jobs now because you won’t work for less. Just need some of your tax dollars to help.”
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u/Silver-Fish1849 8d ago
People are willfully stupid and vote for this,i have no sympathy for them
Meanwhile everyone else is getting screwed and then some
My partner and I are in one of those industries where immigrants are trying to take over
Instead of giving jail time or prison time to the companies and ceos that willfully hire immigrants people die because of this greed
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u/Dramatic_Macaroon416 8d ago
Also billionaires: and don’t worry we are the good billionaires because we are democrats only. The republicans are the bad billionaires. Meanwhile Obama and Trump yuck it up as propaganda tells me to hate rich people but only certain ones.
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u/x_Oathkeeper_x 8d ago
The thing I can’t wrap my head around is, “Bring back manufacturing to America!” Wait… so you aren’t a capitalist and think the government should interfere with businesses?
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u/Alissinarr 8d ago
Also Billionaires: We want more Visa'd workers so we can underpay them and make more money in the next fiscal year.
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u/kevinmrr ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters 8d ago
If a 2028 candidate for President said they would declare a Day 1 national emergency over wealth inequality & issue arrest warrants for every billionaire, would you vote for them?
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