What do they have to fear? The Democrats have zero intentions of reversing Citizens United.
They’ll be soon black/pink/lavender/green-washing their corporations’ images, again. Just like they did before Trump. And anyone falling for it is a sucker, and deserves to be treated as one.
Analysts at SemiAnalysis ahead of the election feared the worst…“[Hinojosa] would impose a moratorium until legislation is passed that gives communities a voice, protects household utility bills, and ends the tax incentives for data centers."
Few sentences more effectively demonstrate the disconnect between billionaire capitalists and the rest of us.
futurism.com is full of clickbait garbage
Never forgive, never forget.
they need to be punished. we should set up pages to remember which of them collaborated and how. make little shrines when they’re punished.
Tomorrow google maps will show Lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico and they will put black history month back on their calendar.
They went all in on installing technofeudalism and red and blue states are adopting mass surveillance an AI data centers so it kinda seems like they’re still winning
true. that’s why they need to be killed. t
They need to be arrested for sure
no. no don’t let them hang out with their cop retainers. they need to be killed. they were out openly collaborating fasch. the things they admitted to and lobbied for in public are enough to warrant death. they did much much worse. they need to die. it needs to be a spectacle. their bunkers need to be raided. their bedrooms need to be flashed and filled with chemical weapons as armed men storm in and kill everything that moves.
no trial will survive this amount of money. they worked against the concept of democracy. they worked against the concept of justice. if they aren’t just killed they will be released and it will happen again. they need to be killed.
Leave no prisoners comrade.
If only there was some way they could have known.
I only know the term gambled and lost to describe a fart that is accidentally a shit.
The problem is that they will just shift who they cosy up to and who they bribe with “lobbying”. We all need politicians with the integrity to stand up to that.
Tell that to California, who just decided it didn’t want to tax billionaires by a landslide.
still want yo do something to them.
I thought part of the reason was because it’s a one time thing? But the oligarchs were against it, which is a great reason to be for it, imo.
Well we passed one of the alternative bills written by the oligarchs that makes it harder to tax personal properties like owning a corporation.
People still think “the job creators” will leave to other states.
we should make sure they can’t.
Ya what a fucking joke. I had hope for that one.
I saw the “trickle down” happening in San Francisco first hand when I got off the Rapid Transit a stop early and emerged in the middle of a cardboard city.
yeah you can kind of smell it in most of the state now. closing bathrooms in a place where it doesn’t rain was not a smart decision.
they gambled and lost and now taxpayers pay their gambling bills
economy über alles
We don’t have to, the government can literally take their money if we collectively decide to. Personally, I think “no billionaires” is a pretty good policy. Once someone’s net worth hits $999M, the government takes all their income above that amount, taxes any gifts they receive at 100% of their value, takes all their capital gains, etc.
I think once you hit that level of wealth laws don’t apply to you, so they shouldn’t protect you either.
We can all decide the government should take their money, and politicians can do exactly what capital wants as always.
Or, just impose a percentage based wealth tax like some of the Scandinavian countries. Simple and efficient.
or just kill them. we don’t get anything from them existing and their existence is always a monument to exploitation. I don’t know how rich it’s possible to get on luck talent andhonest work, but it’s a hell of a lot less than a billion dollars.
Porque no los dos?
Yeah, it should probably be a progressive rate but with the catch being that the rate never stops increasing!
So maybe we start very small – a 1% tax on wealth over $10 million. And that $10 million is also our magic number below which the wealth tax cannot drag you, which will be important in a second.
Then there are a few tiers above that which don’t need to be fancy. Maybe add 1% to the incremental rate per $100 million.
But then at $1 billion, the incremental rate becomes 100%. So if you end up over the limit you essentially get set back to $1 billion, which is further taxed according to our imaginary progressive rate.
I also wonder if it might be a good idea to provide a strong incentive for the individual to disburse their gains to charitable causes rather than the burden of administration always falling to the government. One interesting thing might be to introduce one or two even higher brackets that go above 100%.
Say that at $2 billion the tax on each additional dollar becomes 150%. That means that if you get lazy or just want to hoard wealth short term, you not only get knocked back down to $1 billion but lower than that.
Honestly though, we don’t need that complexity. 100% wealth tax on anything over a billion and the government does extravagant shit to honor the top payers each year and names buildings after them and whatnot.
or we just kill them. they don’t add anything to society. a billionaire is always an exploiter.
One’s realistic (literally already implemented in places), the other’s wishful thinking.
you think they can’t die? it’s been done. it’s an improvement even when they fuck up other shit at the same time.
I think that once you hit $1B, a red laser dot appears on your forehead.
The phone rings: “Decide your fate, or it will be decided for you.”
They gambled and we all lost
as is tradition. Time to convert to new traditions.
Yeah lost what? 10% of billions of dollars still leaves them with billions of dollars.
Uhhh
Seems pretty safe to say MAGA lost the House and the Senate and still, ain’t ‘nothing gon’ happen.
@[email protected] something for you?
Or are you naive enough to think all the sudden there’s a plan to undo all the bad shit that’s been happening the last couple of decades that didn’t get fixed during the time democrats previously held the house and Senate?
Or, perhaps you have something you’d like to share about how they’re going to counter presidential Veto power?
The fuck? You okay bro?
…what? Do I know you? 😅 I don’t think we’ve ever actually interacted. Unless you thought you were on another one of your accounts or something…
But just to humor you, yes obviously a lot of established Democrats are shitty, and have done shitty things, and rarely undo shitty things they could have. But you cannot seriously compare them with an out-in-the-open cabal of fascists and child-rapists. That is orders of magnitudes worse, and the US has been in free fall since they took over (again).
I don’t pretend to know all the answers, I don’t claim that certain things will happen, all I ever advocate for is to make changes where we can, usually by voting, and continuing to have hope that we can move toward a better future. Massive change cannot happen overnight, and before we get to a fully progressive government, we have to go back to an actual functioning democracy first. These midterms are the first step toward that, and with the amount of progressives getting elected, and the shear number of seats turning from red to blue, it was more of a success than most people even dared to hope for.
If you or anyone else has problems with that, or casts doubt or aspersions on it or on people celebrating this win, then I have to question what your end-goal really is
I’m not comparing them to MAGA. But you sure did read into what I did say and put your own spin on it.
all the bad shit that’s been happening the last couple of decades
Buddy, if you weren’t at least mainly talking about MAGA here, then I guess that means you prefer the way they do it
Votes are public on Lemmy.
Oh wow, so you called me out by name because I downvoted you?? 😂 The absolute fragility…
Did you see this one too?
We triggered this dude with a single down vote lol 🤜🤛
Darlin, I called you out because you had nothing at all to contribute to the conversation and yet you apparently had an opinion.
So just because I disagreed with you (or thought you were a fucking moron not worth the time it would take to refute your shit) you typed up a response calling me out?
Do you do that to everyone who downvotes you without comment? Because if so I gotta tell you, I have a feeling you are a busy bastard
Lol. Nope. I picked you out of the clear blue sky on a random Wednesday just for shits and giggles.
Round up the CEOs and introduce them all to a woodchipper.
Why are you suggesting something so kind?
make them watch as you kill or sterilize the children they polluted the world with. make clear everything they hoped for will be stopped, because they hoped for it. kill their adult loved ones. then get to work on them with the power tools on live stream. show them the numbers. show them how much they’re hated. show them how much everyone wants this.
then someday, when its been hollowed out and empty for years, you let the meat die.
Maybe like, a really dull woodchipper, or one with the blades on backwards or something
Or make sure to feed them in feet first
This might prove inefficient, but I think it’s worth a few hundred trial attempts, for science
As a treat.
