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Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner Says 'Nobody Works Hard Enough to Justify $1 Billion' | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39081381

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39081380

Jon Queally
Nov 15, 2025

Echoing recent viral comments by music superstar Billie Eilish, Maine Democratic candidate for US Senate Graham Planter is also arguing that the existence of billionaires cannot be justified in a world where working-class people with multiple jobs still cannot afford the basic necessities of life.

In video clip posted Friday of a campaign event in the northern town of Caribou from last month, Platner rails against the “structures” of an economy in which billionaires with vast personal fortunes use their wealth to bend government—including the tax code—to conform to their interests while working people are left increasingly locked out of controlling their own destinies, both materially and politically.

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[–] 1 point 11 months ago*

Lesser-evil politics in action. "I will vote for this literal nazi, who says nazi shit and has a nazi tatoo, because the alternative is worse somehow". I'm sure there were people further right than Hitler in 1930s germany, and germans just voted strategically to keep them out.

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