Both. Both is true.
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Two things can be true
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Reminds me of this:
Never argue with someone whose job depends on not being convinced.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!
Upton Sinclair, 1934
TBF, Trump is glazing the billionaire class about as much as he's glazing Putin and Netanyahu.
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It's not "billionaire class". It's owning class.
It ain't that they have a lot of money, it's how they came to acquire that money as an effect of the system of ownership we currently live under incentivising rampant exploitative practices as the most efficient methods of personal enrichment.
Billionaires are just the best at being exploitative; they aren't the only ones though.
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trump is the champion of the billionaire class.
What we need is people who actually write up policy proposals. It doesn't matter whether you have a senate majority, you need to write the policy proposals now. What actually changes things is societal pressure, and you only build that up by showing that another way is possible, which you show by writing down how exactly you would run an alternative society. For which you have to write down policy proposals.
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It's the same picture
"Learned", lol, yeah that's what the problem is. They're just so stupid. So unbelievably stupid. These people with billions of dollars of think tank research and social data, these people who climbed into power, they just aren't realizing this obvious fact that somehow every non-politician around me has understood since they were 15 years old. They haven't "learned".
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For anyone unfamiliar with Nina Turner, she has run for Congress before and the Democrats united against her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Turner#2021_Ohio's_11th_congressional_district_special_election
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