We can skip the tax and straight to Luigi. Your call.
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Sorry, Richie Rich, but people don't get to choose their race. You, conversely, could have chosen not to be a soulless currency hoarder.
Nothing wrong with hating a person for things they did voluntarily.
Taxing the rich isn't the solution, guillotines however.......
Guillotines are too 18th century. We can use woodchippers. Feet first!
but it's easier to pass the head around the crowd than whatever bits and pieces left by the woodchipper
Listen pumpkin "tax the rich" is the last thin sliver that stands between you and what the rest of us really want. So take your pick.
Yes. But it's all relative. You are probably a very rich person compared to the poorest 20% of the world. Should they eat you?
And that's called integrity. A rare sight in these troubled times.
I think that's just called
vorarephilia
You know, it's tricky. I get called rich on the Internet, based on my position and salary. But I don't feel rich. I don't own my own home and I doubt I ever will. I rarely take vacations,I don't eat out - too expensive. I don't go to the pub with my friends anymore, can't afford it.
Because I live in Vancouver, an expensive city.
It's all relative.
It’s totally relative. My husband and I together in Germany earn about half of what I used to earn alone in the US (we’re a student and an apprentice, so we earn especially little). I’m still significantly more prepared for emergency costs now than I used to be, because the total rent for my apartment is about half what I used to pay, and I no longer have significant health/health insurance or vehicle costs.
They can start with my ass.
We’re talking about people that are, objectively, richer than 99% of literally everyone else in the entire world. The point you’re trying to make is relatively meaningless in the current context.
Not really. You probably have all your needs met (enough food, somewhere comfortable to sleep) with leftover resources. Many in the world do not have their basic needs met. You could give your extra resources (everything above necessary food and board) to the poor. You are hoarding wealth from their perspective. Just like you see the billionaires hoarding wealth.
Don’t break an arm jerking yourself off, there, hero.
Oh I'm no hero, I've got way more than I need and I'm enjoying it. Not bezos levels, but quite fine thank you. But as such I can see the vitriol against the millionaires is rather hypocritical. And I can jerk off however I see fit.
Then maybe shut the fuck up.
Why? U can stfu about billionaires being evil if you're the same evil.
I’m not the same evil as a billionaire, and that accusation tells us everything we need to know about you. I’ll gladly take the ire of folks like you, the things that make you clap are disgusting. Go live up to your username, that’s all you are to these malignant fucks.
So if I were a poor person in a 3rd world country who couldn't afford dinner, let alone a phone, would the message that you have more than your share and should distribute your wealth be any less true?
Yes. Regular, average citizens don’t have the means to single handedly dismantle systemic issues. Should we all just exhaust ourselves into homelessness? What would that change? Should I sell off all my belongings and live in complete destitution to achieve your standard of moral and ethical ability to speak on any issue of societal justice with any level of validity? I could liquidate all of my value and it still wouldn’t be enough to change the situation for anyone in a 3rd world situation. Either give up all your belongings and donate ALL the proceeds to those in need or shut the fuck up you hypocrite. There are people who could single handedly make the world better, but it’s not anyone that’s struggling to pay rent and put food on the table, you smug jackass.
Not my moral standards. Like I said, I'm happy where I am. I'm just pushing your moral standards back on you, from a different perspective. You're calling my a hypocrite , but that's you projecting. I understand it hurts to have to see yourself as unjust when using the same yard stick as you use to criticize the billionaires. And yes, if you sold all your shit and moved to some 3rd world country and lived frugally amoung the people but brought in supplies for others, you could make a huge positive difference - probably for an entire village. I get that you don't want to give up your comforts for that. Neither do I. But that's just how billionaires see it too looking at you as the poor. It's all relative.
Holy shit, shut the fuck up you stupid attempt at being a mouthpiece.
Sorry I hurt your feelings with the truth.
You earnestly believe that, don’t you?
If it quacks like a duck ...
You’re a sad little man.
So treating the rich like everyone else who is paying taxes is a “racial slur”.
When You’re Accustomed To Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression
Tax the rich is the moderate position.
It's tax or eat.
The interesting part for me, is that you can clearly infer from this that billionaires consider themselves a different race.
They certainly consider themselves outside of society. Even the sociopath billionaire equivalents of the early previous century had beaten into them the understanding of civic duty and charity, so they built schools, libraries, and hospitals. Today’s billionaires have none of that other than a desire to lighten their tax load and donate in self-serving ways. They are truly parasites on society, they leech off of everyone and cause far more harm relative to the absolutely minuscule few jobs they might create - and even then the jobs only serve to make the billionaire richer.
Exactly. Even the most brutal lords and rulers understood that they needed to keep their populace placated somehow or there will be trouble.
The Italian warlords and nobility of the 15th and 16th centuries were some of the most monstrous, murderous bastards you've ever seen, but they also bankrolled much of the art that Renaissance Italy is famous for.
It's easier to think of them as Lords and Ladies ruling by birthright.
I agree. It is hateful. People hate your face and what your kind is doing to the world and to it's people.
Is it morally unjust though? Nope. You are the leeches of this world and unless forcibly removed you will destroy more and more lives, most likely the world.
Beint taxed fairly is the easy way.
So being rich is a new race?
Just give all your money away and you won’t be a target of the slur.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
"please shoot me"
Some slurs are worth speaking. "Beat the rich!", "Ax the rich!", and "Luigi time!" are wonderfully horrible things to say.
Glad this guy is reminding us that the extremely wealthy can say shit so profoundly stupid you have to question their mental capacity. Really drives home that circumstances and greed can and do make stupid people rich.
the same people think pedophelia is the same as being part of lgtbq+ crowd.
Wait till he hears what I want to do to the rich. He'll wish we were just taxing them.
"Honey, the government has raised taxes, we'll have to cut the yacht and only keep two homes. And the cabin, of course."
"I want a divorce"
The rich can always get rid of their money and then they will be like everyone else. They don't have to be wealthy.
its either tax or eat.
Its true, I do hate the rich, I want to see every last cent taken from them and given to the needy.
Maybe it is ... but there's also some justice in it. At lot of rich people got that what by taking advantage of a lot of taxpayer-funded infrastructure (like Bezos, say). Others got that way by paying their workers as little as they could get away with. Others slowly buy up the competitions then sell shittier stuff for the same price.
When you add it all up, it's clear that they've gotten the system rigged in their favor for a looong time. It's payback time, muh-fuhs.
He's not wrong. I hate that SOB.
edit: lmao OP didn't get the joke. I hate the rich landlord asshole, not Mamdani.
The only minority it's ethical to discriminate against
There's something poetic about the fact that this guy looks like lex luthor.
Doctor's 'pull it out by its head' slogan is 'just as hateful' as racial slurs, New York tick says
Yes it is hateful. That is absolutely true. It's also absolutely true that this hatred is based on choices and actions, not on a characteristic that someone was born with or did not have any choice over. So fuck him.
So all I would have to say to him is this: You want people to be proud of you, do something that is worthy of praise, you pathetic bastard. And hey! If you can't think of anything off the top of your head, there's plenty of mouths to feed and we can always build a guillotine.

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