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[–] 104 points 6 months ago (1 child)

We can skip the tax and straight to Luigi. Your call.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    I've said that if I went out and they were guillotining billionaires I would say "Hey, I wanted to do this with progressive taxation, single-payer healthcare, and free daycare, but you just wouldn't compromise, so here we are!"

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  • [–] 63 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Taxing the rich isn't the solution, guillotines however.......

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Guillotines are too 18th century. We can use woodchippers. Feet first!

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    but it's easier to pass the head around the crowd than whatever bits and pieces left by the woodchipper

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    But why though? All they did in the past was hold up the head and cry out 'behold the head of (insert name here)'.

    A public execution with them clearly in the woodchopper and screaming in agony is all what is needed.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [+] -17 points 6 months ago (26 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (17 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (15 children)

    Don’t break an arm jerking yourself off, there, hero.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (14 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    Why? U can stfu about billionaires being evil if you're the same evil.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Holy shit, shut the fuck up you stupid attempt at being a mouthpiece.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Sorry I hurt your feelings with the truth.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    You earnestly believe that, don’t you?

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    Hang the rich, redistribute their wealth.

    Better?

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    TAX THE RICH!

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Tax the rich is the moderate position.

    It's tax or eat.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    The interesting part for me, is that you can clearly infer from this that billionaires consider themselves a different race.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    So being rich is a new race?

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Just give all your money away and you won’t be a target of the slur.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Anyhow ... stiff shit. Pay your fucking taxes, you hoarding bastards.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)
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    Luigi has entered the chat

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    It's afraid.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Some slurs are worth speaking. "Beat the rich!", "Ax the rich!", and "Luigi time!" are wonderfully horrible things to say.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Fuck off no it's not

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    "Tax or axe, your choice."

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  • I was hurt by a racism in my worst place: my money.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    the same people think pedophelia is the same as being part of lgtbq+ crowd.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Wait till he hears what I want to do to the rich. He'll wish we were just taxing them.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    "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"

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    The rich can always get rid of their money and then they will be like everyone else. They don't have to be wealthy.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Wait until he hears about "Eat the Rich."

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    damn right. now pay your fuken share, jackass.

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    good to know

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Its true, I do hate the rich, I want to see every last cent taken from them and given to the needy.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    OK, Boomer.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    He's not wrong. I hate that SOB.

    edit: lmao OP didn't get the joke. I hate the rich landlord asshole, not Mamdani.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The only minority it's ethical to discriminate against

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Fuck his cracker ass....

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    This billiremoved looks like he'd make great chicken feed.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    There's something poetic about the fact that this guy looks like lex luthor.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Doctor's 'pull it out by its head' slogan is 'just as hateful' as racial slurs, New York tick says

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    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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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    Boo fucking hoo. The rich will kill us all.

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