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Thank you Tim Apple, who by the way is looking a little pudgy (sopuli.xyz)
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Just kinda scratching my head that one of the richest CEOs in the world went to the White House yesterday to deliver the president a literal piece of gold in exchange for an exemption to the president's tariffs and did it on live TV.
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[–] 102 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

    Exactly, but we need a plan that reaches the right wing folk and a reason for people to back it , here it is.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Tax wealth not work is a great way to pitch it to people as well. It doesn't matter if your working 30,40,50,60+ hour weeks, whether you make 10,20,30,50,100,200 dollars an hour. That's not what they are pitching to increase taxes on. They want to cut taxes on workers.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    All the media is owned by wealth, and it will be spun and sold to the masses as a Bad Thing. And as we we have seen, the majority of people are idiots and lap that shit up.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I think a lot of it is that people don't view things as finite, they for some reason think every dollar they make is a new dollar that came from nowhere and when they spend it, it goes no where. It's easier to not look at the big picture of where the money flows, and just tunnel vision what is happening directly to themselves and hope someone else fixes things because they don't have time/money to address anything.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh, it won't improve then either. The mega rich will stand in a mountain of the dead before they'll give up even a fraction of their wealth, and they'll lash out at anything that they "fear".

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What is this cringe ass larp?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    What LARP. Plenty of people are all about "the great class Revolution" but few are actually winning to risk the meat grinder it would actually take. It's also why they're banking big time on AI and robotics. Nobody to talk back or question if ordered to gun down a street full of "enemies"

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