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[–] 105 points 1 year ago

Thank you to Howard G. Buffett!

I am glad that Howard Buffett has a sober understanding of how the russians operate. They will not engage in good faith unless you demonstrate that you are able and willing to fuck them up.

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

    I have mixed feelings about this headline. On the one hand, it's good to see this much money going to a good cause. On the other hand, I firmly oppose the ability of any one person to control this much money.

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

    Compare this one guy's donation to a good cause against all the other billionaires donating money to the Heritage Foundation, MAGA, etc

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Billionaires "donating" to foreign countries sounds like bribes for rare earth minerals.

    No billionaire is altruistic. Bill Gates is the best example.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Not the OC but the problem I have is in just one private citizen's ability to influence so much military power. While historically this isn't new and in this case it does overall good, I think that this kind of thing is a slippery slope that eventually could lead to billionaires funding wars to manipulate market elements for profit.

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    [–] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sounds like those motherfuckers need to pay some taxes, clearly.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (24 children)

    Yep. A single billionaire funding a war effort is abhorrent.

    This one happens to be on the right side, but there's absolutely no guarantee that his will be the case for any of these fucking psychopaths.who horde wealth. They all need to go.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Counterpoint - under the current administration, paying taxes might help Russia more

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

    Except he's not funding a war, he's funding the defense of a nation fighting for freedom and its right to exist.

    Ukraine didn't get in this war as a pissing match with Russia. It was wrongly attacked and is a democracy defending itself. It's had its children kidnapped and its civilians targeted. It will cease to exist if it loses. We don't have a greedy capitalist funding an unjust war for profit as you're trying to suggest. Helping Ukraine is the right thing to do. Refusing to help them will simply result in Europe fighting a better-resourced Russia later.

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

    So if Warren wants to do the morally correct thing why doesn't he hire assassins to kill the bad billionaires?

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    If the wealthy's heads end up in baskets, the Buffets won't be among them.

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