Scrolling through the all feed and saw this post and genuinely cannot tell of this is satire or not.

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[–] 96 points 5 months ago (22 children)

First they came for the millionaires and distributed their wealth equally and I said nothing because I wasn't a millionaire.
Then they came for the abled bodies and made public spaces as inclusive as possible and I said nothing because I didn't notice.
Then they came for cis men and abolished the nuclear family and I said nothing because I'm not married so I didn't care.
And when they smashed white supremacy, there was no one left to defend me.

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    [–] 82 points 5 months ago

    No no, I agree we should start with the billionaires or possible trillionaires by time we actually do something.

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  • [–] 65 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Millionaires aren't really the problem, billionaires are.

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  • [–] 38 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    I feel this is not stressed enough.

    The guy owning the local car dealership that has a nice yacht and a holiday appartment in Mallorca is not actually even remotly the same kind of problem like jeff bezos or elon musk.

    Sure, noone needs a yacht, but the irder of magnitude is not even remotely comparable.

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

    Am million dollars isn't yacht money, though. It would take several millions to actually get close.

    1 million isn't even enough for a comfortable retirement these days.

    A "millionaire" doesn't mean much compared to three decades ago.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    Billionaires also aren't the problem. They are the symptom.

    The problem is the system of economics and politics, by extension the various institutions they manifest, that allows individuals to become billionaires through the exploitation of other people's labor via private ownership over the means of production that should rightfully belong to the people through collective ownership.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    Yep. A million dollars is much closer to 0 dollars than it is to a billion dollars. An even bigger problem is the ultra billionaires.

    Aside from that simplistic argument, billionaires are much much more parasitic to society than millionaires are.

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

    Bitch even if we came for the millionaires, that would hardly be the “first” group anyone came for. Y’all been coming for the women, gays, Latinos, atheists, Arabs and trans folk as long as can I can fuckin remember.

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  • [–] 42 points 4 months ago (16 children)

    Millionaires can stay. I'm more angry about the billionaires and the soon to be trillionaires.

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    [–] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    How can you tell that they are a boomer at heart?

    They talk about millionaires as the rich.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago

    Except the "They" who comes for people is the millionaires.

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

    They are serious. If you suggest any constraint to oligarchist/corporatist supremacism, that makes you the nazi. See, first you will ask the arguably deplorable millionaires to pay their fair share, but because you are a nazi, you will then tax the poor middle class jews.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago*

    Well the headline is satire. The sign likely not. It shows how crazy people are that you don't know anymore

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago

    It's real. It was from a protest in Washington State, USA. The legislature was voting on a tax on millionaires.

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

    Pretty sure this is about the millionaires tax in Washington State, the first income tax passed in the state ever. The big argument against it is that it'll set the precedence of an income tax being legal by the state constitution, and then they'll start lowering the minimum income to tax everyone. Oh no, a progressive tax system!

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    [–] 16 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    From the subs pinned post: „As a friendly reminder, this comm is for the satirizing of conservatives only

    Memes, comics, onion-type articles etc making fun of conservatives is what's accepted here

    Serious articles, discussions, information, infographics etc please post to !conservative@sh.itjust.works where the wonderful @SatansMaggotyCumFart@sh.itjust.works tries to moderate actually fair conservative debates

    If you want the conservative space for conservatives to spout their bigotry, Nazism, xenophobia etc etc please see !Conservatives@hilariouschaos.com or the HilariousChaos instance in general, "The Friendlier ExplodingHeads Instance" ™

    I'll also be updating the display name to make it more clear when searching for a comm in the new post screen“

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    [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    She's likely a hundredaire who will one day be a billionaire.

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    [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Oh please, please let's do that. That would legitimately be fantastic. Not just millionaires though, because enough of them could've just worked hard to get there. Once you get to the like hundreds of millions or billions, then those people don't deserve it.

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

    Yeah it's crazy how inflation is like that.

    There are plenty of just regular day-to-day people that are technically millionaires. But like, it's all invested and or it's their retirement account and they're 50 and it has to last them the rest of their life and they aren't globetrotting on a mega yacht.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    And then what? They're coming for your low middle class ass? They already have you! You're drowning in debt with diabetes from the HFCS they refuse to outlaw and the healthcare you can't afford praising a serial rapist that just made gas prices sky rocket by bombing a country so your stupid ass will forget about the evidence that proves he's a habitual sex predator.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 5 months ago

    The post thread can be found here

    https://feddit.org/post/27648940

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  • First they came for the millionaires and I laughed and laughed and laughed

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    That's a waste of perfectly nutritious millionaires.

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