Once some people actually considered this man smart, but in reality he is a one trick pony

You fool! Comrade Pony has many tricks!

begins riffling through desk looking for a gun.

Agree and upvoted, but I just wanted to pedantically brag about the mnemonic I learned today:

Disinformation = Dishonest, Deceptive

Misinformation = didn't have a good one for this...

Unless the money is being paid to other nations, they are just doing what we should all do, nationalize billionaires and pay for things. It liquifies the economy.

his propaganda machine is still fully funded, as is funding right wing governments all over the world.

He only seizes the means of production...

with some making large voluntary contributions to the state budget

In the US, we call these campaign contributions.

where do you think the 14point plan came from, its eerily similar to the multipoint plans that putin has given to ukraine and other countries, verbatim.

We were already on trajectory for this if AI worked out the way they wanted it to. Where does the US military budget come from if 90% of the tax base are laid off?

It's not a new grift, dictators do this all the time in order for the wealthy to tow in line.

You can only seize the assets within your country. That means that the assets outside of Putin's reach are still sizable.

That the government might come after his stocks? They already do.

And do what? They are not some united people. They're literally just grifters that will take as much scrap as possible and if Piotr is dead and his money is taken - good maybe there's an opportunity for me to grift more now and I didn't like Piotr anyway.

Again? You have to be communist once before you can be again. Putin and the oligarchs are a continuation of the Stalinist/Leninist power structures. Which claimed they were aspirationally communist. The same way Jeffry Dahlmer was aspirationally a humanist.

Nah, the power structure is just cannibalizing itself to try to preserve itself again. The Russian people will continue to be screwed.

Taxing billionaires is never theft. Nobody in human history has ever created a billion dollars of value, therefore the wealth was stolen from the people to begin with.