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Originally Posted By u/Particular_Log_3594 At 2025-04-04 12:40:45 PM | Source

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Picked this up in another post if anyone knows the original creator please tag them!

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Originally Posted By u/Top_Struggle_3312 At 2025-04-04 08:24:01 AM | Source

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And stay peaceful! ✌️

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Originally Posted By u/azimuth79b At 2025-04-04 10:42:15 AM | Source

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Republicans are borrowing 5 trillion dollars and signing your name on the loan.

They are borrowing to enrich themselves and using your future as collateral.

There is an old wife's tale that if given enough food a horse will keep eating until it kills itself.

It is not true, seems animals are smarter than people, or in this case Republican members of congress.

If you haven't been paying attention, congress is about to pass the House tax bill. In short, it calls for 4 1/2 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy, the uber wealthy, and the already obscenely wealthy.

4 1/2 trillion equates to four thousand five hundred billion dollars, or four and a half million, million dollars.

And where is all this money coming from. you ask? I'll tell you; the House tax bill also calls for raising the debt limit by 5 trillion dollars. In other words, we will borrow the money to pay for tax relief for the rich.

Republican greed knows no bounds. They will borrow and borrow. and like the mythical horse, swill until it kills them and our economy. During his last administration Trump caused the national debt to skyrocket 33% and now will increase it another 5 % trillion dollars!

You know who will pay off this enormous debt? No one. There will be no country, and no economy left once these money hungry gluttons leave the trough.

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Originally Posted By u/PrincipleTemporary65 At 2025-04-04 07:58:10 AM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/miked_mv At 2025-04-04 06:42:22 AM | Source

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Inspired and based off of the artwork by Kent R. Kroeger

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Originally Posted By u/ssam43 At 2025-04-03 09:38:46 PM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/Healthy_Block3036 At 2025-04-03 10:36:13 PM | Source

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For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world

For imposing taxes on us without our consent

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries

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Originally Posted By u/earlyviolet At 2025-04-03 05:13:21 PM | Source

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Trans people are the canary in the coalmine.

If you think that sacrificing our most vulnerable members of society is worth it for this movement to be successful, then we have already lost.
That line of thinking is the very reason why we are in this mess in the first place.

You may as well be in favor of allowing immigrants to be deported to El Salvador if you're already buckling over the possibility of including trans people's rights in this movement.

If you're considering ceding this ground to fascists, your morality is fickle and needs to be strengthened.

Trans rights are the first of a line of dominoes: once one falls, the rest follow suit.

First, they'll take away the rights of trans people.
Then it will be gay people.
Then it will be anyone not white.
Then it will be women.
Then it will be anyone not Christian (enough).

This is not the first time it's happened. Trans people were among the first to be sent to the concentration camps; because most of society didn't care if they died. They were firmly placed in the 'undesirable' category by the majority of Germans. They didn't even blink.

But the Nazis didn't stop with trans people, and they won't stop with them this time.

Project 2025 was written by the Heritage Foundation and advocates (on page 4) for making pornography illegal, and that those who create it should be punished with imprisonment.
They also specify that anything related to the LGBTQ+ community will be legally considered as 'pornography'. Teachers who teach about LGBTQ+ subjects will be handed prison sentences, as will authors or creators of any media that includes LGBTQ+ topics.

Teachers who teach subjects related to LGBTQ+ issues will be considered 'child sex abusers'. They also don't define what counts as child sex abuse, meaning that the law could be loosely interpreted to the point where a trans person simply being AROUND a child could be considered sex abuse (some conservatives already act like a gay couple holding hands is 'indecent' around children, so this isn't hard to fathom).

Project 2025 also aims to remove the Louisiana v. Kennedy ruling, which makes it illegal to use the death penalty for a crime in which the victim didn't die. They plan on overturning it specifically for these cases.

This creates a pipeline that allows them to legally execute queer people, and anyone supportive of queer people.

Are you okay with your child's teacher possibly facing the death penalty for teaching LGBTQ+ topics?

Are you okay with your gay relative facing the death penalty for being around their own child?

If the answer is no, then you need to start standing up for trans people, because they are the first domino to fall.

This is a call to stay firm in our values and not water them down for fascists.

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Originally Posted By u/Mr_Gallows_ At 2025-04-03 06:28:52 PM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/Difficult_Strain3456 At 2025-04-03 02:29:47 PM | Source

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Here's and idea: if your cost of goods has been increasing or is set to increase due to Trump's tariffs, instead of rolling that cost increase into your total to your customers, add it as a separate line item on your invoice and title it "Trump Tariffs" or something similar.

Trump loves getting credit for everything, we should give it to him each and every time we deliver a price increase to customers so they know who to thank.

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Originally Posted By u/whisperpickler At 2025-04-03 09:49:58 AM | Source

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Tesla (TSLA) Ownership

Elon Musk may be (allegedly) stepping back from DOGE, but the damage has been done. As the largest individual donor in the 2024 election cycle, Musk contributed $291 million to support Trump and Republican candidates. And he's not stopping—in just the first few months of 2025, his PACs poured over $6.2 million into Wisconsin's Supreme Court race.

For those of us whose interaction with the stock market is limited to our 401(k)s and IRAs, you’ve likely heard advice from people like Warren Buffett to invest in low-cost S&P 500 index funds, such as exchange-traded and mutual funds.

These funds are transparent about their holdings, so I recently reviewed the allocation percentages. What I found gave me pause. 

For every $1,000 invested in an S&P 500 fund, $15-20 automatically goes to Tesla.

I'm sure we could debate the ethics of many companies in the index, but Tesla stands apart—its CEO has personally spent hundreds of millions to influence our government and elections in unprecedented ways.

My retirement savings, meant to secure my future, would first support another's political ambitions. In following sound financial advice, I would betray my own principles. 

Everyone wants a well-funded retirement. No one wants to fund the richest man in the world.

This project grew from conversations with people in my community, including my parents who are approaching retirement. We're everyday Americans with diverse political views, yet we found agreement on this particular issue. We're not political operatives—we're just regular people concerned about our futures.

There are three companies that manage millions of ordinary people’s capital, channeled through mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, often via default retirement-plan options. 

• Vanguard
• BlackRock
• State Street Corporation

These three are among the world’s largest asset managers, and play a significant role in shaping global finances.They control a combined 12.57% of Tesla stock.

Every dollar invested in Tesla—whether through direct stock purchases or bundled in mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs)—helps to sustain Tesla’s stock price, indirectly enriching Musk. As Tesla’s largest shareholder, Musk leverages his stock holdings to access vast sums of cash without selling shares, using a strategy common among billionaires: securities-based lending.

We may have signed up to invest in the stock market in order to retire, but none of us signed up to fund Musk's political ambitions.

We're done being silent shareholders. Our retirement savings shouldn't be used to finance the economic tyranny of billionaires. We need an S&P 500 fund that excludes Tesla.

We can't create these funds on our own, but if enough of us speak up, these financial institutions will have to listen. They respond to demand—that's capitalism, right?

If you're with us, here's what we can do:

• Email asset managers here.
• Submit a request via asset managers’ customer portals here.
• Call asset managers and brokerage companies here.

We've pulled together resources at https://divestfromtesla.com/

Connect with others who feel the same way: 

Instagram: u/divestfromtesla 

BlueSky: u/divestfromtesla.bsky.social

Email: [email protected] 

This is about having a say in how our money is used. We believe we deserve that choice. If you feel the same, we’d love to hear from you.

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Originally Posted By u/Beneficial_Pattern_5 At 2025-04-03 09:34:02 AM | Source

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