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[–] Rooskie91 179 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Wait till he hears how necessary it is for life to get harder for billionaires.

[–] Breve@pawb.social 122 points 6 days ago (3 children)

That's why they're trying to take power. Billionaires would rather destroy the world and drive all life to extinction than to give up their private jets and yachts.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 39 points 6 days ago (2 children)

just wait till they outlaw protests and impose curfews

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

That's so 2020. Oh, that was under trump rule. Just a small sample of what's to come if he gets into office again.

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[–] Frittiert@feddit.org 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The French found a solution some time ago, maybe history really repeats.

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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

Wouldn't be the first civilization that disappeared because the elite doesn't want to compromise and give up status. It's a constant in history.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The worst part is--it's really not. These guys could all stay millionaires and we could still solve our system's worst distribution issues. Their biggest hardship could be dealing with not being The Guy With The Biggest Number when they go to their rich guy parties.

Personally I'm in favor of making them destitute and/or imprisoning them, but going that far really isn't strictly necessary.

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Harder - lol. He'll have to settle for two 180 foot yachts instead of three.

[–] Mikrochip@feddit.org 66 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make"

Why do we only seem to get the bad outlandish things from books and movies? :/

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[–] Godort@lemm.ee 146 points 6 days ago (5 children)

necessary for what?

necessary for what, motherfucker?

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 53 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Your comment has the same energy as "states' rights to do what?", and I'm here for it.

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If I wasn't at work I'd edit the goose meme to match.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago

For a complete fascist takeover.

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 54 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That graph is interesting. When was Reagan president again...?

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago

When was Reagan president again…?

Nailed it.

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[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 41 points 5 days ago

Necessary for Elon and trump to evade prison sentences.

These shitbags are trading the health of the majority to evade repercussions for their crimes (of which there are many).

Drone strike please.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 59 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Shut up, shut up, shut up please just shtfu already elon. How are people like him and bezos controlling the world? I swear we celebrate and praise mediocre morons in the US.

As a nation we have lost 30 years of progress because we give the loudest most idiotic people to ever live a platform to spew their collective nonsense. Take me back to 2010 where the internet was still fun and not just some massive propaganda machine for the uber wealthy and political nut jobs

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

How are people like him and bezos controlling the world?

Capitalism

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But without capitalism we wouldn't have (insert something that has nothing to do with capitalism but that I completely attribute to it). And that would mean no trade.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My ancestors wouldnt have pushed at least one Southern plantation owner to suicide.

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[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

The United States has always been the best place for the mediocre white man.

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[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 70 points 6 days ago

The fucking gall this billionaire POS has to utter the phrase "live within our means."

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago (7 children)

There is no middle class. There are workers and owners. If you own real estate and stonks you are still a worker unless you can live off of just investments. This is designed to corrupt and neuter you. You have enough skin in the game of the owners to not want to oppose them, but not enough to actually be them. Unless you hope to retire, at which point you make the transition from working class to owning class, but only at the end of your life, if you even make it that far, and often owning very little.

[–] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago

This is why Worker and Consumer Cooperatives are so vital.

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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 53 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Add this to the news that Mike Johnson said they will end Obamacare and I can't believe anyone would vote for Trump. He's going to raise your costs, reduce government services, kill healthcare as we know it, the list goes on and on.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They literally want to end government. Aka, services for anyone who isn't wealthy.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The only government service they want is the police, and it to be funded by civil forfeiture.

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[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 32 points 6 days ago

Fascist cunt

[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago (3 children)

🗡️🫨

... there's no guillotine emojis yet

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

What even is that face emoji doing?

I like how you improvised.

Edit: 🗡️🫠. I wanted to try and I like this.

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[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So where are the "Republicans are good for the economy" voters now?

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Anyone that actually cares about the economy would see that every time the republicans get in they fuck it, and every time the democrats get in they fix it.

But they don't care about reality, only their feelings

[–] Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 6 days ago

“Some of you may die, but that is a risk I am willing to make”

When can we feed Elon to a dragon?

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 days ago

Trump is better at this than Musk...

It will be a beautiful necessary. Everyone will love the carnage. We will destroy America bigly. Like never before. The radical left democrats will hate it, but it will be glorious. Trust me.

[–] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Electively suffering hardship? Billionaires first, set a good example for the rest of us, and the hardship can trickle down.

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I wonder if when he says "necessary" he's referring to some longtermism weird BS.

I mean, he's definitely referring to some weird BS. But I wonder whether specifically it's longtermism BS.

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

I read recently "On Freedom" by Timothy Snyder and he mentions that. Billionaires are sucking or wealth and when we suffer, we are told that this is temporary and toward a greater good (which never comes).

Sadly it is successful and a lot of Americans believe that.

It opened my eyes seeing how we are set up to fight each other (blaming minorities) while oligarchs are making our lives more miserable by hoarding country's wealth.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

He is, though he's wrong about Trump's plans being anything beneficial in the long term. But even what he's saying about any part of it being harmful is a contradiction of Trump's claims about the economy

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 24 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Bro we couldn't even get people to wear masks and get free tests and vaccines without triggering white outrage, how you think actual financial hardship is going to go over with these people?

He'll immediately blame Biden for all the suffering he causes.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They'll scream for blood, but it won't be the blood of billionaires.

They own the largest communication networks across the globe, both traditional and digital. They have access to the most cutting edge AI technology that's fast becoming indistinguishable from reality. They're cooperating with the man in charge of the most elaborate troll farm ever created.

They'll use that power to keep breeding angry, violent reactionaries who blame minorities and swallow whatever their cult leader tells them to. But that will be rookie shit a decade from now. Forget social media sock puppets, our entire chain of knowledge is about to be undermined. Bullshit, agenda pushing academic papers will be published, filled with bullshit, agenda pushing statistics, fawned over by bullshit, agenda pushing media and cited in bullshit, agenda pushing books. It will spew out at a rate far faster than anyone can possibly debunk and even if they try, they're indistinguishable from the AI-powered, sock puppet "experts" they're arguing with.

Laws, regulations and life-altering punishments are the only way to stop them so they're working hard to ensure that never happens.

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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Bitch, we're already going through hardship. How much more hardship do we need to go through just so you can keep your power trip going?

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[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 days ago (5 children)

What's up with upper class trying to destroy middle class all the time? Are middle class a threat to them? Has to be, otherwise this wouldn't matter.

Make things hard for billionaires and spread their wealth amongst the lower class to start evening shit out. Who tf needs almost a trillion unspendable dollars?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 days ago (8 children)

There's no such thing as the middle class. You either own means of production, you sell your labour to those who do, or you belong to the criminal class that doesn't contribute to the growth of capital. The middle class is a fairy tale capitalists tell us to keep us in the labour class instead of the far more sensible criminal class.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

its only "necessary" so him and his ilk can continue to bleed the nation dry

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