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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 83 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Damnit Zohran... I can only get sooo hard...

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 58 points 22 hours ago (15 children)

Before the oligarchs say this is "violence".

This can be done peacefully. Just enact a law that taxes everything above like 999 million (or a fewer amount, to be debated on), and if you don't comply, that's tax evasion and you go to jail. Complelete peaceful (other than the tax-person we'd have to send to arrest the rich for non-complance), comply and everyone is happy.

Voila, no more billionaires, and that wealth redistributed will let everyone become a millionaire. Everyone is happy, maybe the 1% cries that they now have a few less yachts and mansions, but like, they can still enjoy that one house, same as everyone else would also have.

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 27 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

You know what? I don't want it peaceful. They've stomped on people there entire lives, forced others to rely on social programs, dig through trash, and work to the bone.

I want a comeuppance, I want blood, and I want it to be that of every fucking billionaires' head rolling off the guillotine

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[–] Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 276 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He’s absolutely right. Billionaires should not exist.

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 209 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager who has backed President Donald Trump in the past, on Thursday pledged to use his money to bankroll a challenger to Mamdani in the general election.

Case in point.

[–] MyRobotShitsBolts@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (5 children)

And how did he get those billions? How many peoples necks did he have to step on to climb his way up. It's not so much what you do with your billions, it's how you got them that makes you evil. The only exception to this is probably Bezos ex wife, maybe.

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Based as fuck. The fact that the establishment players disagree is extremely telling.

[–] PoopSpiderman@lemmy.world 219 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Nobody asked me, but I agree with him.

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 156 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 80 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mamdani added in his response: “I have already had to start to get used to, get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I’m from, who I am, ultimately, because he wants to distract from what I’m fighting for, and I’m fighting for the very working people that he ran a campaign to empower, that he has since then betrayed.”

Goddamn, this reads like a response that came from a real socialist playbook. Don't take the bait on the culture war bullshit, say it's distraction from helping workers. Wow.

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[–] Prox@lemmy.world 118 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Wholly agreed. There are no ethical billionaires. Fight me.

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[–] Caesium@lemmy.world 34 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

One of my favorite hypotheticals is that once someone gets to a billion money they get a trophy that says "I won capitalism" and anything over the limit goes to folk who need it.

Knowing greed, people would certainly find ways around it, but a gal can dream

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago

you could make money depreciate over time so it couldn't be hoarded.

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