even idiots can be made useful sometimes

tax the rich

I see… and is the fraud in the room with us right now, Elon?

tax the rich.

if they don’t comply, seize their assets.

if citizens can be 'civil asset forfeiture’d for being suspected of a crime, then billionaires can have their accounts seized and lands taken for tax evasion. but how do we make the politicians afraid enough to actually do it?

there’s going to be a significant increase in homeless grandparents

who do you think will be buying up all those homes, all that sweet easy money passive income generating real estate?

a handful of ultra wealthy parasites are looting the country just to add a few zeros to the ends of their bank accounts.

c’mon, just block the community and move on if you’re unhappy about the content. other people having a bit of fun (pointing out the hypocrisy and deeply flawed irrational nature of a reactionary political philosophy) isn’t worth getting upset about. given current circumstances in America, it’s refreshing to see people criticizing authority and those who seek to empower the powerful at the expense of the many.

thank you! you get it.

people with decades of experience responding to communicable illnesses have been getting fired without cause or driven out of government just for some conservative publicity stunt precisely when they’re needed (which it turns out, is actually all the time). even when no diseases are breaking out, they are developing plans and strategies for the next event. we need these experts.

mmm big egg 🥚

but but it’s a secret and um, secrets are bad! trust me bro! bro?

it’s like, no shit the government is corrupt. and no shit, the US squanders taxpayer money abroad on endless proxy wars perpetuated intentionally by international arms suppliers for the benefit of oligarchs and tyrants (elected or otherwise).

but conservatives just hear “Trump mad at Ukraine now” and fall in line like gormless toadies, not understanding that he and Putin are just the latest wave of despotic power brokers bilking the citizenry for personal gain.

the players change, but the game doesn’t. conservatives obsess about which color shirt the guy who robs them is wearing, and ignore cries to stop supporting thieves.

this is anti-THRUG propaganda and I won’t stand for it.

RIP THRUG (76,358 BC - 76, 335)

hope he’s up there in heaven eatin raw guts smiling down on us.

not everything on the internet is for you. even if you’re #not-like-the-other-freethinking-independents, people aren’t required to accept or like what you say. you can either read the room and change how you say stuff, or you can just keep quiet, or you can leave. no one’s making anyone a hostage on discussion boards. we can all walk away anytime we feel like it. it’s called being a grown up in a society. leave or go start your own “this word is okay to say club”. you haven’t been arrested for saying retarded, you were simply kicked out of a chat group. whoopty doo.

agree to disagree.

Lemmy does lean left everywhere else, but it’s all serious af “dystopia is here” stuff.

this community reborn with the amazing effort from @cm0002@lemmy.world has brought some much needed humor and lightheartednes.

subbed!

it’s a myth anyways. Gary Stevenson talks about it. ultra rich people are rich because they own physical assets that society (businesses and individuals) must pay them to rent or use. you don’t have to be a resident of a place to invest in it, you can drop cash into places from anywhere. in other words, where money gets invested is NOT dependent on where the investor lives.

it’s naive to think that a billionaire who leaves the country will just walk away from say, a lucrative oil drilling operation or a supermarket chain or a new skyscraper or a data center… simply because they don’t live there? even if they choose to avoid US opportunities, other investors will come along to snatch it up.

billionaires can change countries and move anywhere in the world, but they can’t take a stadium or an office building or a football team with them. the productive resources (factories, shops, commercial buildings, apartments) that enable wealth generation and contribute to gross productive capacity each quarter, aren’t portable.

the physical resources and tools of production will still be here, the parasites who extract rents from them will not. besides, plutocrats don’t pay any income or wealth taxes, so it’s no net loss whatsoever.

hmm … know who else has a lot of oil… somewhere verrrry close to you… you might even be standing on it.

wait, are you saying that we should nationalize the US oil industry to achieve socialism?

I agree!

federal workers are terrified right now that if they make one wrong step, they’ll be on their asses, with families and mortgages depending on them to be perfect.

this email alone resulted in thousands of unplanned mandatory meetings with supervisors, checking with coworkers, asking PR and internal communications experts, consulting with division directors, on and on up the chain of command.

trust me, they spent way more than 10 minutes, more like hours and hours per employee across the whole govt.

do comic books have 24/7 live updates and endless scrolls designed to exploit addictive behavior?

were dime novels published by an ideologically aligned billionaire class who is working to capture our political processes?

does D&D have an algorithmically generated “for you” page designed to promote rage content?

did teens spend 4+ hours per day staring into their comics or check them anxiously 344 times per day on avg, or look at them while in school, while stopped at intersections, while on the toilet? did they talk to therapists about how they feel overwhelmed by their comics, the comics make them feel suicidal, etc, etc. was the billionaire CEO of the comic industry involved in national policy making and firing of federal workers?

are you saying ‘its all just different flavors of the same thing, just different ways to entertain yourself’?

isn’t who controls the content and the nature of that content extremely important too?

is spending 4 hours/day watching TV reruns of Golden Girls and… spending 4 hours/day locked in a frenzy of algorithmically targeted highly personalized addictive right wing propaganda… the same thing?

are there any even alive still? I assume they didn’t get liberty so they just died (unvaccinated, gasping for air, of COVID, on life support funded by Obamacare).

one of their main goals was getting an “African” out of the White House… it doesn’t appear to have worked.

the other was repealing Obamacare… something Diaper Don couldn’t accomplish even when they had control of three branches…

so many L’s

sad honestly.

“Good Americans Reject Bad Government” and “Who’s in Charge, Putin?” “Cut Taxes Not Deals” 😂😂😂 these protesters must be spinning in their graves lol