| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> This is why the guillotine will either be taxes or blades There is legitimate debate around whether the French aristocracy came out of the Revolution richer than they were before. > They do, however fear retribution They don’t. They haven’t been targeted. Luigi potted a middle manager with a glorified title. The billionaire who owns the group is fine. We need to raise taxes. We need new tax brackets. But pretending violence is a check on a globalized rich is just self-congratulatory fantasy. Worst case, they lose billions when they flee. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | 3ffaa an hour ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
"They don’t." When are you gonna stop acting like you are an authority on all things? ELon has said many times he fears being taken out in a public setting, therefore he does not present himself in public. If the world's wealthiest man says this, he is far more indicative of the ultra-wealth class than you. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | bubblegumcrisis 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I don't know about this. Pre-Trump I would have agreed with you. Post-Trump. The mask is off, and they are evil. How many billionaires are there? I don't think we'd miss them if they were gone. And it goes farther than this actually. Should we have publicly executed the cigarette CEOs, and those CEOs of the drug companies who knowingly destroyed so many lives with opiates? What about the company CEOs who poison water. Before Trump I would have said, "no." But now, "yes." They deserved it, and by not sufficiently punishing them for their crimes against humanity we sent a message to the likes of Facebook and OpenAI and the new batch of psychopaths, that there are no real consequences for their actions, no matter how base they are. If Trump and his family does not sit in jail after he leaves office, if the democrats do not exact retribution for all he and his ilk have done, I think there will be rioting against both sides. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. I actually hope I'm wrong. But I think I'm right. And even though this post will be down-voted for referencing violence as leverage, I think these ideas are mainstream now. | |||||||||||||||||
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