We should probably stop calling them a class and just say billionaires. Calling them a class gives them validation. They are just greedy shitty people
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I think i disagree. 'Bilionaires' makes it seem seem like a nebulous group of individuals, like
'oh just happens to have a ton of money, you can't hold that against them without evaluating their actions as an individual'
The problem is that they are a class, or rather that the class exists as a class and that they are use their power, act as and are catered to, as a class.
If there were 100 individuals around the word who just happened to have assets valuing 1,000,000,000$ or more, even if they owned shitty companies companies and were all assholes, that would be one thing.
Assuming they not associate with each other, conspire together to warp society and governments to their shared wills etc, it would be a far different world.
If they were seen as just rare individuals, governments would not bend to their whims; one billionaire threatens to offshore his buisness unless he gets favorable laws, to ignore taxes etc, the country threatens to nationalism his buisness, or just locks his ass up. I one guy is found to be bribing one or countless politicians, thats a treasonous scandal.
When a couple dozen are making these threats in lockstep, they are holding the country's economy hostage. And when between them they are bribing all the politicians, that becomes the staus quo.
its when they act as a class that its a real problem.
I like the Epstein class because it's not just billionaires that are the problem, it's all the people who break or circumvent the law to enrich themselves or gain power.
"Here we go again, same old shit again."
Those aren't exclusionary statements
Yes. The pedodent is supported by the billionaire class and in turn funnels even more taxpayer dollars to then and his own family. The billionaires in turn help manufacture of amplify the conflicts he feeds upon.
Trump is a symptom of the wider rot that the establishment Democrats are a part of
Bullshit, he is literally part of the disease.
Bullshit, without the disease he could never, ever have taken office. No functioning Republic would allow it
Just to be clear: symptoms are part of a disease.
Trump is a symptom and also part of the disease. Is there more to the disease than just trump? yes. There are kind of a lot of parts of this disease and they include effectively all of the current Cabinet, House, Senate and Judiciary. Some of those symptoms are democratic and, while I consider many of these democrats to be personally accountable for the issues we face, I also hold that the system is the real problem.
The existing system is the disease and, while we made it over 200 years, I think about the phrase 'a more perfect union' in that a perfect union is a goal, but was not a guarantee and bad actors will find loopholes and vulnerabilities.
We tried to get rid of kings; and did for a time, but eventually replaced them with technocrats.
There's only a handful of them, and a LOT of us. Let's aim for the next more perfect union and ditch these modern kings.
But it could be more honest. Dems suck because they're all bark and part of the problem themselves. Pelosi built a fortune on insider trading, but they keep acting like they're innocent and "helping" the avg citizen. They sure as hell not with posts like this.
i find it funny that there are more balanced takes on politics here then in any of the canada political pages on here
The biggest tour de force of the century so far is the billionaires who built/bought the social media’s and diverted the attention from the class war (member 2008?) to an ideology war.
They won their bet
The dummies followed and even fought for them
He is a symptom of the disease, and both must be dealt with as such.
The burnings will continue untill we get representation that actually aligns with the will of the people.
To be clear, i won't be me burning, nor anyone on this site; just the regular Joe who has been pushed too far. We don't even have to encourage it. The more our leaders don't listen and ultra rich greed continues the more they will happen. It is the same as: the less it rains (justice) the dryer and more flammable the ground will get. Not a threat, but the nature of humanity and society.
Nothing will improve until the US moves away from the two party system. It's an inherently flawed system, because it leaves no room for nuance. You either have to vote for the red guys or the blue guys and if both the red guys and the blue guys are crap then you have to vote for the least worst option, which is often hard to identify.
There's nothing written down that actually requires people to be the representative of one party or another, it's just how things have worked out.
The US also needs to seriously get a grip on religion in politics, it can be there up to a point but there has to be a limit. In any other western country a politician stating that a war is just and required entirely on the basis of religion alone would rightfully get them sectioned.
No third party has risen up high enough to compete. You are right, but no third option has made its way to the forefront. As for religion and politics, that will be extreamly difficult untill the aforementioned 3rd party comes to being. And even then, the cults of America will make it where life is hard if you are not part of thier groups. Even if we make it illigal to do so: see civil rights movement in the 60's.
No third option has been allowed to rise. The Rs and Ds have rigged the system to keep out third parties.
Majority take all voting needs to go, it doesn't allow nuanced representation either.
The same old history. Some people infiltrate and manipulate the lefties to not vote, until they will lose their power of voting forever.
What we need is people who actually write up policy proposals. It doesn't matter whether you have a senate majority, you need to write the policy proposals now. What actually changes things is societal pressure, and you only build that up by showing that another way is possible, which you show by writing down how exactly you would run an alternative society. For which you have to write down policy proposals.
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Reminds me of this:
Trump is the worst president in American history.
"Yeah people with no power, how did you let them be that way?"
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