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[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 206 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, specifically: The billionaires class hired Trump to do this. They may have gotten more than they bargained for, or they may not care since it’s not yet affecting most of them.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Some of them are actively working with Trump towards a future where prison labor in their factories fuels their wealth in perpetuity. It is as simple as incarceration of millions of slave laborers and becoming a government contractor.

Footage of private prison executives celebrating the Trump reelection leaked when it happened. Some immigration camps are already creating labor.

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 87 points 6 days ago (4 children)
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (17 children)

Somehow this is the most ignored fact ever known, for internet people. No, you just simply cannot acknowledge two compatible facts. One is worthless garbage (your fact) while the other is profound wisdom (my fact). For example, here, somehow Donald Trump being a billionaire with the largest amount of power on earth is lost on this person, basically because it helps them burn the Democrats. Really kind of an idiotic response if you ask me. A billionaire acting the most like a billionaire is the "wrong" culprit here. And they think they're such a big brain for this.

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[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Those aren't exclusionary statements

[–] phx@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] paul@lemmy.org 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Trump is a symptom of the wider rot that the establishment Democrats are a part of

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[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 49 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's not "billionaire class". It's owning class.

It ain't that they have a lot of money, it's how they came to acquire that money as an effect of the system of ownership we currently live under incentivising rampant exploitative practices as the most efficient methods of personal enrichment.

Billionaires are just the best at being exploitative; they aren't the only ones though.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 26 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Most billionaires get their money by exploiting loopholes in the government. For example, they pay no taxes, yet the government will still prosecute people who kill them.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 6 days ago

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

Upton Sinclair, 1934

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 21 points 6 days ago

Reminds me of this:

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Jesus fuck. It can literally be both, especially with this fatted calf.

Also in terms of affordability of daily good and gas, it literally, majority because of Trump, the billionaire grifter, and his tariffs and his stupid thinking he's Jesus and started a War with Iran and the Republicans refusing to rein him in and the Democrats voting with them.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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.

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

The fact that Democrats don’t have a Project 2027 or Project 2029 runbook proves they don’t know what they’re doing.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 6 days ago (9 children)

The fact that Democrats don’t have a Project 2027 or Project 2028 runbook proves that they're not even trying.

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[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 20 points 6 days ago (43 children)

It's because Republicans and neoliberal democrats (the majority of them) take their marching orders from the billionaire class.

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[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 6 days ago (31 children)

What neo-liberals and their apologizing masses don't understand is we don't see a difference anymore. They're both conservative parties that only care about their payout ultimately. Advancing billionaire objectives and ignoring us. I really wish they'd understand and stop trying to fucking argue against this.

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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

This was a joke, right? Good one

Yeah, it's Trump, everything will be fine when he dies!

Trump could never have been elected without you hacks, your corruption made him possible. He could never be in any position of authority without decades of unbridled rot to pave the way... if he's the monster, you're the Dr. Frankenstein who created him.

Good job

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Donald Trump is literally everything wrong with The United States of America distilled down to a person and squeezed into an ill fitting suit. All the self obsession, anti-intelectualism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, paedophilia, war mongering, greed, hate, and cruelty rolled into the ugliest person you'll ever know. Did I miss anything?

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At LEAST blame Republicans, not Trump.

That Democrats waste time pointing the finger at Trump means Republicans get to reset after this like they aren't fully fucking complicit and responsible for promoting Trump to power. And yes, those pro-Israel Dem representatives deserve a portion of blame as well.

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[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

trump is the champion of the billionaire class.

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Never argue with someone whose job depends on not being convinced.

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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

"Learned", lol, yeah that's what the problem is. They're just so stupid. So unbelievably stupid. These people with billions of dollars of think tank research and social data, these people who climbed into power, they just aren't realizing this obvious fact that somehow every non-politician around me has understood since they were 15 years old. They haven't "learned".

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 13 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Hell yeah. Fuck their weaponized ignorance. Pretending they don't know just absolves them of guilt.

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

I mean, they're also right that Trump is making it worse. Hes making it acutely terrible in fact.

If it were some competent neolib at the helm instead of a retarded fascist we'd only be slightly miserable instead of suicidally miserable.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 days ago (32 children)

Dems know exactly how they could get a massive landslide in the midterms, and are choosing not to do it.

[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 days ago (6 children)

If they win by too much they woukd lose all their excuse to work against the people.

It would ruin them.

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[–] Shameless@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

Both parties are the billionaire class 🤣

There is no truly left party with any type of power in the US.

[–] Lagviper@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[–] m750@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Every time.

Neo libs are similarly to blame, not as bad as gqp, but not fixing it either...

[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

The same old history. Some people infiltrate and manipulate the lefties to not vote, until they will lose their power of voting forever.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

TBF, Trump is glazing the billionaire class about as much as he's glazing Putin and Netanyahu.

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[–] Teppa@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

They're billionaires because of monetary policy, Elon Musk and Tesla wouldnt be worth so much if inflation didnt reward risky assets and provide an unlimited runway to profitability. We bid up asset prices until prices rise 2% a year; prices that exclude assets like housing, subjective hedonic downward adjustments of goods prices, and substitutions/shrinkflation.

Blame the rich if you want, I blame the unelected central bank thats debasing your paycheck with 7% annual money supply growth, QE, and bailouts. If the money supply didnt grow every year you wouldnt need to beg your boss for a cost of living adjustment that doesnt match reality. Our parents ate free range grass fed meat, we eat corn fed factory farm troglodytes, and our children will eat highly processed imitation meat slop, and the CPI will mark no difference between the three.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

"Here we go again, same old shit again."

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's both? He does claim to be a billionaire.

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