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Fuck politico though, spokespeople for genocide.
How about, "murder that stale cracker?" Does that evoke sympathy in his tiny heart?
He might change his tune when he realizes the alternative is guillotines….
I am up for a hate crime
Would he prefer "burn out the rich"?
Roth on Tuesday stressed the significant contributions of the city’s wealthiest residents to its tax base and said these members of the so-called one-percent are “not enemies” and are “at the top of the great American economic pyramid for a reason.”
There it is. The "we're better than you and deserve more" conceit.
That reason: they are so pathologically greedy that they grubbed up way more money than anyone could need and more than anyone else around.
And that grubbing explicitly is stealing from the people who actually create the money, the workers.
If all it took to be rich was pathological greed, there would actually be even more billionaires.
It's pathological greed and generational wealth.
Don’t forget the theft. Workers create value that capitalists steal. Profit is stolen wages.
Interesting how they're there for being stains on humanity, but they think they're special.
Some of them were born this way I suppose lol. They are a self-selected group of greedy people. There has never been an easier group to vilify, because they are literally villains, hoarding resources that others desperately need
Imagine thinking you're better than others because you're good at amassing wealth.
Everywhere around you people are suffering but because of your innate superiority you are not only not suffering, you have far more than you could ever hope to need, and you cling to it white-knuckled like it's going to stand up and walk away.
Congratulations, you are the smelliest sphincter.
The interesting thing is that the media trained us to admire these people, and listen with bated breath to their advice. When in fact they are the last people we should ask for any kind of moral guidance. Their greed has made literally every major societal issue worse. Fortunately, I think that illusion is dissolving, and more and more it's a majority opinion that the rich are too rich and it needs to stop. Lots of disagreement on how to stop it, unfortunately
They are all psychopaths.
He really won't like what people replace 'tax' with if they're not allowed to say "tax the rich."
"Ax the rich".
and my ax (to kill rich people with)
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Us: You have way too much money, we should share it more equitably so people don’t starve and stuff.
Them: You have done me a racism.
But what If they need it to buy something? Like a small country?
Wow. He has a real god complex thinking he should be "praised and thanked." Next he'll be mandating that his name should not be used in vain.
🍽️ motherfucker.
Fuckin’ compost the rich. Can’t eat ‘em, might as well use ‘em to grow food. Grind ‘em up and let ‘em rot.
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Haha wow he really tried to throw some antisemitism in there too.
“I must say that I consider the phrase tax the rich — [..] to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs, and even the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’” Roth said.
I think you get a good peek into the psyche of powerful people when they use inappropriate terms from marginalized communities as a shield against just actions or comments made against them. It implies they see those genuine complaints from minorities as something merely performative - a tool for sympathy, a shield from criticism. It reveals narcissism and a lack of empathy.
From the river to the sea is not antisemitic. In the Palestine before 1947 Jews, Christians and Muslims all lived side by side as neighbors, and none of them had spwcial rights or was threatened.
What that sentence does mean though, is that there would be no jewish apartheid ethnostate that is actively stealing land left and right, and starting wars with people they see as inferior.
Oh I know, that's just the card he's trying to play (the same card Israel uses regularly, 'any support of Palestine = antisemitism', 'any criticism of Israel = antisemitism').
Appreciate your comment though.
Ah, I misunderstood your comment then, it's true that Israelis try to play that card (quite successfully so).
I'd recommend putting the fake "antisemitism" (because not all anti Zionism is antisemitic) in quotes, to make it more clear.
Israelis are not a marginalized community for the record despite their victim playing, but I take your point.
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Well, then you’ll like this even less:
eat the rich
The taxes just went 5% higher
100% taxes on any billionaire that complains about taxes.
Wealthy people hoard wealth to the detriment of the rest of society causing poverty, crime, death, and destruction. Billionaires shouldn't exist, taxing is only 1 option.
How is this "slammed" and not "whined at"?
He's got more money than the average person, but he's only got 3/5 their value.
I can hardly wait for the guillotines to get sharpened up
...I suspect it will come as a surprise to many of the lizard people that they bleed just like us plebes
Except there is waaaaay more of us, and we have had enough of their baby eating and child raping
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the financially obese are not a protected class de jure
Compost the rich*
I wouldn't recommend eating them - you'd probably catch something nasty. Grinding them up and feeding them to worms is far more appropriate!
LOP
lol
Statements like this from people like him just tell me that they are scared.
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