M4d_GhoulJan 26, 2023
Dr. Farhana Sultana
Billionaires should not set climate policy.
Billionaires should not set water policy.
Billionaires should not be setting any policy.
Billionaires should not be platformed to give opinion on crises & injustices they helped create & have financial stakes in monopolizing policies on.
Billionaires should not exist.
Jan 23, 2023 at 10:30pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadLewisJan 23, 2023
@farhanasultana Absolutely. They are artificial and only exist because they corrupt, overpower or bully everyone else..which is dressed up as potency and beneficence.
I would take it all off them and jail them for natural life terms.
Show threadcostrikeJan 23, 2023
@farhanasultana Agreed on all points.
Show threadcostrikeJan 23, 2023
@farhanasultana And as I was reading through, I was looking forward to adding the last point, but i was happy to see you took care of it. :)
Show threadJasmineJan 23, 2023
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Show threadSouthern LeftistJan 24, 2023
@MysticaRose @farhanasultana
Damn.
Let's seize the House of Reps until all the fu*kin' repubs resign.
Wait, they're Republicans.
They aren't cognitively evolved enough to resign.
Frick.
Show threadJasmineJan 24, 2023

@south_lib @farhanasultana

With literal enemies of the State in charge of the House, we're well and truly, as you put it, fricked😕

Show threadStevens R MillerJan 24, 2023

@south_lib @MysticaRose @farhanasultana

DIdn't the other team already try to seize the House?

Show threadLawrenceJan 23, 2023
@farhanasultana there shouldn't be billionaires.
Show threadBuffalo RudeJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana @StillIRise1963 Amen.
Show threadOld Man MikeJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana Billionaires should be hobbled, neutered and executed in quick succession.
Show threadSouthern LeftistJan 24, 2023
@oldmanmike @farhanasultana
Sure, I hate billionares but-
Y'KNOW WHAT FRICK IT LET'S DRAIN SOME UPPER-CLASS SNOBS.
Show threadOld Man MikeJan 24, 2023
@south_lib @farhanasultana bring the truck around front click-clack
Show threadKFFJan 24, 2023

@farhanasultana

🎯🎯👏👏

Show threadQueerBogWitchJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana @alephnaught2tog started reading this and the internal "BILLIONAIRES SHOULD NOT EXIST!!!" klaxons started to go off and I was mighty pleased to read the last line
Show threadSouthern LeftistJan 24, 2023
@QueerBogWitch @farhanasultana @alephnaught2tog
Billionaires are evil.
They're just too powerful to exist in political, socioeconomic settings.
Show threadMarJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana Why?
Show threadAndrewRiddell1Jan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana There is no room on a sustainable planet for billionaires
Show threadcienfuegosJan 24, 2023
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Show threadjeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷJan 24, 2023

@farhanasultana

Sounds like "billionaires" are kinda oligarchs ..

@jeffjarvis
@mmasnick

Show threadKirsty's Old AccountJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana
… and reporters should stop asking their opinions on all mundane, day-to-day matters, as if what they thought should dictate worldwide policy! 👍
Show threadLorian TaylorJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana
Just think if every billionaires money was evenly distributed between every man, woman and child in the US, we'd all be sitting pretty
Show threadWayne YoungJan 24, 2023
@Lorian68 @farhanasultana Where would the money come from? In order for the billionaires to get the money so they could distribute it, they would have to sell their assets. To who? Their enormous wealth is mostly imaginary. Numbers on a page. Elon Musk recently "lost" about $200B, but that means nothing. It just means people were less willing to pay a higher price for Tesla shares. Talk of banning billionaires is barking up the wrong tree. We need to fix the avoidance of tax by the super-rich.
Show threadLorian TaylorJan 25, 2023
@Slartybartfast @farhanasultana Very true! I was kind of fantasizing over the distribution of wealth thing. Totally not realistic!!
Show threadWestTexasJesusJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana The system is designed this way so the more money you have the more power you have and since these people have a tremendous amount of money they have a tremendous amount of power. Now I would love to hear your suggestions on how we can mercifully diminish their wealth.
Show threadMetl MannJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana It should be illegal for any company, company representative or company sympathizer to influence or attempt to influence any elected official, government worker or agency or to have any influence or input on policy unless asked. City, county, state, federal inclusive. The idea being corporations and businesses are not in any way mentioned in the Cosntitution and thus have zero rights under it. The Constitution was written for living individual humans, not non-living entites.
Show threadSnowBankJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana you’re burying the lede there 😂
Show threadFlorian SeverJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana ... pompous bastards ...
Show threadGroschenromanautorinJan 24, 2023

@farhanasultana

This. I would add: A system is failed, when politicians earn a sh*tload of tax money to prevent that they can be corrupted, meanwhile nevertheless they in fact ARE corrupted by said billionaires and lobbyists. And they don't even stop when #ClimateCollapse and the collapse of the entire human civilization are in stake.

#EatTheRich
#SystemChangeNotClimateChange

Show threadTeri Yaki 🖌️🎹🚲💻Jan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana billionaires should be freed from their billions.
Show threadChrisJan 24, 2023

@farhanasultana @aral modern capitalism is specifically designed to produce billionaires and invests them with the most power. They're a problem on many levels.

If we want them to stop existing we need to remove the system that produces them.

Show threadLyndeeJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana
I want to share this a billion times
Show threadMarkRJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana Agree totally. Billionaires are a sign that a country is malfunctioning.
Show threadDavidJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana Billionaires should be taxed out of existence.
Show threadBoddy On The TowpathJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana Billionaires are just people with bigger digit numbers in computers than the rest of us
Show threadZZ BottomJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana 
Show threadWade WainioJan 24, 2023

@farhanasultana Y'all know this.

For many, billionaires already have been (in the case of the #BlackLivesMatter protests & anti-pipeline protests) totally dismissed as irrelevant, as an afterthought, & as absolutely in the way.

Show threadLonewolfJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana basically
Elon musk needs to shut the fuck up
Show threadBill HowardJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana Billionaires appear to be incompatible with democracy. If a nation cannot sustain both, I am more comfortable with tax policies which limit the probability of excess accumulated wealth.
Show threadBruno J. NavarroJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana this should be our next amendment
Show threadSinaiJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana Exactly, billionaires should not exist.
Show threadEricka SimoneJan 24, 2023
@farhanasultana if they do exists, their main focus should be giving the money back to the workers who created that wealth.
Show threadIsocat now → @[email protected]Jan 25, 2023
@farhanasultana The height the rich and powerful are allowed to soar to says less about a society than the depths they're allowed to stoop to.
Show threadFrosty ❄️🌨️Jan 25, 2023
@farhanasultana what about billionaires in the Japanese economy? That's only about 7.6 million USD 
Show threadPensive™️Jan 25, 2023
@farhanasultana And none of them should be in any political office, since they only reoresent other oligarchs.
Show threadGodfrey642Jan 26, 2023

@farhanasultana Billionaires should not pay lower % taxes than the rest of us.

Billionaires should not receive "breaks" aka handouts from state monies.

Billionaires should not have more or greater influence over government or politicians than ppl like me.

Show threadWallOffTrumpJan 26, 2023

@farhanasultana

The whole point of democracy is to restrain the powerful in the service of the common good. Friedman and Reagan declaring that capitalism only works when it is unrestrained was the beginning of American Fascism.

Show threadEric LawtonJan 31, 2023

@farhanasultana
@awpeet

A progressive #wealthTaxNow, at 50% on everything over $50 million would surely be better than guillotine, which is a real risk if we don't reverse the increasing inequality soon.

Show threadecsdFeb 4, 2023
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Show threadmsgbiFeb 4, 2023
@farhanasultana @charles_ex @aloa5
Show threadBlippy the Wonder Slug (MOVED)Feb 4, 2023

@farhanasultana
When it floats across my timeline again 11 days later, the only proper thing to do is to unboost and reboost.

#EatTheRich

Show threadf69kedFeb 4, 2023

@farhanasultana

BUT WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE BILLIONAIRES

Show threadRicki Yasha TarrFeb 4, 2023
@farhanasultana Preach!
Show threadTrötifantFeb 5, 2023

@farhanasultana

My interpretation of the last part (because killing phantasies emerged even here on Mastodon - human rights are universal):
It's about billionaires as a phenomenon, not the persons. Persons who are billionaires should not be billionaires. They should not stay billionaires. They should not have become billionaires in the first place.

It should be structurally impossible to accumulate so much money as a single person.

Show threadDegrowth or ExtinctionFeb 5, 2023
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