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MostlyHarmless Feb 26, 2023

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and then buy the pond. Tell him he can't have the fish, but he can fish for you and you will sell the fish and give him a very small cut, and then he'll say stuff like "I am hungry and my teeth hurt". Nobody wants to fish these days.

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Karen K Feb 26, 2023

@MostlyHarmless As long as working people suffer and the rich get even more morbidly rich, it makes perfect sense to Republicans.

Here’s another fishing analogy to make the point:

https://giraffe-vanilla-e9ae.squarespace.com/home/gop-the-pennywise-party

GOP: The Pennywise Party — Absurd-World Country

February 11, 2023 One thing the Republicans have done very well is to convince a huge bloc of the population that cruelty is cost-effective—that cruel policies are always the most financially responsible ones. But are they, really? At best, cruelty often turns out to be penny-wise and pound-foolish

Absurd-World Country

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Disco Sexual Feb 26, 2023

@karenvkelly
@MostlyHarmless
Morbidly rich - I love that. Throwing morbidly in front of anything just makes it sound extra awful.

EDIT: Great article, by the way. I don't consider myself liberal, but that article definitely lays out a better way of doing things than just punishing the (potentially) unworthy

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Karen K

@bezorp @MostlyHarmless I picked up “morbidly rich” from another mastodon thread and thought that was a perfect description, so I’ll definitely use that a lot going forward! Sometimes I also use “wealth depraved.”