Daniel Keys MoranJul 8, 2025

A guy who I've known many decades said that my embrace of the far left had lowered his opinion of me a lot.

We were talking about wealth taxes, qua my earlier post about 90% tax rates. But not just income taxes, estate taxes, real estate taxes, generally speaking, asset taxes.

The billionaire class has to cease to exist. What the bootlickers defending them seem to not understand, is that this is the *nice* way to make that happen.

Show threadMartin's pipe dreamsJul 8, 2025
@fatsam the not nice way was guillotines last time around
Show threadenoch_exe_incJul 9, 2025
@pipe_dreams @fatsam The “last time”? The last time in my cultural sphere was when the people rose up and killed all of the feudal landlords that oppressed them. And then a bunch of other shіt happened that makes it hard to talk about with outsiders, but personally, I see the mass execution of landlords to be a net positive for society.
Show threadMartin's pipe dreams
@enoch_exe_inc @fatsam sometimes in dark hours I doubt that there is any core moral good in humans at all. But there are always counter examples. The fedi community for example. So I conclude the rant on a positive note.
Thank you fediverse for bringing such nice people to my phone. And thanks to the mods and admins for keeping it nice and providing the infrastructure for this wonderful place.
Jul 9, 2025 at 5:09amWeb