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🏳️🌈🖖🏽Bernie is the billionaire class’s nightmare.
Offline and Free@georgetakei
We wouldn't be in this mess if Bernie had run instead of Hillary and Biden being installed by the DNC.
People would have come out to vote for him.
Will the DNC learn this time?
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES@offline_and_free @georgetakei
As long as we the leftist voters show up in the primaries and vote
If we don't vote, they won't change
You can't ask them to magically change before you vote. Why would they? Why would anyone do anything for people who don't vote?
You have to vote, forcing them out
That's the only way it works
Stop depending on magic vibes getting through to centrist dem assholes and then they magically turn into another kind of person. Just vote and force them out
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Grumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@georgetakei Luigi Mangione is the billionaire's class's nightmare.
🍄slow learner, ❤️🔥deep feelerYeah honestly, if Bernie's 5% tax is their nightmare then they should try living in poverty for a few years to develop their understanding of reality.
@vervain @georgetakei My gentle suggestion:
Livestream beheading billionaires one at a time until the survivors beg to just pay their taxes.
FurballsNHairballs@georgetakei
Jaime seems to be pretty cocksure of his status.
Personally ,I think he's an arrogant mf'er.
Jaime seems to be pretty cocksure of his status.
Personally ,I think he's an arrogant mf'er.
Hot Dog Water, will not complyJamie looks awfully smug for a soft boy who's never had a job in his life.
@georgetakei
I'm thinking if we were all wealthy like Sulu here...we'd feel the same way right?
I'm thinking if we were all wealthy like Sulu here...we'd feel the same way right?
Felis_Catus_Domesticus@georgetakei and despite his popularity, the dems still rig primaries for the likes of HRC. Then they wonder why & how MAGA/Trumpism takes hold of the common man.
Deluded fools though they be, more than a few MAGAs voted for Trump because they actually believed he'd change things..
How did the Dem's manage to so bungle this and lose the trust of ordinary Americans?
A purge is long overdue.. in BOTH parties. Out with the boomers & their endemic hypocrisy and inability to change.
Let the party swing to the left, as the electorate has been demanding for decades at this point, and let the chips fall where they may. I am beginning to think that the Dem party rules out of fear, not out of a desire for progress or change. There is no other explanation for the past 12 years.
Conny Nasch@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @georgetakei more like greed, or as they said in the old days; bread and circuses. This is how I see it from the EU perspective 🍿
I see a Dem party that is deeply out of touch with its base, and all too in touch with its big, rich, corporate donors. The common man who "made" the party has been forgotten, eclipsed, by the need for big money donations in the US political system.
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @georgetakei
"Let the party swing to the left"
It's not going to happen until the left votes
Just making sure everyone gets that
Corporatist dems aren't going to magically change
We need to show up in the primaries and vote them out
I'm not accusing you of not getting that
Just for everyone else reading who might think "they go left, then i'll vote"
Nope. Doesn't work that way
You vote. You show up in the primaries and replace them
Jones Murphy@benroyce @Felis_Catus_Domesticus @georgetakei right-wing Dems aren't corporatist. Like Republicans, they are first and foremost the most bigoted Dems. Corporatism comes from bigotry & hatred. The left talks FAR too much about corporatism and far too little about bigotry & hatred.
@jonesmurphy @Felis_Catus_Domesticus @georgetakei
Some of these people "on the left" couldn't bring themselves to vote for the black woman. ostensibly because of their monomania over one issue. And that monomania over one issue feels forced, contrived, inauthentic. Are they really on the left. They don't seem to care about anything else
When we look at those who would vote for biden but not harris, i see bigotry there as well. From very loud, very obsessed, single issue so-called "left" voices
Michael T Babcock@georgetakei to be fair, basic math skills are the billionaire class's nightmare but they've done a great job of lowering education spending too.
François @Jura@georgetakei interesting how billionaires can read complex annual financial reports yet can't make simple tax math.
@FrancoisPrague well, it is on Fox "news", a LOS channel...
Askold@georgetakei american educational system doesn't provide understanding of such abstract concepts as percentages and proportions it seems
Nathan Salwen@georgetakei Why is no one talking about a windfall profits tax on the oil companies who are prospering at the expense of the rest of us due to Trump's Iran idiocy?
Should the language be changed from "wealth tax" to "national property tax." From an economic standpoint, most money tied up in stock after an IPO just sits there waiting for someone else to pay more for the right to collect dividends which never come. (like amazon). It's the exact same logic as how property taxes discourage the disuse of land.
NutriamixAs usual, Dimon and his billionaire buddies who didn't”t earn their money only believe “the commoners” should pay taxes so they can pay next to nothing.
MasterMischief@georgetakei Either pay your damn taxes or we bring back the guillotines. Is that fair?
@georgetakei Anyone can post fabulist shit with zero plans for making it happen online, actually.
HakeemGI don't understand why he only did 5%. If it were me I would have proposed a 90% wealth tax. I guess the only logical conclusion is that Bernie has been captured by corporate interests and is now a "Corporate Socialist."
@HakeemG @georgetakei Right?
Why not also say you'll put billionaires in actual Squid Games-style death contests, as long as you're just running your mouth about whatever?
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