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[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 181 points 1 month ago

Wait till he hears how necessary it is for life to get harder for billionaires.

[-] Breve@pawb.social 124 points 1 month ago

That's why they're trying to take power. Billionaires would rather destroy the world and drive all life to extinction than to give up their private jets and yachts.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 month ago

just wait till they outlaw protests and impose curfews

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

That's so 2020. Oh, that was under trump rule. Just a small sample of what's to come if he gets into office again.

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[-] Frittiert@feddit.org 32 points 1 month ago

The French found a solution some time ago, maybe history really repeats.

[-] tja@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

There are now a lot of people who think we should be nice to billionaires because they also could become one sometime in the future

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't be the first civilization that disappeared because the elite doesn't want to compromise and give up status. It's a constant in history.

[-] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

The worst part is--it's really not. These guys could all stay millionaires and we could still solve our system's worst distribution issues. Their biggest hardship could be dealing with not being The Guy With The Biggest Number when they go to their rich guy parties.

Personally I'm in favor of making them destitute and/or imprisoning them, but going that far really isn't strictly necessary.

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[-] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

Harder - lol. He'll have to settle for two 180 foot yachts instead of three.

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 146 points 1 month ago

necessary for what?

necessary for what, motherfucker?

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Your comment has the same energy as "states' rights to do what?", and I'm here for it.

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

If I wasn't at work I'd edit the goose meme to match.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

For a complete fascist takeover.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 1 month ago
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[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 70 points 1 month ago

The fucking gall this billionaire POS has to utter the phrase "live within our means."

[-] Mikrochip@feddit.org 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make"

Why do we only seem to get the bad outlandish things from books and movies? :/

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[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Shut up, shut up, shut up please just shtfu already elon. How are people like him and bezos controlling the world? I swear we celebrate and praise mediocre morons in the US.

As a nation we have lost 30 years of progress because we give the loudest most idiotic people to ever live a platform to spew their collective nonsense. Take me back to 2010 where the internet was still fun and not just some massive propaganda machine for the uber wealthy and political nut jobs

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 month ago

How are people like him and bezos controlling the world?

Capitalism

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 month ago

But without capitalism we wouldn't have (insert something that has nothing to do with capitalism but that I completely attribute to it). And that would mean no trade.

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[-] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

The United States has always been the best place for the mediocre white man.

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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 month ago
[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

That graph is interesting. When was Reagan president again...?

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

When was Reagan president again…?

Nailed it.

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[-] Blackout@fedia.io 53 points 1 month ago

Add this to the news that Mike Johnson said they will end Obamacare and I can't believe anyone would vote for Trump. He's going to raise your costs, reduce government services, kill healthcare as we know it, the list goes on and on.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

They literally want to end government. Aka, services for anyone who isn't wealthy.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The only government service they want is the police, and it to be funded by civil forfeiture.

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[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

There is no middle class. There are workers and owners. If you own real estate and stonks you are still a worker unless you can live off of just investments. This is designed to corrupt and neuter you. You have enough skin in the game of the owners to not want to oppose them, but not enough to actually be them. Unless you hope to retire, at which point you make the transition from working class to owning class, but only at the end of your life, if you even make it that far, and often owning very little.

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[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 41 points 1 month ago

Necessary for Elon and trump to evade prison sentences.

These shitbags are trading the health of the majority to evade repercussions for their crimes (of which there are many).

Drone strike please.

[-] Glifted@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

🗡️🫨

... there's no guillotine emojis yet

[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What even is that face emoji doing?

I like how you improvised.

Edit: 🗡️🫠. I wanted to try and I like this.

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[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 32 points 1 month ago

Fascist cunt

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

I wonder if when he says "necessary" he's referring to some longtermism weird BS.

I mean, he's definitely referring to some weird BS. But I wonder whether specifically it's longtermism BS.

[-] takeda@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

I read recently "On Freedom" by Timothy Snyder and he mentions that. Billionaires are sucking or wealth and when we suffer, we are told that this is temporary and toward a greater good (which never comes).

Sadly it is successful and a lot of Americans believe that.

It opened my eyes seeing how we are set up to fight each other (blaming minorities) while oligarchs are making our lives more miserable by hoarding country's wealth.

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He is, though he's wrong about Trump's plans being anything beneficial in the long term. But even what he's saying about any part of it being harmful is a contradiction of Trump's claims about the economy

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[-] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 month ago

Electively suffering hardship? Billionaires first, set a good example for the rest of us, and the hardship can trickle down.

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[-] Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 1 month ago

“Some of you may die, but that is a risk I am willing to make”

When can we feed Elon to a dragon?

[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 24 points 1 month ago

Bro we couldn't even get people to wear masks and get free tests and vaccines without triggering white outrage, how you think actual financial hardship is going to go over with these people?

[-] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago

He'll immediately blame Biden for all the suffering he causes.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

They'll scream for blood, but it won't be the blood of billionaires.

They own the largest communication networks across the globe, both traditional and digital. They have access to the most cutting edge AI technology that's fast becoming indistinguishable from reality. They're cooperating with the man in charge of the most elaborate troll farm ever created.

They'll use that power to keep breeding angry, violent reactionaries who blame minorities and swallow whatever their cult leader tells them to. But that will be rookie shit a decade from now. Forget social media sock puppets, our entire chain of knowledge is about to be undermined. Bullshit, agenda pushing academic papers will be published, filled with bullshit, agenda pushing statistics, fawned over by bullshit, agenda pushing media and cited in bullshit, agenda pushing books. It will spew out at a rate far faster than anyone can possibly debunk and even if they try, they're indistinguishable from the AI-powered, sock puppet "experts" they're arguing with.

Laws, regulations and life-altering punishments are the only way to stop them so they're working hard to ensure that never happens.

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[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago

Trump is better at this than Musk...

It will be a beautiful necessary. Everyone will love the carnage. We will destroy America bigly. Like never before. The radical left democrats will hate it, but it will be glorious. Trust me.

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Bitch, we're already going through hardship. How much more hardship do we need to go through just so you can keep your power trip going?

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[-] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago

What's up with upper class trying to destroy middle class all the time? Are middle class a threat to them? Has to be, otherwise this wouldn't matter.

Make things hard for billionaires and spread their wealth amongst the lower class to start evening shit out. Who tf needs almost a trillion unspendable dollars?

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

There's no such thing as the middle class. You either own means of production, you sell your labour to those who do, or you belong to the criminal class that doesn't contribute to the growth of capital. The middle class is a fairy tale capitalists tell us to keep us in the labour class instead of the far more sensible criminal class.

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

its only "necessary" so him and his ilk can continue to bleed the nation dry

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

So where are the "Republicans are good for the economy" voters now?

[-] Karjalan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Anyone that actually cares about the economy would see that every time the republicans get in they fuck it, and every time the democrats get in they fix it.

But they don't care about reality, only their feelings

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