• kalkulat@lemmy.world
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    158 families isn’t much to feed 300 million starving people. We need rules on who gets to eat the 0.01%

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      Golf is such a perfect rich person sport. It wastes a ton of space, destroys local wilflife, the hardest part is done by the caddy (i.e. not the rich person), and at the end you feel like you accomplished something, but you’ve done absolutely fuck all other than show off your expensive shit.

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    The way to return democracy to the people is to limit the involvement of money. First step is to repeal “Citizens” United, the law that officially sold the US government to corporations and the wealthy under the guise of Freedom (as usual). Second, organizations (including but not limited to corporations) should be outright banned from political compaign contributions. Organizations aren’t citizens. They can’t vote. They shouldn’t be allowed to pour money into elections.

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      People talk about the Harambe timeline, but Citizens United is when the shit started going sideways.

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      It’s not enough to reform campaign finance. We need to destroy the class of people behind this. We need to really wage class war, a class war of annihilation.

      We need a national wealth cap. 1000x median household income. Anything more is taxed at 100%.

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    In the end, when Trump is certified as the modern day hitler, these families need to be held accountable…. Like the soldiers of the concentration camps.

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      There are only a few outcomes that would lead down that road, and while I hope for one of them, I am pretty convinced they’ll all die happy and rich in their warm beds of old age after getting lots of plastic surgery and riding on lots of jets and jetskis

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    Citizens United was the final straw in the downfall of America democracy.

    It’s been inevitable since.

    Unless it’s overturned it’s over, and I don’t think they can overturn it.

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      Citizens United

      Corporations have been ‘people’ since the 1886 USSC decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.

      Yet somehow, unlike most people, they’ve escaped having to go to jail when they commit crimes. I’d call that an unfair advantage.

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    An oligarchy is what America has been for over a decade now officially. Every politician is bought and sold, told to vote on every bill by the companies lobbyists that line their pockets. Every vote is controlled by mass propaganda on every network and every corporate social media.

    But we’re a democracy, right?

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    Should figure out where they live and protest on their street instead of burning down the local 7/11.

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      The only access to them is media in the backroom or private event held by rich asking what do you think of protests on main street because you can’t get close to their property and if you can they are probably in another house

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        People snuck into a military airbase and spray painted an RAF plane the other day and got away with it.

        Rich people get complacent. They’re so proud of themselves, so fat and satisfied. They can’t imagine that anyone like us would ever get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food.

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    If my math is correct 158 families would be around .00005%. They have no clue what life is like for the average person yet they have so much influence. Gross.