Lmao
He’s really not going to like “Eat The Rich.”
Billionaires aren’t scared enough.
Let’s change that.
Fuck politico though, spokespeople for genocide.
How about, “murder that stale cracker?” Does that evoke sympathy in his tiny heart?
He might change his tune when he realizes the alternative is guillotines….
Roth on Tuesday stressed the significant contributions of the city’s wealthiest residents to its tax base and said these members of the so-called one-percent are “not enemies” and are “at the top of the great American economic pyramid for a reason.”
There it is. The “we’re better than you and deserve more” conceit.
That reason: they are so pathologically greedy that they grubbed up way more money than anyone could need and more than anyone else around.
And that grubbing explicitly is stealing from the people who actually create the money, the workers.
If all it took to be rich was pathological greed, there would actually be even more billionaires.
It’s pathological greed and generational wealth.
Don’t forget the theft. Workers create value that capitalists steal. Profit is stolen wages.
Interesting how they’re there for being stains on humanity, but they think they’re special.
Tax the rich is the moderate stance to eat the rich.
No not at all. How can you compare making people pay taxes they owe with people talking about eating them.
Let there be millionaires and billionaires, but they have to pay a lot of taxes for how much they get.
Some billionaires pay less in taxes a year then poor people do.
Let there be no billionaires. Let the maximum wealth be £/€/$10m, depending on the country, obviously.
He really won’t like what people replace ‘tax’ with if they’re not allowed to say “tax the rich.”
Wealth inequality is killing quality if life. We would like to put that wealth to productive use through taxation and government investments, but setting it on fire (metaphorically) would still leave the average person better off.
If we can’t tax it or destroy it, then people will be pushed further and further until they have nothing to lose, and after that, things will get ugly.
“Ax the rich”.
and my ax (to kill rich people with)
Wrong. Tax is real threat for them, anything else – isn’t.
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You’re seriously using the exceptional, almost unique, case as an argument?
Brooother this guy is dense. We are proposing to kill/eat the rich in general. Thats obviously more of a threat than taxes.
I actually agree what I think he meant was that the rich would rather be killed than taxed. Maybe it was just phrased poorly
Yeah, killed just means they’re estate gets taxed during inheritance but by that point thay’re dead so it’s illogical to care. Much more realistic a narcissistic personality grasps for ways to avoid any unsavory changes in wealth status vs literally dying. They aren’t afraid of their life insurance policy activating, actually they might even look forward to it in a strange way.
Right up until the moment it is.
Everything dies. We literally do not know how to stop this. We’re real good at helping it along though.
The uber rich didn’t build a bunch of bunkers to protect themselves from…taxes.
collectivization >.<
I wonder how he feels about “eat the rich”.
Fuck him.
Reading this as the Aerosmith song blasts bc my anarchist small child demanded to watch the music video before school right now!
Some of them were born this way I suppose lol. They are a self-selected group of greedy people. There has never been an easier group to vilify, because they are literally villains, hoarding resources that others desperately need
Imagine thinking you’re better than others because you’re good at amassing wealth.
Everywhere around you people are suffering but because of your innate superiority you are not only not suffering, you have far more than you could ever hope to need, and you cling to it white-knuckled like it’s going to stand up and walk away.
Congratulations, you are the smelliest sphincter.
The interesting thing is that the media trained us to admire these people, and listen with bated breath to their advice. When in fact they are the last people we should ask for any kind of moral guidance. Their greed has made literally every major societal issue worse. Fortunately, I think that illusion is dissolving, and more and more it’s a majority opinion that the rich are too rich and it needs to stop. Lots of disagreement on how to stop it, unfortunately
They are all psychopaths.
I am up for a hate crime
Haha wow he really tried to throw some antisemitism in there too.
“I must say that I consider the phrase tax the rich — […] to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs, and even the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’” Roth said.
I think you get a good peek into the psyche of powerful people when they use inappropriate terms from marginalized communities as a shield against just actions or comments made against them. It implies they see those genuine complaints from minorities as something merely performative - a tool for sympathy, a shield from criticism. It reveals narcissism and a lack of empathy.
Israelis are not a marginalized community for the record despite their victim playing, but I take your point.
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From the river to the sea is not antisemitic. In the Palestine before 1947 Jews, Christians and Muslims all lived side by side as neighbors, and none of them had spwcial rights or was threatened.
What that sentence does mean though, is that there would be no jewish apartheid ethnostate that is actively stealing land left and right, and starting wars with people they see as inferior.
Oh I know, that’s just the card he’s trying to play (the same card Israel uses regularly, ‘any support of Palestine = antisemitism’, ‘any criticism of Israel = antisemitism’).
Appreciate your comment though.
Ah, I misunderstood your comment then, it’s true that Israelis try to play that card (quite successfully so).
I’d recommend putting the fake “antisemitism” (because not all anti Zionism is antisemitic) in quotes, to make it more clear.
Is he implying that he believes “rich = Jewish”? Because if so, how anti-semitic of him.
I have no qualms with working-class Jews.
Likewise, I think all billionaire oligarchs need to be taxed at higher rates. (Currently they’re taxed less than the working class; being compelled to pay your fair share isn’t prejudicial!). Race/ethnicity/religion simply doesn’t factor into it.
