"The problem with the billionaire system is that it just so happens the notion that it is a virtuous and generative thing for fewer and fewer people to seize more and more of a system's resources by robbing and murdering everyone else simply isn’t true.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"The choice is stark: We can have billionaires or democracy, but not both, not with these billionaires, not with our current campaign finance laws, and not with our thoroughly corrupt Supreme Court. ...
Every problem we face now—from the climate catastrophe to drilled holes in our safety net to the targeted scapegoating of immigrants and trans kids—is the result of massive concentrations of wealth."
~ Jason Sattler
#wealth #EconomicElites #rich #Trump #Musk
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Start by calling Trump's next tax scam a 'billionaire bailout'
We need to make it clear who we're fighting for—and against.
(thecause.substack.com)
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Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her)replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy this is an excellent, scathing, and damningly true article
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lupus_blackfurreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Can't have both...
And the steal-ionaires obv know this as demonstrated by their prevailing anti-democratic goals.
Robber Barons Unite!! In favor of unfettered capitalism!!
But they're the smarterer... Simply cause they have the money... Even if they didn't make that money themselves...
FFS.
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🫏Sociopathic?
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@wdlindsy we don't have a democracy.
We never had a democracy.
At first, it was a slavocracy. Then, it was a white supremacist ethnostate. Now, it is a dictatorship of the billionaire elite.
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Peter Butlerreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
FYI, @JuliusGoat is on Mastodon and is an excellent follow
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Peter Butler last edited by
@peterbutler @JuliusGoat Thank you — yes, I've been following him and agree.
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@burnoutqueen I think any honest and informed person knows that democracy in the US has been from its inception aspirational and unrealized — and deeply flawed. Facing that, we can either give up the democratic experiement altogether and succumb to authoritarianism, or keep fighting to realize what hasn't yet been realized.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to lupus_blackfur last edited by
@lupus_blackfur Yes, I agree.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) last edited by
@susankayequinn I agree!
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@Paragone Adam Smith created a system that Reagan and his cronies tried to turn into the trickle-down theory. And you're right: does not work.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Green Roc Thoughts last edited by
@GreenRoc Yes — many of us stand right with you in this experience and these convictions.
