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[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 251 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I'm fairly convinced that what makes a lot of the US population right wing is a lack of understanding of what that means.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 105 points 1 week ago (6 children)

My dad (long time conservative but can't get on the trump train which is good at least) thinks that "tax the rich" means people like high end doctors and surgeons. People who are absolutely in the top 1% but like "has a nice weekend car and maybe a lake house" not people making millions of dollars per month or week (or more)

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 106 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"The difference in wealth between a surgeon and a billionaire is about one billion dollars, it's the billionaires that need to pay more taxes, they pay a smaller % than you."

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 60 points 1 week ago (7 children)

How the the story of the nurses who pay more tax than Bezos didn't result in a landslide for progressives, I'll never understand.

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[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 39 points 1 week ago

Your dad thinks that people earn money by working for it. In other words, he's what would be a normal person in a socialist society.

All you have to do now is teach him what capitalism is.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's hard for the human mind to comprehend how much money a billion dollars actually is and neither of the two major political parties in this country want to expand it to them

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Natural result of the massive and constant effort to make the Republican party seem less insane than it is that's undertaken by both political parties for some reason

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 184 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Tax the rich!

…And we voted in the wealthiest man in history and a narcissistic luxury hotel magnate, who openly touted a regressive tax plan, to do it?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago

Makes perfect sense to some, I'm sure.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Somehow they've been convinced that the lower/middle class pays taxes so migrants and other minorities can live like the people they elected and Republicans are the ones fighting to protect them from Democrats who want all their money.

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 178 points 1 week ago

"So your proposal to solve (the debt) is to tax the rich?"

"So your proposal to solve the empty gas tank is to put gas in the tank?"

"So your proposal to solve the dog getting out of the yard is to repair the fence?"

"So your proposal to solve the problem of not being able to see is to put on your glasses?"

Bro. It's the most obvious solution. It also has the added benefit of being the only one that's proven to work.

Being a representative whose mind doesn't immediately jump to that solution is like being a truck driver and not immediately jumping to the solution of slamming on the brakes when you're speeding toward a red light: it's not a difference of opinion or policy, it's dangerous negligence. Why are you holding meetings about this? If you're dedicated to not slamming on the brakes, just try swerving into the daycare playground or whatever your twisted idea is. Don't hold a town hall asking for a rubber stamp on plowing through the toddlers, and definitely don't act surprised when your constituents react in horror and propose using the brakes instead.

[–] Viskio_Neta_Kafo@lemm.ee 177 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Love how he thinks the idea of taxing the rich is so ridiculous that merely repeating it back to the audience is a counter argument.

We really need to get the money out of politics.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

To be fair, I understand his confusion.

You guys voted in a rapist felon along with his billionaire buddies, and now you want the opposite? Did you not understand your vote?

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

why just politics? punish them for, you know; destroying the world and taking so much of all our lives.

edit: if they push us so far that the common person is down for taking real action, make sure it can't happen again.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago

It's a hilarious failure to gaslight an entire town hall by himself.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago

To him it’s ridiculous because they give him so much money. He can’t fathom another point of view.

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 140 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The reason Luigi is so popular with Americans is because he is a microcosm example of the Sociopathic Oligarch's worst nightmare - The average American rising up to literally KILL the wealthy. He is just one man with one victim, but what if he were multiplied by hundreds, or thousands, or millions?

The way black people felt about OJ, is now being felt by all working class Americans toward Luigi. So the wealthy, and the system, want to punish him harshly as an example to the rest of us, while we are plotting ways for him to escape punishment.

When the people are demanding a reasonable solution, and they are dismissed by the goverment in favor of punishing Americans in order to benefit the Sociopathic Oligarchs at our expense - AGAIN! - the Free Market will find an alternative, and nothing frightens them more than the threat of Luigi's Solution catching fire, and becoming a trend.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Can you expand on how it’s comparable to OJ? The guy killed his (ex) partner. To me, that’s much different.

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[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Excellent point! I feel like Americans don't like to understand that practically everyone in the U.S. is working class now. If you cannot quit your job tomorrow and live off of passive, savings, and residuals you are working class. The system is designed to facilitate this, with spartan social safety nets and lack of pensions. It's shit-tier by developed nation standards.

What's that other quote, ~"it only takes 3.5% of the population to generate massive change"? Obviously I am being flippant in this specific instance, but America is a failed democracy and empire in decline.

There is hope, but it requires taking back the power by direct action.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 109 points 1 week ago (19 children)

Nah I say we make some cuts to the capitalists

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 94 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What response was he expecting??

"TAX THE RICH!!!"

"So your solution is to tax the rich?"

"Oh... Well now that you put it that way... No I guess not."

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[–] Redditsux@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] b34k@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’m sure whatever he said after that clip ends was in effort to gaslight that crowd into thinking taxing the rich is somehow a bad thing.

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)

BuT thEYRe jOb CrEAtOrs!!!

ThEYrE pHilANthrOPists!!

INovAtIOn! ThEYrE iNnovATorS!!!

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I loved the “job creators” argument because it is super easy to disprove.

If my company that has one employee makes twice the profits off the same number of orders as it made last year Im not hiring anyone because I don’t need to despite being able to afford it. What would make me hire someone else is the volume of orders increasing past the point where I can fill them hence the customers are the job creators.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And customers are created by average people having disposable income. Want jobs created? Tax the rich and spread that to the working class. EZPZ.

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 76 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Wait till you hear what rich folks say about that plan!

https://patrioticmillionaires.org/

(Spoiler: A lot of them agree)

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The dipshits will continue to vote GOP, don't worry.

I'll tax the rich!

He's a socialist!!

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If they refuse to tax them, I say we EAT them.

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[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Thing about a class war is it only works as long as you can subdivide the lower classes and make them hate each other.

Even the GOP base has figured out that the boot on their neck belongs to the rich, probably thanks to Elon's haphazard culling of govt employees, specifically veterans, while preserving funds that benefit the rich.

Say what you will about conservative voters, but when something is obviously harming them specifically they will go after it, and Trump's administration has finally blundered enough to wake at least some of them up.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I mean think about it guy you've been cutting taxes for the Rich for 50 years and the debt has gone up remarkably. It ain't rocket science.

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[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why not tax those that can afford it?

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Because I might be rich someday, and if that happens I'm going to want even more money. Or something like that.

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