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Cincinnatus was an elitist prick, but it appears I confused him with his son, who took more direct and brutal actions against the Plebs:

Cincinnatus was opposed to attempts to raise the legal position of plebeians in Roman society. His son Caeso Quinctius, like his father, was an opponent of the commoners and tried to limit their rights. He often tried to depreciate the role of this stratum in the political life of the country, often against the legal order. In 461 BCE his actions, preventing plebeian tribunes from speaking at the Forum, were accused of breaking the Roman order. Caeso was released on bail and then fled to the Etruscans. He was then sentenced to death, and his father had to sell large tracts of land and concentrate on working on his small farm. Through their hard and arduous work, Cincinnatus and his family managed to feed themselves and survive the time of discomfort.

https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/biographies/lucius-quinctius-cincinnatus/amp/

"Okay, TommyBoy - you don't mind if I call you TommyBoy do you? Of course you don't - so TommyBoy, here's what we're going to do. You're going to pay $130 million to pay our troops enough to buy some ramen soup for a month, and I'm going to give you ANYTHING you want. Hell, I just gave Argentina $40 billion, instead of health care for Americans, just so the SecTreas' friends wouldn't go belly up in their irresponsibly risky investment with a country that goes bankrupt every 3.5 years."

"My name is Timothy."

"What? No, it's TommyBoy now. So whaddaya say, TommyBoy, you in?"

"Sure, whatever you say, Your Excellency."

I don't know how we could ever find out, there are no clues anywhere.

TRUTH!

In 2020, The Rand Corp issued a report on income inequality, and the situation is far worse than most people think.

In 1974, they re-wrote the tax code, baking Trickle Down Economics into the system.

Since then, the median salary of $43K in 1975 has increased to only $50K today, while they would have been making $92K if the tax code hadn't been steadily re-written to enrich the wealthy at the cost of the middle class and poor.

In that same time period, the mean income for the top 1% went from $289K to $1.384 million, while they would have been making $630K under the old tax codes.

That's a 17.4% increase in the lower median, and an increase of 321.6% in the 1% median. Clearly there has been an upwards distribution of wealth at the expense of the middle class since the tax codes started to be re-written in 1974 to favor the top economic tier. Imagine how different your life would be if the average income was $92K, instead of almost half that?

This study was released in 2020, before the Covid Pandemic. It has only gotten worse, and is accelerating under MAGA. A few are getting richer than ever, while everybody else declines.

Read more about it :

New York Magazine:

Study: Inequality Robs $2.5 Trillion From U.S. Workers Each Year

Fast Money:

‘We were shocked’: RAND study uncovers massive income shift to the top 1%

Reading these articles radicalized me.

That's interesting and all, but there's quite a bit of middle ground between "make the billionaire pay tax" and "entirely pay off the national debt".

There is no actual real reason to ever pay back that debt, at least as long as the USD remains the world's reserve currency.

Which, of course, may not be the case in upcoming years.

He already has billions more than he could spend in a lifetime. It isn't smart it's deranged.

130mil just get favors from trump.

It’s not even greed anymore at that point, it’s a psychological issue, akin to hoarding, except your hoarding ruins the entire planet.

100% this is it. Hoarding usually boils down to OCD and needing to feel a false sense of control.

You never know when you might need to possess all that money you will never be able to spend (even if you do somehow achieve immortality) just like you don't know when you might need that collection of old newspapers. But when that day comes, you're convinced you'll be ready. Then they'll see. They'll finally all see. Unless somebody steals or misplaces your "treasures."

This is literally from a recent article about Thiel and his Antichrist lectures:

The world's richest, in his view, think too little about their identities as billionaires and what will become of their treasures after death.

Your fucking identity? Bro, you'll be worm food like the rest of us. That's why they call it the great equalizer. (And that is also probably exactly why you fear it more than anything else.)

Its a form of psychosis, and is considered a mental illness in most countries. America is literally an example of addiction to money.

I guess that's slightly better?

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2025-10-22/germany-covers-federal-worker-paychecks-19507712.html

There's my source, but essentially yes. I suspect that Germany will send the US military an invoice when the government shutdown ends.