I don't know about you but I am getting sick of the wealthy in this country

[Stargazer99]

they whine about a tax cut and the common people are hurting. apparently the wealthy are suffering from "affluenzia," poor babies with the best medical care, homes, medicines, etc. I think the world would be better off without you, where no one has to suffer under your capitalistic failure system
and if we ever have an other country invasion I think giving them your bunker location might be interesting as you are the richest ones to plunder. Oh I see you think using the poor and middle class to fight and die for you will work. We know how important and "special" you are.

[sop]

1. "When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

[Dave Bowman]

3. Eat the Rich.

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[ret5hd]

2. just remember...

when they retreat to their gated enclaves…

we only have to keep them from getting back out, and the gates can be locked from the outside also.

[justsomeguy01]

24. unfortunately

In the age of telecommunications and internet they can do great damage without ever leaving their mansions/bunkers

[usonian]

4. It's God's swill!

[Ponietz]

12. The stock market is an elemental spirit, a hungry ghost captured and enslaved by capitalism's witch doctors

[OGBuzz]

5. But why must the rich pay any taxes?

It's not like they use any public services such as roads, airports, water, electricity, waste management, police, firefighting, EMS, etc., etc., etc. The nerve of us to ask the rich to pay their fair share to maintain everything that keeps society going. Shame on us all!

[dave99]

7. sarcasm ?

[OGBuzz]

9. Oh yes, I'm dripping with it but I couldn't find the emoji to attach to the post.

[ColoringFool]

6. "GETTING"?! (Caps mine) I'm WAAAY PAST Mme Defarge Time!

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[Figarosmom]

19. With the ballroom and redecorating

We ARE way past the HALL OF MIRRORS.

[ChicagoTeamster]

8. And recently the House Republicans proposed a Capital Gains tax cut to stimulate the economy because the extremely

wealthy are doing great in their stock portfolios and we can't let the government get more of their measly 15% tax that they'll be paying on all of this after all of their other tax breaks

[OldBaldy1701E]

10. 'Getting'??

Where have you been for the last 50 years or so?

(I am joking around.)

It is not a question of 'thinking' the world would be better off, it is the truth. The fact that we have convinced so many other countries that this corrupted version of capitalism is anything other than a rich person scam is what is the most horrifying aspect of the 'legacy' of the United States.

We are going to be historically seen as no different than any other two-bit conquerors at the rate we are going. That is partly due to what I just said. Our desire to make the entire planet a capitalistic nightmare so we can control it all.

History is not going to be kind about it.

[Bluetus]

23. My thoughts exactly.

OK, if a person is just getting out of high school and only now coming to the realization that the rich have been exploiting this count since -- well since forever, welcome aboard. But if a person is an adult who has ostensibly living in the real world, for a decade or two, it is way past time to wake the fuck up.

We don't need "course corrections." We don't need a "return to normal". We don't need "solutions ar the margins".

We need to be thinking in revolutionary terms. And let's give the MAGA people some credit. They aren't very good at processing information to arrive at clear understandings and appropriate solutions, but dammit, they DO understand this system is really fucked up and we are all in big trouble if we can't overthrow this class of oligarchs

We actually have a lot more in common with the MAGA people than we do with the "moderates" and "Institutionalists" who have enabled this fascist machine to establish itself over the past 45 years. Talarico, Platner, AOC are talking to these people in terms they can understand. Trump is losing this crown. We need to take this opportunity to educate them and bring them to our side. I am not talking about the Confederate flag-waving racists and gun-totin' nut cases. They are lost causes. But there are many who have felt an affinity with MAGA because they sense just how fucked up the system is and nobody else was acknowledging that.

Eat the Rich.

[Stargazer99]

11. It looks like a few have it figured it out and used their critical thinking skills-congratulations

the training did not work on you, I conclude you must be more intelligent than the average citizen

[VanceFan]

13. Billionaires should not exist

Mangione had the right solution.

[Grim Chieftain]

14. Good, decent people share the wealth

The others, not so much.

I'm reminded of an encounter my husband had a few months ago when the lottery was very high. He was at the liquor store and several people buying lottery tickets were discussing what they would do with the money if they won. An elderly gentleman turned to my husband and said "I'd walk up and down Main Street and give $1,000 to each person I pass". That pretty much says it all. Some people are about "ME", but the truly good among us are about "WE".

[jmbar2]

15. Obscenely wealthy people become emotionally stunted, at high risk for committing "Social Murder"

Social murder (German: sozialer Mord) is a concept used to describe an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence. Originally coined in 1845 by German philosopher Friedrich Engels, it has since been used by left-wing politicians, journalists, and activists to describe deaths attributed to larger social forces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder

Extreme wealth isolates people, and shields them from exposure to life outside of their bubbles.

They don't fill their gas tanks, shop for groceries, cook, raise their own children, maintain a house, garden, clean, wander around a fair or festival without a phalanx of guards, create household budgets, go to potlucks, help out a neighbor, comfort someone who has just been laid off, or injured on the job.

They have NONE of the life experiences or exposure that would help them care about, or even think about other human beings. Their spawn grow up in the same bubble and never leave.

Let them wallow inside their bubble, but NEVER give them power over other people's lives.

[Fil1957]

16. They prove the old adage "Money can't buy happiness". Maybe there should be a new one like: "Excessive wealth turns you

into a selfish, power hungry, psychopathic fascist".

[tetedur]

18. The main problem in this country is the rich don't have enough money.

They will not be happy until they have it all. That is the source of all struggles today.

[lastlib]

20. Shakespeare amended:

"the first thing we do, let's kill all the billionaires."

I approve this message......

[displacedvermoter]

21. They are a lot sicker of all of us, I imagine...

[lastlib]

22. I've been seeing rich people get their taxes cut for almost 50 years.....

...and I have YET to see one use their tax cut to improve the levees around New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.