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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 days ago

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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 days ago
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  • sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    That quote is like something you’d read in one of those Onion reels. I thought it was satire at first.

    Really hard to tell these days isn’t it.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      Billionaire money is not all bling.

      It definitely has a strong Onion vibe including the photo of Adam N. Sycophant.

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    Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. If the only people spreading billionaire lies were billionaires, we’d be fine. But ALL conservatives lie like this in defense of billionaires.

    Conservatives are the foot-soldiers of the billionaire class. We cannot defeat the boss without eliminating their foot-soldiers.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Joked about it before, but CHUDs literally are just the minions minion-steve

      • incomprehensible language (based banana pillmaxxer)
      • adored by facebook
      • all about conformity
      • compelled to serve the biggest, most powerful villain
      • SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Huh. I think there’s something to this. It’s time to investigate minion theory, alongside Everyone is 12 Now Theory.

        • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          Everyone is 12 Minions Theory coming soon!

        • kisstrel [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          And investigate silly agitprop too

          We want healthcare!

          Capital: no-gru

  • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Yes, and that’s why we need to seize the means of production instead of taxing.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah , I’ve seen the poverty wages, the bullshit they produce, and the innovations like data harvesting, flock cameras, and manipulative apps.

      Let’s have less of this system and transition to something else.

  • Lowleekun [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    He is somewhat right. Taxing is not the solution but to expropriate is!

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    “When you tax something, you get less of it.” Good, I want less of no billionaires.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Also like, fuck them and their whole “my wealth is none of your business!” Bullshit.

      I and many other lgbt people have to be harassed every day because the Bible says we’re disgusting. The Bible says you lot are scum as well. If I am forced to conform to the Bible, so should you.

      Either the Bible should not be used to dictate morals and laws, or you should be bound to it too. Can’t have it both ways, porko.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Here we go again

    “You dumb rubes, you don’t get it! It’s the bourgeoisie’s job to be a full-time customer. He will do all the consumer spending for you! This will prop up jobs!”

    Meanwhile in reality: all the elites are shrinking their actual businesses and hiring less people. Do they not realize rich people HATE hiring? The midwest is a corpse of its former self because the middle class is dead and we were told to “just trust the absolute biggest megacorps.”

    Google ‘Marginal Propensity to Consume’.

  • LeninsBeard [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    There’s definitely a quote from Capital about this, how the “ideal” capitalist would never spend a penny on themselves and would essentially be an empty vessel for capital to flow through. But I’m too lazy to look it up bleh

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      By counting the most meagre form of life (existence) as the standard, indeed, as the general standard – general because it is applicable to the mass of men. He turns the worker into an insensible being lacking all needs, just as he changes his activity into a pure abstraction from all activity. To him, therefore, every luxury of the worker seems to be reprehensible, and everything that goes beyond the most abstract need – be it in the realm of passive enjoyment, or a manifestation of activity – seems to him a luxury. Political economy, this science of wealth, is therefore simultaneously the science of renunciation, of want, of saving and it actually reaches the point where it spares man the need of either fresh air or physical exercise. This science of marvellous industry is simultaneously the science of asceticism, and its true ideal is the ascetic but extortionate miser and the ascetic but productive slave. Its moral ideal is the worker who takes part of his wages to the savings-bank, and it has even found ready-made a servile art which embodies this pet idea: it has been presented, bathed in sentimentality, on the stage. Thus political economy – despite its worldly and voluptuous appearance – is a true moral science, the most moral of all the sciences. Self-renunciation, the renunciation of life and of all human needs, is its principal thesis. The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being. Everything which the political economist takes from you in life and in humanity, he replaces for you in money and in wealth; and all the things which you cannot do, your money can do. It can eat and, drink, go to the dance hall and the theatre; it can travel, it can appropriate art, learning, the treasures of the past, political power – all this it can appropriate for you – it can buy all this: it is true endowment. Yet being all this, it wants to do nothing but create itself, buy itself; for everything else is after all its servant, and when I have the master I have the servant and do not need his servant. All passions and all activity must therefore be submerged in avarice. The worker may only have enough for him to want to live, and may only want to live in order to have that.

  • shath [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    if it’s not all bling why is he so shiny

    • Kefla [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      john-cruelty I replaced my skin with all new Shinium™ because it makes me look less poor

      • EveningCicada [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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          When you’re an adrenochromeaholic.

      • agentant [any]@hexbear.net
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        cruelty-handler Hey liberal, if capitalism is so bad then explain this shoots you in the head smuglord

  • GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    We just need to pass a law that makes a tax loophole for billionaires to hide their wealth in the hands of all their employees.

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    OK, deal. We let them keep their yachts and jewelry and only take the “productive business capital”

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Like we’re upset by the oppulence in wealth disparity btw. It’s not the spending of the ill gotten gain, it’s that your mom had to pay to bankruptcy for a medical emergency after working her whole life.

    Sometimes they feed cows macadamia nuts in Hawaii to piss you off. Usually it’s the rotten society the system produces.

  • orlando [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    the cato institute. libertarian chud-tank, disregard

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Most billionaire wealth isn’t in … jewelry

    cracker Which is why we must, instead, tax the pimps!

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    you tax their wealth by selling their shares into market, you do 100 rounds of this and now shares are more equally distributed, fucking econ 102 mfers. it doesn’t even challenge capitalism or boomerism

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