Damn, buying the presidency only cost $37 in poor people money terms. Tax the billionaires out of existence.

You know, if our elected reps forced all the health insurance companies to restructure as non-profits and instituted a full public option people would have more money to donate to their re-election campaigns. These politicians gotta think strategically.

I love when everyone realizes things 1.5 months too late.

Culture/race wars are a distraction by the rich to prevent the real war, the class war

We are all cowards for letting it get this bad. We are either complicit or complacent.

$37 is a mere 0.06% of 59k. What are you claiming? That Elon Musk makes 277M/0.0006=461B a year?? Please, we should hate musk but let’s not lie or misinterpret the data.

MAGA morons are too busy monitoring which bathrooms trans people are using

“Not left vs right, but rich vs poor”
So basically exactly what the left is saying?
But I get it, as soon as you mention left, people will say it’s communism and stop listening.

I guess when revolution is profitable we will have one.

<Sharpens pitchfork>

It’s a class war

It’s hard for the brain to comprehend just how much 100 billion is. The fact many people are near or passed the 100 billion mark is in fact insane to me. That’s like spending $100 million dollars a day for a year and not running out of money for 3 years. 3 YEARS SPENDING $100,000,000 a day to run out of money. And if you account for interest it adds more days.

What I don’t understand is why blue and red ignore these sophisticated multi-million propaganda and social engineering tactics.

We’ve all known for years now that our phones are mainlining divisive bullshit straight into our brains.

Hate and fear is algorithmic. A fucking business.

Mockingbird was half a century ago. We are lost in the pixels—floating alone.

No gets a pass for their abhorrent behavior and stupidity, but pretending that regular people aren’t being manipulated into these moronic opinions is almost just as bad.

This is division by design, and war by deception. All of us are getting played.

When a child does something bad, we acknowledge that their upbringing and environment played a critical role. Systemic problems they face are factored and accounted for.

Why aren’t we doing this for each other? Where is our understanding the context?

The asset class has made it perfectly fucking clear that the only color that matters to them is green.

Red and blue have infinitely more in common than they do with the 1%.

Something has to change.

Fuck Reddit; fuck Google; fuck Apple and Microsoft…

We need to learn some humility quick.

Do we really think one half of the country would put guns on the other half?

If everything truly goes to shit, your neighbor is gonna be there for you. Regardless of your differences.

And if they aren’t, then fuck them too.

The US has been an oligarchy for quite a while. The only difference these days, is that they’re not even trying to hide it anymore. They do it all out in the open, and they’re even proud of it.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist. At the very least, they should be put out of society. They should not be allowed to own media, especially social media. They should not be allowed to donate or even vote. If you’re a billionaire, you need to fuck off to a desolated island. Go play with your yachts. You can only return if you give all your billions back to the society that made you rich to begin with.

The thing is though people on the right think they are the .1%’s best friend.

Not that it matters, but this math is conflating median income with net worth.

$37 is 0.06% of $59000, the median income.
$277,000,000 is 0.06% of $441,000,000,000, which is Elons *net worth*, not his income.

The median American Net Worth (in 2022) was $192,000. So it’s the equivalent of the median American buying the Presidency for **$120**.

I point this out not because I’m some pathetic bootlicker trying to defend the billionaires because their money isn’t income or is unrealized gains etc. I point this out because one of those pathetic bootlickers WILL point this out and try to use it to invalidate your argument.

You don’t have to exaggerate, the numbers are staggering enough on their own. This tweet would not have been one iota less impactful if the number was $120 instead of $37, and it wouldn’t be open to these stupid attacks.

EATCU.

Every day people post on Reddit proving they don’t understand net worth vs salary income

If I hear “it’s not right vs left” one more god damn time I’m going to lose my fucking mind. Yes, rich people and corporations are a GIANT part of the problem, but don’t act like our fellow peasants are blame free.

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