All I ever get asked for by the politicians I vote for (the Democrats) is money.
Maybe I’m subscribed to the wrong things.
That chick should be mad. 3-months salary for him would be like $27 billion.
If you assume 7% annual rate of return on that $230 billion, then 3 months “salary” would be a little over $4 billion.
That being said, as others have pointed out, the “3 months salary” guideline is just propaganda from DeBeers and no one in their right mind should ever spend that type of money on a piece of jewelry.
That’s a DeBeers diamond cartel propaganda rule of thumb.
He should’ve used antimatter as a ring
I’m sorry 5 million? For a ring? I’d feel insane amounts of guilt wearing a ring that cost that much
For me I think the guilt would be overshadowed by fear. Fear that somebody might shoot me in the face for that ring.
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But does the armed militia get paid $5 mil? Sorry, that’s just the fear talking
I imagine if these people were capable of feeling guilt, much of their behavior would be different
That’s difference
They don’t have guilt
The richest people in world don’t feel guilt.
Even if we tax Jeff bezos 30% realistically it won’t make any difference because Trump and his cronies will just blow it on an even more ridiculous ICE budget or build more concentration camps or bomb Iran again.
The Big Beautiful Bill isn’t really a tax cut. It is mostly comprised of deferred taxes. They only slashed a trillion from the budget. The rest is financed through increased debt.
The BBB will add over 3 trillion to the deficit which the public will pay one way or another.
Either higher taxes down the road, increased inflation or through higher interest rates… Most likely a combination of all three. But it will be paid.
The tax cuts for the 1% are real; it’s just the ones for everybody else that are fake.
That’s why we need a national wealth cap. Forget the tax. We need a maximum wealth. You simply are not allowed to have more than a certain amount of money. We need bounded capitalism. Capitalism can be a very useful system. It has a lot of merits over central planning. But in any kind of machine or system that humans devise, when is it ever beneficial to let any parameter increase to infinity? Let an engine spin too fast, and it will tear itself to pieces. Build an irrigation system that delivers an unbounded amount of water, and your crops drown. A well insulated house heated by a powerful furnace can bring comfort. Let it burn an arbitrarily large amount of fuel, and you will be cooked alive in your own bed. No system that humans design for our needs and comforts works when one of its core values is allowed to increase without bound. Inevitably this throws the whole system out of balance and leads to disaster.
And what is our economy and society if not an elaborate machine? A way of distributing resources, assigning work, etc? Allowing people to earn different amounts of money is a very useful thing. It encourages people to produce useful goods and services. It encourages innovation. It incentivizes getting an education and contributing to society. We’re not perfect at any of these. Market mechanisms have many flaws. But our system does have a lot of merit over simply assigning everyone the same flat wage for all work done. It is useful to allow people to accrue modest fortunes. But that useful mechanism, completely unbounded? It unbalances society and tears us apart.
1000x the median household income. We set that as the maximum allowable fortune. 1000 times the average family wage. That I believe is the place to set such a cap. This would be approximately $80 million. This is so much money, that even the highest paid wage workers - people like brain surgeons - if they work a long career, choose to live in a literal cardboard box on the sidewalk, and invest every penny they make? They would struggle to reach that cap before they die of old age, even if they live very long lives. The only way to earn more money than this is to earn your wealth primarily by taking advantage of the labor of others.
Any money earned beyond this? Taxed at 100%. And at some point above this cap? Simply having that amount of money becomes a criminal offense. I want to make it a felony for someone to have a fortune over $1 billion. Mandatory minimum 20 year sentence for secretly amassing a fortune over $1 billion. Make Bezos and Musk give all their money away, flee the country, or blow their fortunes on the single greatest party in the history of the human race. Frankly I would be OK with any of these outcomes. But they cannot be allowed to retain these strategically dangerous fortunes. They have declared war on the rest of us. And it’s time we started responding in kind. We must wipe out the billionaires as an economic class entirely.
“There should be no billionaires” is not just a slogan. It is a concrete policy we could choose to enact.
true, plus he would still cut programs just to give himself, or the defense budget more money, and his personal SS force.
BuT hE’s A sElF mAdE mAn !
Then it’s time to unmake the man.
Let’s vote for…it.
Well this is awkward
Bernie needs to set up an alt account on Twitter where he pretends to be a Republican but reposts all these same messages.
The issue is left wing agenda gets de-prioritized (buried) or outright blocked since all social media is owned by billionaires and they want to maintain the current status quo.
We need to set up an indefatigable bot army to do all that and similar…
Bets on how likely that is? We haven’t even shown the ability to start anything simpler, so far…
I genuinely don’t understand how the ass backwards, Nazi right has random ass politicians with bot armies and the tech edge left can’t be bothered to actually talk to other people. Bot army should be our bread and butter!
Honestly? We’re so collectively tuned-in and on top of so much of the non-stop fuckery everywhere that we’re simply scared witless and sapped into a state of flotsam in the roaring deluge, for starters.
Hard to get a bead on anything in the churn, fellow sentient. 😭
And when its ended, take ALL the money back that they stole in various inventive ways
“Damn, why isn’t Bernie ramboing his way through the billionaires on his own??? Doesn’t he know that all of us bitching about him are too lazy to do it ourselves???”
THIS IS SPARTA!!!
im surprised he dint go there in his super yacht which was around 750million-1billion.
5 million dollar ring for that wife?
Sir Mix Alot would be ashamed. Silicone parts are made for toys
This roast is criminally underrated.
AFAIK in comparison to the median income the wedding only cost him 18,50$ relatively
Can the “leftists” in the room start pushing actionable rhetoric?
I agree that we should do something about the oligarchy too.
Maybe the liberal leaders that keep hogging the mic every local protest should give directions to the largest group of protesters in American history.
National wealth cap set at 1000x the median household income. Anything over this is taxed at 100%. This would be about $80 million today.
But for people who cheat on their taxes or try to amass a secret fortune well beyond the cap? Secretly amassing a fortune over $1 billion will be a felony with a mandatory minimum 20 year prison sentence.
I dont know, I think there is nothing but dead air from the liberal side. Its gross. More messaging for the DNC comes from nobodies like me then from the party itself. Sure I might be more authentic but ffs Im just one dude.
I watch the news cycle and you can basically tell when the GOP are gearing up because its just dead silence on the platforms I visit. Now, not “dead silence”. There are your typical memes, news articles, and reposts but never anything from the dnc itself. No top down messaging; no platforming small creators; no baiting of the right. What the DNC has done is made these strile online environments where the right can constantly come in and, basically, disturb the peace.
It has become so insane that now the far left is doing it too. Show me one leftist who will get in the same beat down brawls they do on this site, do that on Facebook, Twitter, or Truth. They cant because they’ve been expelled from those places.
Im ranting too much and getting to in my own head. This is just what I see.
The DNC is rudderless and has no media strategy. Their only media guys think they need to turn right wingers into left wingers and it just doesn’t work. If trump didnt flip you, youre never leaving the right.
We need to take the DNC over from the inside. We need to primary all of them.
Primary elections in general have a ridiculously low turnout rate, and that’s the first place the battle must be waged.
When you say “we” have you charged through the walls like the Kool Aid Man? Cuz’ I was just looking up my state and county offices to possibly run for something. It’s a pain in the ass, but it’s important. I’m tired of calling my House representative and getting ChatGPT-generated Republican talking points emailed back to me.
FWIW, I was there when GWB Jr. handed himself a 2nd term.
I was caught in the sudden fray when SWAT hanging off a mil-spec troop vehicle shot a 70+ yr old Vietnam vet in the crotch point-blank for the crime of sitting down at an otherwise non-violent protest.
I was there when four of those fascist pig-fuckers beat, zip-tied, and hoisted (by those ties, while she screamed that they were breaking her wrists) a 14yr-old, 80lb girl named “Zen” who was happily passing out handmade “Students For Peace” buttons from a wicker basket. (one that I’d handed her mere minutes before, when she told me it was her first protest and she wanted to help)
I’ve been ardently, passionately politically active for decades in a wide array of impactful, intentional efforts, and I’m genuinely surprised they haven’t black-bagged me yet —even before the Turd Reich seized power.
Yes. I’ve stepped up. Countless times, without fail, and with careful forethought as a change-oriented group. I’ve been shot at, chased, tazed, maced, arrested w/o cause or explanation or repercussions (for them, ofc), assaulted, gleefully threatened with suicide-by-cop, etc.
Thafuq do I expect any of us to do, if after all that I’ve been through, and this is still where we are?
I don’t wish any of that on my fellow thinking, caring citizens. Something’s gotta give, though. Before the only ones left are those fucksticks blithely gulping down the fetid cum-slurry of this regime.
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Now, on a lighter note, I was working security when that random sparrow alighted on Bernie’s podium in Portland what seems like forever and a dream ago. That was the last time I felt a profound shred of hope for this country —and, by extension, human civilization’s future. 🥲
I’ll be honest, I’ve been giving it some thought, but feel a bit lost on how to get started.
Thanks for that, definitely going to take a look at those. Cheers!
If he doesn’t plan to create a new party he better be silent. Democrat made it clear what they stand for, and their voter also happy with it. So unless he create a new party then nothing will change.
Democrat made it clear what they stand for
Their meltdown over Mamdani is pretty damning
New parties are useless at the federal level so long as elections are First-Past-The-Post. Even the Ross Perot’s Reform Party in 1992 and 1996 only served as a spoiler for the Republican party, and his was an immensely strong attempt at forming a new party, featuring a reasoned platform which Perot showcased with charts every night on television.
This is why Musk’s America party is laughable, even if he really, really meant it, and offered a platform of sound governance.
While Sanders caucuses with the Democratic party, and they make him sit at the kids’ table with AOC and the other Socialist Democrats, he has been able to get a lot of legislation in or blocked with skilled use of Senate procedure.
But the current situation is well beyond even his powers of procedural mischief. We can’t rely on officials or left-wing news media to save the US from oligarchy and eventually monarchy.
Violent or non-violent, we’ll have to do it ourselves, and it’s almost certain that if we pressure them nonviolently (say with massive demonstrations or with a general strike), then Trump will try to do January 6th once again, probably with more guns and explosives. He’ll certainly bring out his ICE Stormtroopers (now in fancy armor) and try to invoke the military.
So we need to expect a fight, and preferably do what the lords did with John of England, make it super clear that he is out-manned and out-armed and will be given no quarter, if it comes down to violence. (Even the Magna Carta took a few tries)
27+ dead little girls at Camp Mystic has shown us it’s ugly already, but non-violence makes it more difficult for bystanders to dismiss the resistance as terrorists. (FOX News, etc. will paint us as terrorists anyway.)
I don’t know how we get to an organized general strike at speed (usually it takes years, and we don’t have years), and there are groups like indivisible that are trying. I don’t know if it’s enough, especially once ICE gets its massive infusion of equipment, manpower and fancy trenchcoats.
