• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    It kind of is Right vs Left, tho, because Billionaires Welfare and Anti-Tax-the-Rich is a core policy stance on the Right.

  • Lit@lemmy.world
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    that is why, crash tesla stock so that Elon loan collateral will be cashed out by bank forcing Elon to pay tax.

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      the fucking left will never understand the need for fighting back in the class war. pointless to keep trying. they just don’t understand labor issues.

    • Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Class reductionism is a reactionary and deeply flawed analysis. The abolition of the class system alone will not bring with it the abolition of all other injustices if if no attention is given to those.

      This sort of post really brings out all the concavebrained centrists and red-brown alliance types who somehow think leftists and fascists aren’t axiomatically opposed to each other, as well as the whining brocialists who are happy to oppose the hierarchies that oppress them but will throw a shitfit if anybody points out any societal problems to which they could still be contributing.

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      8 hours ago

      But bringing people over from the right is important and attacking them is counterproductive.

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        7 hours ago

        Not an excuse for mystification.

        Also I’m pretty sure most right wing people consider themselves “moderate” or “independent” anyway so it’s not like they’ll feel attacked if we correctly blame the right for its crimes

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          Can confirm. Interview a con for my class and he was dead set that he’s a centrist. Did have a single left opinion.

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      You’re right and you’re wrong. The ‘right’ is a made up label for class traitors who have been tricked into supporting billionaires. It’s incredibly useful for the billionaires because they get the support and it divides the rest of us and we put our energy into the fake boogeyman instead of focusing our efforts on them.

      • Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        The right are the lackeys of the owning class and will fight the left regardless of the extent to which the left limits the scope of its engagement.

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        4 hours ago

        The left is intrinsically opposed to the existence of billionaires as a matter of principle, so generally speaking, no.

        How the fuck did all these dipshit enlightened centrists find their way onto lemmy???

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          How the fuck did all these dipshit enlightened centrists find their way onto lemmy???

          That’s very respectful of you

      • Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social
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        No, they use the culture war to divide and confuse people. Not because they want minorities to be respected, but to direct hate to gay and trans people, rather than them.

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          rainbow capitalism is mostly marketing towards polite liberalism. Homophobia/transphobia is their attempt to pit people against each other. Just like racism, it is not that these things didn’t exist before capitalism, but the exacerbation and use of it to divide the working class is what capitalists and reactionaries use.

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            You’re absolutely right, my example was not a good one. Although we are still not exempt from being used as pawns, even though we are often a little more educated about the methods that are being used to do so.

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            The left isn’t the issue, I’m saying the left has also been used as pawns. We are not beyond manipulation and we have absolutely been pitted against each other. This is a huge reason for all the infighting on the left.

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    We aren’t talking about massive tax breaks. That’s what’s insane.

    Currently SS is capped at ~$180k dollars @ ~5%. That means if you earn $180k, you pay 9k in SS tax. If you earn $2 billion you pay 9k in taxes.

    These greedy leeches are destroying one of the only semi-decent systems all next to no money from them personally.

    The actual tax increase from trump’s expiring tax cuts is also something like 4%. Meaning these billionaires are doing all this work to save an extra $0.04 on every dollar of income.

    They keep talking about the dangers and problems with debt, yet the blindingly obvious solution is a moderate increase in taxes. But instead of even broaching that subject, they are trying to also give themselves a tax cut while destroying social programs.

    It’s robbery, plain and simple.

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      Everyone should have to pay their fair share. Hell, I bet if they just did a flat 15-18℅ tax on everyone, middle class to the uber rich then we would have all the money for the programs like SS and medicare for all.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      Meaning these billionaires are doing all this work to save an extra $0.04 on every dollar of income.

      $0.04 for every dollar of income doesn’t sound like much until you’re talking about a billion dollars, in which case it’s $40 million.

      That’s a whole extra yacht!

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      It is not just saving money on taxes, but having desperate old people as cheap labor and pre-retirement people as customers for annuities. Particularly as desperate, cheap labor, since that helps push wages down for any sector that they could work in.

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      7 hours ago

      I 100% disagree with that statement. I might be in a bubble, but I’m in a bubble of amazing, kind and helpful people who go out and help the homeless, volunteer, etc. Community is first.

      Neoliberalism is a political and economic philosophy that emphasizes free-market capitalism, minimal government intervention in the economy, and the belief that economic freedom leads to social progress. It advocates for policies like deregulation, privatization, and reduced government spending.

      • UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I was referring specifically to your two party system and the errant belief that one of them is somehow “left” when it is a group of turbo capitalist corpo swine lobbyists which are only the better choice because they are not straight up fascist kleptocrats.

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    Like honestly, my slightly pedantic and rather uneducated take is that there is no right wing. Calling one party ‘right wing’ and the other ‘left wing’ implies that they are in some way comparable, two parts sides of one coin. They are not, and I suspect never were. The party to the left is on some level concerned with a good faith attempt at governance, however compromised. The party to the right has no interest in governance at all. On the contrary, they have a direct and specific interest in breaking down and carrying off the bricks and mortar of governance. In the US at the moment, the party to the right is doing quite literally that.

    My argument therefore is that calling a right wing group ‘political’, or right wing ideology a ‘political position’ is not only a bad idea, it is also inaccurate. Such an organisation is inherently anti-political and anti-state by extension. It is no more concerned with governing than thieves are concerned with the Highway Code when making their getaway, which appears to be exactly what is happening at present. Booooooo. Disqualified. Not a party, not fun, not political.

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    7 hours ago

    Ffs, i appreciate the sentiment but that’s a fucking shit Photoshop. This was when Romney dined with trump in 2016 at the Florida tat palace

    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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      6 hours ago

      Lol, I wondered what was wrong with elon. I like how when you zoom in you can see the scallops from the eraser circle.