benjamin (giggling)
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@gigglingben
he/him, former H&A giggler, freelance image writer, voice-over 4 hire, mo' keeper, the mr miyagi of button pushers, my podcast “19 in 89” via link below
This discovery made by a grad student at the College of Charleston is about our country’s terrible legacy, but with the historians trying to piece together the truth, it's also a story of the country’s promise. @JenBerryHawes propublica.org/article/how-gr…
Some time ago we copped a lot of flack and hate on this hellsite for repeating that collectively, billionaires and the mega-wealthy are a pack of cunts. Everyone wanted to tell us about a great and philanthropic wealthy person they knew. Yet, we are unmoved. And the latest bullshit in the Atlantic Ocean only proves it. Why? Because as a group, these people could solve most global suffering and the climate crisis, but collectively they do not. Collectively, they slap each other on the back for building rockets and submersibles and bigger and bigger yachts, and even if they don’t do those things themselves, they don’t call out those who do. They don’t use their enormous clout to tell others of their kind to wake the fuck up and change the world. Sure, lots of them give to charity, and sometimes anonymously. But charity is merely the failure of taxation systems, because if governments taxed the mega-wealthy properly, there would be plenty of government funds to distribute fairly and generously to all in need. So philanthropy itself is a fucked-up power trip by people without the expertise to make those decisions because they’re unelected, and who are subject to the whims of lobbyists and their own often-inadequate preferences. Talk about believing yourself omnipotent. All over the world, people now feel sorry for a group of arseholes who were doing nothing more than ghoulishly spying on a silent, solemn mass grave. The mega-wealthy could, if they gave a shit, stop paying the best accountants in the world to avoid their rightful tax, and pay their taxation generously. Then their governments could use the funds they pay to fund domestic violence shelters for abused women or make university free for all poorer students. But nope. They’d rather hang on to every fucking cent they can, then palm some of it off as they see fit rather than as their nation would decide. Then they buy up the media to ensure the angry messages about what they’re doing (like this one) never see the fucking light of day except on this hellsite (which they’ve also bought, and could shut us down just for this fucking tweet). As a class, the mega-wealthy are running a huge rort, and a lot of people are falling for it. The rort is convincing the rest of us they’re generous and decent souls, which is a big fucking laugh. They do nothing that isn’t for their own benefit, even if that benefit is convincing themselves they’re reasonable humans, or bleating about their donations to reduce the chances of the rest of us taking up pitchforks. Fuck them all. Nothing will change until people stop giving a shit what rich people do and stop reading media which glorifies fucking pricks. Stop looking for that fucking sub and give the huge sums of money saved to someone to feed some hungry children. Who gives a fuck about those cunts in a tin can. The end. #NewsCorpse
Barbara Pocock crucifies TPB’s Peter de Cure for not having even considered the possibility that PwC are breaching the Act in acting “honestly & with integrity”, & for refusing to impose a fine. Pocock: “Why no fine? The average tax payer faces a fine!”🔥🔥🔥 #SenateEstimates
@David_Speers Then stop inviting the journalists who help fuel this onto #Insiders You know exactly who they are, who they work for and what they support If you really meant this, you wouldn't platform the very journalists and media outlets that do this to him Why not walk your big talk?
Here's me. "What is the point of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese?" theshot.net.au/general-news/w…
