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@march4progress @ProudSocialist Isnt most of that the result of project mockingbird in the US?

@ProudSocialist I was a journalist back then when Ben Bagdikian wrote the book "The Media Monopoly." We used to have thousands of media owners before consolidation. It's extremely sad to see where we are today. amazon.com/Media-Monopoly…

Putting the common good over profit is the essence of socialism. Putting profit over people is the essence of capitalism. Without corporate media influence, people choose socialism over capitalism. This is why 6 corporations own 90% of the media to ensure people never wake up.

@AlexLikesCake1 @ProudSocialist As opposed to the media being owned by the state, which is the same difference anyway

@ProudSocialist 1)There’s no such thing as the common good. 2)Those 6 corporations are controlled by the govt

@TedRall There are no capitalist countries. There are socialist countries that employ some capitalist ideas

Name a successful capitalist one.

@Harold_2036 @MarkMotley43667 The US is a socialist country. It just operates, slightly, differently than China

@MarkMotley43667 China is a socialist country whose highest ideal is the striving towards communism. This is the explicit stated goal of the communist party of China.

The biggest cope of the 21st century is either ignoring China or pretending it’s something it isn’t.

@Harold_2036 @theactualrob Nothing is above the state in the US or in China. Both states are above the people

@theactualrob Prove capital is above the state in China

@Harold_2036 China isn’t communist. It’s fascist like the US

@Provokethoughtz Imagine believing $30 billion dollars just ends world hunger. How dumb are you?

If billionaires paid taxes, real taxes the way they used to Before Ronald Reagan changed it for them, and if farming practices changed from the factory farming model that the US loves and went to permaculture/ holistic agriculture, we would be able to feed everyone and rebuild infrastructure.

@tombos21 The answer is clearly no. You only get 1 chance. It’s not going to happen

The amount of people voting no on this is wild! The asymmetry of this bet is so obscene that "no" is philosophically unserious unless a $1,000 loss genuinely destroys you.

@RaeMieA @SuperChicken25 @k1rallik Yes you can. It shows when people have so many more interesting things to watch, late night tv is extremely boring and no one has watched for a long time

@SuperChicken25 @k1rallik That happened one time, on Johnny Carson’s last show, dipshit. You can’t compare the media landscape of today with one where there were like five channels to watch.

🚨 do you understand what happened to Stephen Colbert.. 24 hours after his final Late Show, Colbert hijacked a tiny public access channel in Monroe, Michigan with Jack White, Eminem, Jeff Daniels and Steve Buscemi. Now Paramount - the company that just cancelled his show - is mass-blocking every reupload worldwide via Content ID. And the deeper you dig, the worse it looks: - The finale pulled 6.74M viewers - a weeknight record over 11 years - Eminem cameoed as "Marshall, the fire marshal" to greenlight torching the set - The same day Trump posted an AI video of throwing Colbert into a dumpster, Colbert aired footage of himself burning a real one - Mayday Network and verified journalist Matthew Keys both got blocked globally - for sharing a community access show Paramount cancelled his show to silence him. Instead they handed him a Streisand-effect comeback 10x bigger than the show ever was.

@k1rallik No one has watched late night tv shows for at least a decade

@MetamateDaz 1) They don’t have billions of dollars. They have assets speculatively valued at billions of dollars (they’re assets aren’t really worth that much and if they tried to actually sell they would get significantly less 2) Their money combined couldn’t solve one of those problems

I genuinely don't understand people like Bezos and Musk. If I had billions of dollars, I would just start fixing everything. Homeless veterans sleeping on the streets? Not on my watch. Hungry children going to bed with empty stomachs? Hell no. They could be making life better but instead choose to build spaceships and data centers to pump stocks and destroy the planet

@FascistMusk Nobody in the US ever paid 70%. Marginal tax rates are meaningless and don’t change anything

The oligarchs really do think that all Americans are as ignorant as Maga. Crush the oligarchy. #TaxTheRich

@HawkEmDownChris False. It’s offensive that you even asked this

True or False: James Harden is better than Allen Iverson.

@DreamLeaf5 You’re forcing monopolies and large corporations to exist which will in turn create more of the things you fear. Minimum wage laws are dumb. What if I was independently wealthy and wanted to work for free. Shouldn’t I be allowed to do that?

How is this contradictory? It’s bad when big businesses and small businesses fuck over their workers.

@YourAnonNews It’s not the billionaire class thats the problem. It’s the trillionaire class in the federal govt. they are an enemy of the people

The USA is lost, and the rest of the world should continue on without them until they collectively pull their heads out of their asses.

@shellyscallions @TheRealTexHall @MetamateDaz I’m sure you consider new yearly iPhones and $1000s in dollars of clothes necessary to live also

@kylea92208627 @TheRealTexHall @MetamateDaz There are many more things needed to live than just food, and consider that one rich person will buy one person's worth of those things while the middle class equivalent of that amount of income would include many more people, and the tax burden is this higher. Not fair at all

Jeff Bezos capped his salary at $82,000. Not because he's modest or because he wanted what's best for society and his company but because salaries are taxed. Instead, he borrows against his $230 BILLION stock to fund his lifestyle UNTAXED No paycheck = no income tax. The he jumps on TV and said he pays his fair share of taxes. They think we're stupid.

@shellyscallions @TheRealTexHall @MetamateDaz Income tax burden is already unfair to the poor and immoral in general as it gives govt to much unchecked power over private citizens, especially poor and lower class, peoples lives. Again, it can just as easily be structured to target higher income and luxury taxes

@GunnelsWarren Not to defend musk, but if you believe this, you’re either a govt shill or extremely naive

Funny. I thought it was morally wrong for Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth more than $800 billion, to eliminate humanitarian aid that will cause 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet to die in the next 4 years.

@shellyscallions @TheRealTexHall @MetamateDaz It does not. You can also tax luxury items more while not taxing items people need to live like food (which isn’t included in sales taxes already)

@TheRealTexHall @MetamateDaz That just moves the main tax burden to the poor and middle class, dumbass