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@amelia_tweetz That’s brilliant! Yes yes yes! Tax everyone that makes over $250,000 100%! And make everything free for the rest of us! Plus we could all get like $10,000 a month in UBI!! Life would be so cool then! We could laugh, play, relax … let’s do this!!

Has anyone realized that if we taxed millionaires and billionaires by the same tax rate as the early 20th century, we would eliminate the national debt, be able to have free healthcare, school lunches would be free, community college would be free, and we’d still have a surplus within 5yrs.

@BobFakeNameEsq When democrats are in office inflation goes through the roof, the world sees us as a joke so the despots flex their muscles. Crime goes up illegal immigrants rape our daughters (who have to compete against boys in sports) our taxes go up and we can’t afford food.

American politics is binary. 1. You vote for Democrats 2. You don’t If you’re in Group 2, you are actively making the country worse. This is very simple. I don’t care to hear your justifications. Group 1 is morally superior to Group 2 100% of the time.

@eclairification Congratulations! You’re a 1%er. Thats how many earn $7.25.

the federal minimum wage is still 7.25. I am 34 and have never made more than 20k/yr, rarely more than 15. it’s really important that i, as a working person oppressed by capitalism, follow news and politics coverage written by people paid 6 figures to live in the culture city.

@invis4yo It’s only in the past 100 yrs of human history that we haven’t had to spend literally every waking hour working for survival. You’re welcome.

The concept of working 40 hours per week for the rest of your life just to afford basic necessities is genuinely insane.

@qwertykilledjfk @OrevaZSN You’re not forced to stay here

“No one is forcing you to work at that job you hate.” This is the biggest multi-generational lie capitalism has ever claimed.

@beyond_capital That’s why you should have 3-6 months of living expenses in liquid savings. Grow up.

You’re not two paychecks away from a private jet. You’re two missed paychecks away from food stamps. Stop defending billionaires. They’re not defending you.

@clairebubblepop They are human beings like everyone else. They follow the same 2 out of 10 rule every other group of humans ever to have existed does.

Can someone on the right explain to me like I’m 5yr, what’s your fascination with backing £Billionaires like they give a fuck about you? I don’t get it.

@muheediva01 Feminism killed chivalry.

I miss when men just organically took care of women. I’m not talking about financially but in general. You see a woman putting air in her tyres & immediately take over. Heavy groceries? You carrying them. With no expectation of anything in return. No motives, just men.

@cyb3rgyk @Nithya_Shrii Poverty is caused by lack of high school education and/or lack of 2 parent household and/or lack of employment. Poverty is 100% solvable. Easily. Inexpensively.

Police DO NOT REDUCE CRIME. Housing, employment, food, REDUCE CRIME.

@Nithya_Shrii Agreed! But employment is the vehicle by which the other things are provided. Add to that 2 parent household and a high school diploma and you are virtually guaranteed not to live a life of crime.

@nxt888 Losing 27 million soldiers is not a measure of victory. It’s a measure of sacrifice at best and incompetence at worst.

They teach their children that America won World War II. Which is, and this is important, not technically false but is also a form of organized forgetting. The Soviet Union lost 27 million people defeating Nazi Germany. Twenty-seven million. The Eastern Front was the war. What happened in Western Europe after D-Day was, from a military scale perspective, the closing chapter. Americans know Pearl Harbor. They know D-Day. They know Hiroshima. They do not, in general, feel in their bones the weight of 27 million Soviet dead as a fact that shaped the outcome of a war they believe they won. This isn't ignorance. It's curation. History gets curated to produce a specific psychological output: we are the people who save the world. We showed up, we sacrificed, we won, we rebuilt Europe with the Marshall Plan, we were generous in victory. This narrative, repeated for eighty years, produces citizens who experience American power as inherently benevolent by historical nature. And those citizens then cannot understand why anyone resists it.

@MelatKirosCO What are you willing to pay for Medicare for all and cancelling medical debt?

Yep. We’re gonna win a trifecta in 2028, but if we don’t use it to pass Medicare for All, cancel all medical debt, and break up big medicine, we’re handing 2032 to Republicans and their next Trump-ish figure. We can do big things. This is the long game and we need to lock in.

@OrevaZSN You’re not being robbed if you choose to give someone money for something you want. The money comes from consumers not employees.

You do not earn a billion dollars. You steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a farmer. That money comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work. Stop worshipping hoarders who are just really good at wage theft.

@HorrorGorl And because it starved hundreds of millions of its own citizens.

You hate communism because mainstream media told you to

@KerryBurgess I don’t think Europeans have any idea how little Americans care if they are liked or not.

I don't think Americans have any idea just how badly they are viewed in Europe. Without any doubt, the US is considered by the majority of ordinary Europeans to be a bigger threat to Europe than Russia or China...

@D162Michele @Chiaan_za The freedom to criticize my government on social media.

@Chiaan_za What freedom do YOU have?

What is it about communism that makes Westerners suddenly become historians, economists, and philosophers all at once? What are you afraid of? free healthcare? 🇨🇳

@DroidLiberator Yeah that and it’ll starve the population as it has done every other time it’s been tried but hey why not?

It would end billionaires and the very concept of money, and they hate that

@haugejostein 🤣🤣 the US capitalist system has produced more wealth, prosperity and freedom than any system in history. Kinda why Norway EMULATED it! 🤣🤣 And ps … Norway doesn’t allow millions of immigrants to jump on the welfare train so there’s that 🤷‍♂️

It's socialism — not capitalism — that creates prosperity. Norway has one of the strongest welfare systems in the world. In Singapore, most people live in housing built by the government. In Luxembourg, social spending as a share of GDP is among the highest in the EU. Most countries that score well on this chart do so because they have socialist policies in place that increase social mobility and reduce economic precariousness.

@omgsidewalks Zactly!!

To be honest, a lot of "mental health issues" disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn't affect mental health is privilege.

@Tekeee I could hire an unqualified 24 yr old today making that if they can pass a drug and background test.

Rent for one bedroom is $1,700. That means you need over $4,600 a month just to qualify. Show me the 24 year old making $71,000 a year for a starter apartment. I’ll wait