• @xantoxis
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    912 months ago

    “Abolish billionaires” doesn’t mean “kill anyone you want as long as you catch a couple of billionaires in the explosion.” In fact, it doesn’t mean “kill billionaires”. It means tax them until they’re not billionaires.

    This is gross.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      322 months ago

      Torres is a Zionist, he doesn’t actually believe what he’s saying here, he’s trying to use a smug “gotcha” against the left.

    • Pennomi
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      192 months ago

      Even “eat the rich” simply means “tax them until they pay their fair share” instead of cannibalism.

      • @Eheran
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        72 months ago

        For real? I always took it more literally?

        • Pennomi
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          42 months ago

          Ew, no. Billionaires are obviously the least tasty of humans.

          • unalivejoy
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            32 months ago

            They have plenty of time and money, so they can afford to work out. They’ll be super tough.

      • @Gradually_Adjusting
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        62 months ago

        The worst part is that their assets are going to simply be bestowed on whoever whatever entity it was willed, and the accumulation itself is the problem, so even the actual supposed benefit is zero. Killing billionaires only makes the actual disparity more inefficient, you have to break up that wealth in a real way for it to be good at all.