• @xantoxis
    link
    English
    914 days 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/him]
      link
      fedilink
      324 days 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
      link
      English
      194 days ago

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

      • @Eheran
        link
        74 days ago

        For real? I always took it more literally?

        • Pennomi
          link
          English
          44 days ago

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

          • unalivejoy
            link
            fedilink
            English
            33 days ago

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

      • The Snark Urge
        link
        English
        64 days 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.

  • @DaMonsterKnees
    link
    134 days ago

    What in the blue applesauce fuck is this guy trying to say? That’s some Newsmax worthy logic right there. Fuck that guy.

  • @paultimate14
    link
    114 days ago

    I’m trying to verify these numbers and I’m not finding much.

    The closest I can find to a source is that these were claims from Moshe Elad in articles in Tablet Magazine and Algemeier.

    In Mashal’s case, he was the treasurer of Hamas at the time and Elad seems to be just attributing the entirety of the organization’s assets to him personally.

    I’d be really interested to see if anyone else can find more concrete proof of this claim than I could.

  • @phoneymouse
    link
    23 days ago

    Glad to hear Israel is helping rid us of toxic billionaires. Now do Bill Ackman, Daniel Lubetzky, Daniel Loeb, Joseph Sitt, Len Blavatnik, Elon Musk