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I don't know. My elderly neighbor might be poor like me but his giant fucking Trump flag kind of makes me hope he dies because of Trump's policies, as well as miserable and alone.
I'll admit that's pure irrational spite politics. But the irrationality doesn't change how completely disinterested I am in joining forces with him against billionaires if he realizes he was wrong.
This is photoshopped… the picture was with mitt Romney and trump with his shiteating grin.. why the edit?
Right? There are now 1,000 images of these idiots together. Why doctor an old Mitt Romney photo?
Idk, same shit honestly.
What do you think "the left" is??
OP should have phrased it as "It's not Democrats vs Republicans; it's the 1% vs the 99%"
I'd love to see a poll of how people in the USA would answer that question.
Messaging aside, be aware that this photo is edited, Musk wasn't originally in it.
Wasn't it Ted Cruz originally?
EDIT: ah it was Mitt Romney.
As I live alone and pay $500 a month just to be able to see a doctor, I am more and more enraged yet disillusioned the older I get. This is not living—this is fascistic technofeudalism.
"this isn't right vs left, this is right vs left"
uh... okay?
The only war is a class war.
and what tool do we fight wars with?
guns.
No, this is Good vs Evil. Right vs Wrong. Truth vs Deception. But yeah, Billionaires are the dark half of those and develop extreme sociopathic megalomaniacal malignant narcissism apparently. How else can we explain it?
What these dumbasses don't realize is that they do rely on these things - every minimum or even low wage worker absolutely needs these services to make ends meet. These people aren't just evil, they're stupid.
Why did they photoshop the miserable Mitt Romney dinner picture
Oh my, his anguished face. This is a work of art.
Incoherent take. The right is a tool the billionaires use to take shit away from the rest of us.
Fight a class war, not a culture war.
And you, who thinks you are in the “upper class” by making 500k a year. You’re not, you are among the poor.
We fight the people who own billions, not you.
500k a year is a doctor or something. Someone who actually contributes to society. That's someone who should be rich because of how hard they worked to get there plus how important they are to our society. Elon musk shouldn't get paid a fucking dime.
I mean technically how they make that 500k matters. If it's all just being a landlord we are definitely fighting them too.
guns
That is exactly why its Right vs Left
We aren't talking about massive tax breaks. That's what's insane.
Currently SS is capped at ~$180k dollars @ ~5%. That means if you earn $180k, you pay 9k in SS tax. If you earn $2 billion you pay 9k in taxes.
These greedy leeches are destroying one of the only semi-decent systems all next to no money from them personally.
The actual tax increase from trump's expiring tax cuts is also something like 4%. Meaning these billionaires are doing all this work to save an extra $0.04 on every dollar of income.
They keep talking about the dangers and problems with debt, yet the blindingly obvious solution is a moderate increase in taxes. But instead of even broaching that subject, they are trying to also give themselves a tax cut while destroying social programs.
It's robbery, plain and simple.
Medicare can't help a guillotine