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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 day ago (26 children)

Why did they photoshop the miserable Mitt Romney dinner picture

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago

Oh my, his anguished face. This is a work of art.

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[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 96 points 1 day ago (22 children)

Incoherent take. The right is a tool the billionaires use to take shit away from the rest of us.

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think this meme is clearly made for the average American that sees politics as "left vs. right" being "Dems vs. Republicans".

I don't think it's referring to "the left" as anti capitalist here. It's meant to appeal to normies.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

But bringing people over from the right is important and attacking them is counterproductive.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

on a similar, related, note, integrating young men into society and not estranging them by telling them that they're the worst, is also important to have a coherent society.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Well, when they stop attacking us for believing in human rights, maybe we can have a dialogue.

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Exactly, the issues we are diametrically opposed on cannot afford compromise. You can't compromise on whether or not trans people deserve to exist. You can't compromise on whether all school children deserve to eat. You can't compromise on the opposition of fascism, racism, and bigotry. These people can get on the right side of morality or they can get fucked and I'll tell every one of them to their face now that the other shoe is dropping on it. They have been offered the open hand of reason and discussion since at least 2015. They spat in our face for a decade. Now they get the fist.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not an excuse for mystification.

Also I'm pretty sure most right wing people consider themselves "moderate" or "independent" anyway so it's not like they'll feel attacked if we correctly blame the right for its crimes

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Can confirm. Interview a con for my class and he was dead set that he's a centrist. Did have a single left opinion.

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[–] TheMightyCat@lemm.ee 36 points 1 day ago

That is exactly why its Right vs Left

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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.

at this point i'm actually convinced they're not doing this to enrich themselves.

they're doing it to crush the population, to keep it living paycheck-to-paycheck, so they can't afford an uprise when they need to fight back.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meaning these billionaires are doing all this work to save an extra $0.04 on every dollar of income.

$0.04 for every dollar of income doesn't sound like much until you're talking about a billion dollars, in which case it's $40 million.

That's a whole extra yacht!

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

I refuse to believe that Elon Musk is human

[–] Taco2112@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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