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So another way to look at it is that by eliminating a few thousand parasites, we can reshape our political landscape...
Just 158 examples
And this article is 10 years old. It has gotten so much worse.
Citizens United was the final straw in the downfall of America democracy.
It's been inevitable since.
Unless it's overturned it's over, and I don't think they can overturn it.
Citizens United
Corporations have been 'people' since the 1886 USSC decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.
Yet somehow, unlike most people, they've escaped having to go to jail when they commit crimes. I'd call that an unfair advantage.
I'll believe a corporation is a "person" when Texas (or Alabama, Florida, South Carolina etc) executes one of them
THIS ARTICLE IS FROM 2015 A DECADE AGO IT HAS ONLY GOTTEN WORSE SINCE THEN
Should figure out where they live and protest on their street instead of burning down the local 7/11.
The only access to them is media in the backroom or private event held by rich asking what do you think of protests on main street because you can't get close to their property and if you can they are probably in another house
People snuck into a military airbase and spray painted an RAF plane the other day and got away with it.
Rich people get complacent. They're so proud of themselves, so fat and satisfied. They can't imagine that anyone like us would ever get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food.
The rich aren't accessible, but their property sure is awfully flammable.
An oligarchy is what America has been for over a decade now officially. Every politician is bought and sold, told to vote on every bill by the companies lobbyists that line their pockets. Every vote is controlled by mass propaganda on every network and every corporate social media.
But we're a democracy, right?
158 families isn't much to feed 300 million starving people. We need rules on who gets to eat the 0.01%
Fuck that. First come, first serve. Get it if and while you can.
theres a literal golf course behind these mansions lol
Golf is such a perfect rich person sport. It wastes a ton of space, destroys local wilflife, the hardest part is done by the caddy (i.e. not the rich person), and at the end you feel like you accomplished something, but you've done absolutely fuck all other than show off your expensive shit.
Plus it gives you a nice excuse to get drunk and ride around in a tiny car like a little boy
The only reason to do it. Lol
And they have to have complete silence! It's not a sport at all, it's just showing off your clothes/clubs. Such weak ass players can't be heckled at all like any other real sport. LMAO.
We should eat them all
If my math is correct 158 families would be around .00005%. They have no clue what life is like for the average person yet they have so much influence. Gross.
The way to return democracy to the people is to limit the involvement of money. First step is to repeal "Citizens" United, the law that officially sold the US government to corporations and the wealthy under the guise of Freedom (as usual). Second, organizations (including but not limited to corporations) should be outright banned from political compaign contributions. Organizations aren't citizens. They can't vote. They shouldn't be allowed to pour money into elections.
It's not enough to reform campaign finance. We need to destroy the class of people behind this. We need to really wage class war, a class war of annihilation.
We need a national wealth cap. 1000x median household income. Anything more is taxed at 100%.
In the end, when Trump is certified as the modern day hitler, these families need to be held accountable…. Like the soldiers of the concentration camps.
There are only a few outcomes that would lead down that road, and while I hope for one of them, I am pretty convinced they'll all die happy and rich in their warm beds of old age after getting lots of plastic surgery and riding on lots of jets and jetskis
Fuck scotus. John Roberts is the most damaging traitor in American history.
They visit each others mansions so they can make sure they are still keeping up with the other billionaires.
if the people went after the wealthy first, they could use the spoils to fund the revolution
Gotten worse since 2015.