• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com
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    5 天前

    It’s very concerning that the richest person to have ever lived is a full Blut und Boden fascist. This should be but probably won’t be a wakeup call to all decent people worldwide that something is very wrong with capitalism. And not just capitalism, but very advanced and deeply embedded capitalism. Musk is an evil fuck, and no amount of money can buy him a soul.

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    I had a thought about it.

    Elon Musk has 14 children.

    If you chop off his head, there will be 14 more billionaires. Elon Musk is the Hydra.

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    Tbh it doesn’t matter to me whether he’s a billionaire or trillionaire (of course there’s a huuge financial difference, but both is way too much already). He’s just the most prominent ugly symptom of capitalism. No permanent fix to prevent this unless we get rid of these systems.

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      You simultaneously said we should fix the system while not caring about the class that warped the system in the first place.

      You have to get rid of both. The system that allows the disparity and the wealth to warp it. If there is wild disparity it will always seek to bend the system further in its favor, and the only way to prevent that is to kill the disparity.

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        I didn’t read it that way. I read it as the difference between billionaire and trillionaire being irrelevant, neither should be a thing.

        The systems and the rich both need to go. I’d argue that those who disagree should too.

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        while not caring about the class that warped the system in the first place.

        No, I did not say that. I said they’re a symptom and that the magnitude of their property is not the main problem - the existence of accumulated property is. Of course we need to redistribute their wealth to the people. That’s part of the system change.

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    Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends.

    While I have no doubt that a lot of money would make my life better I know I have genuine friends who I’ve known for more than 30 years.

    He has none.

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      Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends.

      He’s absolutely got friends. They’re fucking awful people. But they’re in position to catapult him into the stratosphere.

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    Billionaires shouldn’t even exist. A trillionaire should be promptly taken out back and shot and all of his assets redistributed amongst the public.

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    We have a trillionaire, but we can’t afford to give universal health-insurance? The price of food and gas are skyrocketing too? We hand out tax cuts while there is skyrocketing national debt? The only thing we’re missing is a meeting of the Estates General and, then, you’d have the makings of the French Revolution.

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        This is horse shit.

        The government is not a business, its not (supposed to be) run like a business. It exists to provide needed things for its people that private entities can’t effectively do because those things cannot be effectively profitable for private businesses without causing harm to the life of its people.

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          Whatever you replied to is deleted, but i hate when a government says xyz program wasn’t profitable. Like fuck profit, was it working? Did it help the community? You dont need to make a profit on everything, but it should be an ultimate good for the country/community which will help it thrive and grow in a effective manner.

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            The OP post was something along the lines of “if its free, you are the product.”

            Which of course, applies to businesses, often selling ads or data.

            Nevermind also that the government is not “free”, we pay taxes to it. Taxes to fund these programs.