• Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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      7 months ago

      my dude, hope you can find reliable comfortable safe affordable shelter soon

      stay safe and sane!

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      7 months ago

      When he said “we’ll give them a check” he meant taxpayers, not himself. He is too smart to pay taxes no doubt.

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        He is too smart to pay taxes no doubt.

        More like born rich to pay someone smart enough to avoid paying taxes.

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      7 months ago

      We’re spending about that much per day right now pissing away western hegemony in Iran. pity, that money could do so much more good as UBI.

      In fact, I’d argue we should increase federal income taxes on the billionaires to 80%, then use the proceeds to give every US citizen free healthcare, and outlaw homelessness by building public housing to place them in if someone needs/wants it.

      If billionaires such as this guy don’t like that, I’m sure the good people of Uganda would gladly take them in considering the great value they add to a society.

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    7 months ago

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

    • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
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      There’s literally no downside to overeating if you’re a rich fuck. Your money buys you sex, companionship, friendship, the best medicine and doctors in the world (all of this is in air quotes), whatever your shallow heart desires. They don’t go for anything beyond the surface, it’s all they care about and know, because they’re all sociopaths.

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      7 months ago

      I’m convinced it’s a weird power thing. Like forcing someone to suck your dick knowing full well youre disgusting.

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    7 months ago

    A very, “in the coming collapse we will target you and your entire class. Only then will you feel a quarter of the oppression you’ve dealt to the entire world. There will be no escape.” to all billionaires.

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    Yes, they’re all horrible, every single one. Any amount of power makes people more apathetic, and more fearful, even just a middle manager role at some middling company. The more power, the worse. These monsters are fearful, fearful that someone will kill them, or take their power, and that no one will ever love them for who they are instead of their money. They’re apathetic, they care about no one but themselves, not even their own family. They’re egotistical, some to the point of believing they are doing their god’s work on earth and can do no wrong. They’re also criminals, some directly, but all through the people who manage their money.

    Billionaires are horrible, horrible people, no one should want anything to do with them, much less look up to them. Never defend a billionaire, they would never defend you.

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      If they’re souch better than the rest of us I’m sure they’ll figure it out. Now that they’ve done everything that’s possible in our society let them level up somewhere else. It’s for their own good. It’s a psychiatric disorder to keep accumulating. Recruit them to the CIA and send them to Iran and NK to soak up all the wealth there to destabilize those societies…

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    7 months ago

    “Billionaire businessman John Catsimatidis lives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York City. He has resided in the same 14th-floor apartment at Fifth Avenue and 63rd Street for over 20 years, and also purchased a home in East Quogue, NY, according to source 2 and source 4.”

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    7 months ago

    The most heinous part is he would ABSOLUTELY not even pay the $8.13 a day. He’d rage and fight it in court for several thousand times what it would cost to just pay it.