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.
Whenever I see the 1% or 99% numbers when discussing wealth inequality, this fact is the first thing that comes to mind. We need to use decimal points to get to the real ones in power. 1% contains a lot of people who have money, but are still out of the loop as the rest of us, or as Carlin said, “not in the Club”. They are millionaires, but like they say, the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion.
And that’s US - many Americans are in the 1% in worldwide numbers, with rough income numbers being around half a million income. Again, they may or may not be comfortable depending on their expenses, but having money doesn’t mean you have power. It’s the .1 that is the beginning of that, and the .01 is moving the pieces for everyone.
(The numbers are just estimates, there’s gray areas everywhere, the point is the top people want us to be yelling at the top middle and ignore what they do.)
Bingo. My entire circle is 1-5%ers, we are privileged and comfortable and not saying we’re not part of the problem. But we’re powerless. Start by eating the richest, by the time you get to me I’m going to guess there won’t be a problem any more…
“Powerless”, but how many sets of guns/armor can your circle buy? 1000? 10,000? They’re still astonishingly poor and closer to homelessness or kidnapping to El Salvador than being rich. Better to pick a side in the class war, and doing nothing is picking oppression. Eating the rich also includes non-rich wealthy class-traitors.
Care to help payoff some of my medical debt?
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Exactly. Millionaires aren’t the problem. That’s why I can’t stand these thought-terminating clichés like “eat the rich.”
Someone with even several hundred million to their name is dirt poor compared to billionaires.
When people say eat the rich, I think they generally mean to start from the top.
Millionaires aren’t rich, they’re “well off”. (Or maybe not even, it’s possible to have 1M+ in assets and be struggling financially)
Being rich is a completely different lifestyle. Like you never even think about money, and get people to do your grocery shopping and stuff. Megayachts and private jets, etc.
Well, I guess that depends on how one defines “rich.” To me, it means someone whose passive income exceeds their spending. What you’re describing, I’d call “wealthy - which is one or two steps above that.
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.
People snuck into a military airbase and spray painted an RAF plane the other day and got away with it.
They didn’t get away with it (not yet anyway) - six people have been arrested:
BBC News
Two more arrests after break-in at RAF base
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjrln22e3w2o
The rich aren’t accessible, but their property sure is awfully flammable.
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
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?
THIS ARTICLE IS FROM 2015 A DECADE AGO IT HAS ONLY GOTTEN WORSE SINCE THEN
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.
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.
And they all have addresses.
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.
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
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%.
I agree with those ideas too.
Let’s start with stopping Billionaires. Once someone gets to $999,999,999 they are awarded a plaque that states something along the lines of “Yay, you won Capitalism (or, frankly, corporatism)” and force them to divest themselves from all companies and stocks etc and live on their ranch in Aspen and live off the almost Billion. Any income that ends up topping their financial worth over a Billion is taxed at 100%
Income isn’t how theyre taxed, but I get your point.
People talk about the Harambe timeline, but Citizens United is when the shit started going sideways.
It’s going to take the boondocks saints taking these people out one by one like Luigi before anything meaningful happens. They only care about their life, let’s remove it from the equation.
We should eat them all
wasn’t there some billionaire that ran for president, spent hundreds of millions and got like <1% of the vote?
Yeah Michael Bloomberg bought his way through the rest of the primary debates then when it came time for the primary vote nobody wanted him.
That’s the one!
Bloomberg spent nearly $1 billion on his three-month presidential campaign
So my next question is:
Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House
Just how effective is advertising in the presidential race when you can spend a billion and go no where?
Conservatives vote out of fear. They lie awake at night terrified of their son having to play sports agains a trans boy. Advertising these moron fears is a lot easier than advertising a plan to make things better. But also Michael Bloomberg had no plan to make things better, at least for us lowly constituents.
He was just dumb. He spent unwisely. The best things in life are free. Like the support of moguls like Murdoch from Fox News.
Perot did pretty well on his runs iirc. But I don’t think he’s the one you were talking about.
Yep sorry it was Michael Bloomberg
