• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Only as long as those people keep pretending.

    In reality everyone knows we can just do whatever.

    So executing the rich and forcefully redistributing their wealth is a valid public policy now

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      2 days ago

      I mean, we’ve been trying to do other things, but they won’t play nice. I guess we need to exterminate a few, then offer the rest the opt-in to pay higher taxes as an alternative.

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        2 days ago

        The landlords that were holding the Chinese economy hostage were given a chance to relinquish their properties, then they executed the ones who wouldn’t.

        It’s only fair we give them an opportunity to surrender.

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          2 days ago

          We’ve given them plenty of opportunity. We tried to pass something closer to universal health care, and they shot it down. We tried to raise the minimum wage, they shot it down. Tried to relive student loans, tried to make housing more affordable, nothing.

          They have had their warnings.