Astroturfers working overtime to make a walking corpse look good

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    6 months ago

    They’re definitely not, but even if they increase taxes on billionaires, it won’t be nearly enough. Most likely, they increase taxes and provide one of another myriad accounting loopholes to make sure their masters actually make more money in the end. The libs will eat it up as “biden shows he is tough on billionaires, now you have to vote for him!” and the rich get richer.

    To be fair, I would say the appropriate amount to tax them would be “until they aren’t billionaires” anymore.

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    6 months ago

    The White House is likelier to go down in flames than it is to adequately tax the very upper classes that it serves to protect. I won’t hold my breath.

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    6 months ago

    Even if he does this and turns the US into a utopia, which he won’t, he deserves to rot in hell for facilitating a genocide. The people who support this are caricatures of sakai’s book but at least the people in those books got something out of betraying the global working class.

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      Facilitating the current genocide is sadly a small part of his CV. The damage he has done goes back to the time when he opposed bussing on segregationist grounds. I am sure you can find his fingerprints on every American atrocity since then. Though the Israeli crimes taking place under his watch as the president does make his role more pronounced.

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        6 months ago

        Yep, this is what I have been thinking as well. It’s not that netanyahu is putting Biden in a tough place or manipulating him or some other bullshit people come up with to promote the idea of american innocence. Perhaps enjoying might be too strong a term, but Biden feels like he is putting the “darkies” in their place. In his head there is a racially hierarchy, and a lot of liberals agree that the Palestinians upended that in October. This is therefore “punishment”. Also he fought to get the Iraq war. He loves imprisoning and murdering brown and black people.

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      6 months ago

      The only people who would believe him are the people who benefited from the Indian Residential fake school Holocaust that became the Nazi Holocaust in some way, the European immigrants who gained free land and government welfare from the thievery of Indigenous people, and the people who benefited from debt trapping and free riding that Bretton Woods Institutions supported. Those types of people will be the racist backward group within the European diaspora communities who benefited so much from free stuff from their free riding governments that they will stay loyal like obedient dogs.