Oh no that would be terrible
Posted Oct 24, 2019, 12:50 AM UTC
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How the fuck do you foretell some leftist apocalypse and phrase it that poorly?
It's like it was written by a 5 yearold.
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Just look at POTUS' letter to Turkey. Written by a below average 5 year old.
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“Today they take out the talking head garbage. Tomorrow they liberate the worker.”
“...oh no?”
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The apocalypse is coming, it will bring with it:
Shuffles deck
More equality...
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I mean, literally yes it would. A total collapse of society would be drastically more egalitarian.
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I think that is why zombie movies were so popular in the early 2000s, because running from zombies is actually preferable to being in debt...
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I can shoot a zombie. I cant shoot debt :(
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Fight club intensifies
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Chppity Choppity, we comin for that property!
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First they came for the Zuck and I did not speak out-because I was not a reptile
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Or a parselmouth.
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Not my zucchini patch!
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Bitch we're doing that NOW.
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No. Don't. Stop.
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I had a hard time coming up with a title and this was my 2nd choice!
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Yeah, no, I'm pretty sure we're aware of what we're doing.
The rich should be scared.
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Wait, why Gates and not Bezos?
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First they came for the billionaires, and I was like "fuck yeah dude let's do this shit" because I was not a billionaire...
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Why would the left come after Bill Gates? I guarantee you this person would call Bill Gates a leftist if he knew Gates' politics. He is way too deep in ally territory for it to ever make sense for the left to "go after" him.
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Everyone in this country acquired their wealth by exploiting people beneath them. "There is no ethical consumption under capitalism."
Bill Gates' past behavior and public statements suggest to me that he is a man very eager to redistribute his wealth. He wants to be taxed more, and he has dedicated his life to charity. I would not be surprised if he simply cooperated with a socialist rebirth of the USA. The global negative consequences of "giving him the wall" would vastly outweigh the, as far as I can tell, non-existent benefit the left would get from making an enemy out of him.
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Come now, Bill gates has spent more on philanthropic ventures in Africa than the US and EU combined. Sure, he had a dodgy past, but compared to, say, Zuckerberg who has incited at least 2 genocides and helped elect various dictators because of fscebook propaganda and him simply not giving two fucks? Bill is one of the very few billionaires who's giving/gave away a great amount of money, purely to help those in need.
Again, fuck the rich capitalists who profit off others and fuck up the environment, but he's objectively the best of them
Edit: see this comment for a further breakdown. Eat the rich, just put him last on the list is all I'm saying
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While bill has done a lot of good, think how much more good we could do with the rest of his wealth. Bill is an exception to the usual greed seen in billionaires, but no rules are gonna be made with loopholes saying you can keep your money if you're nice.
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To be fair, Bill Gates has stated publicly that he wants the government to tax him more. The dude seems very receptive to the idea of redistributing his wealth.
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Check the other comment I made, bill WILL give his fortune to charity away when they die, and his kids will inherit scraps. Like a million each or something. The comment also links to an article explaining why the hell he still has so much, but that just means MORE money going towards charity when he passes
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And yet somehow he has more money than when he started! Looks like he sucks at divesting!
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Almost like his wealth is primarily tied up in a money-making empire, and it's very hard to give away billions of dollars. Would you like him to hand out Microsoft stock to kids with Polio?
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Best of the worst doesnt make you good.He maybe doesnt deserve to get punished,but he sure doesnt deserve to be that rich
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Possibly, but at the same time he is one of them.
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-sent from my iPhone™
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Doesn't really make the point any less valid. Supposed revolutionaries talking about murdering one of history's greatest philanthropists on their slave made electronics. Maybe you should go up against the wall too?
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Please tell me that was ironic. Because that's either retarded or a fucking funny comment.
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Gates is a "better" person than the other billionaires but remember that he could solve world hunger for a year (which would likely result in a chain of events that increases productivity and standard of living in places facing hunger that would make it exponentially less expensive to end it every year after) and he'd still be worth 75 billion dollars. That would make him the 4th richest person in the world, below just Bezos, Buffet, and Arnault.
It's really nice of him to do what he does but like, he literally could do so much more and nothing in how he lives his own life would change.
Even if we assume having a billion dollars all to yourself is ethical (it really isn't), the wealth of the billionaire class themselves is massively unequal. Someone in a billion dollars of debt is closer in net worth to one of the Waltons (each worth about 50B, so 51B difference) than one of them is to Gates (103B, so 53B difference)
It's cool that Warren Buffett is gonna donate all his money to charities and stuff when he dies, and that Gates donates to charity and funds resarch, but the world would be a better place if that money was already going towards those locations instead of people praying that the billionaires give them funding so that they can survive
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Yeah I getcha. I'm not saying Gates is perfect or that there's nothing wrong with the way the system works. I'm only speculating that singling him out as a target would probably not benefit the left from a pragmatic perspective.
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That's alot of words for eat the rich
Masticate the higher percentile of the income and wealth scale?