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  • Crime. Corruption. Spending a few hundred million on tax lawyers.

    We need to raise corporate taxes back to 90%. Before yall get your nuts all twisted. They could write off most of that back in the day by raising wages and reinvesting into the company to grow it.

    THAT is what built the industrial juggernaut that won the Cold War. That was the main cause. It’s what made the US economy so indomitable.

    Nowadays they pay a pittance and reinvest nothing. They stagnate wage growth. And that’s why we’ve been stuck in this boom bust cycle for decades.




  • It always does. The lords get too greedy, and the peasants revolt.

    The US has done an exceptionally good job of propaganizing that instinct out of people. But the material conditions of American Life have brought the sentiment roaring back.

    Basically there are 2 paths. Either way is going to be a revolutionary upturning of the status quo. Either there will be another FDR who reins in the worst impulses of Capital. Or the citizenry will do it for them.

    That or GovCo goes full authoritarian to control the population. But that has the potential to spark a civil war. After all, we have more guns than people to use them. A few massacres around the country would spark a real resistance.



  • I have morals. I have empathy. For the homeless. For the destitute. The poor. The hungry. Victims of war.

    For parasites like Brian Thompson I have nothing but vicious mockery and laughter. Fuck them all. May they die screaming.

    Edit - hold up, I’m not done.

    I am a savage. The product of my environment. An environment that has told me all my life that 30 dead kids every week or two is the price we pay for freedom. That a million dead civilians on the other side of the planet is good and just because we’re the good guys. That the predatory monsters at the head of all these companies that have made life here worse year over year are the smartest and most qualified and that what they do isn’t only legal, but just. That the poor don’t deserve food water and shelter. It’s fine if they starve. Because they didn’t work hard enough or maybe they’re on drugs. That corporations have no responsibility whatsoever to anyone but their shareholders. They deserve everything they can take from us. Because that’s Capitalism and Capitalism is just the best. That women don’t deserve self determination because of a 1700ish year old book of shitty fairytales.

    So yeah. [redacted] all the ceos. All the billionaires too. Why should I care? They’re just meat. Fuck em. A few more bodies on the pile. No big deal.

    Edit 2 - Same country that handwaves off a goddamned genocide. Funds it, supports it, and tells me it’s not a big deal. 100,000 dead civilians this year. Tells me that I can’t boycott the country using MY MONEY to ethnically cleanse an entire indigenous population.



  • We hung the “just following orders” guys after WWII.

    They weren’t personally responsible for the system they perpetrated. But we hung them anyway.

    Same thing here.

    Or is your gripe that it came from the bottom up instead of the top down? That it was righteous fury instead of cold legality? Because the legal side has utterly failed us. Been corrupted if not outright captured. It serves them not us. Million dollar fines on billion dollar profits aren’t a penalty. They’re a rounding error, an operating expense. Already accounted for in the budget.

    Leave people with no recourse. No justice. They’ll make their own way.