Initially read "liquidated" as "liquefied" and somehow it was both a more beautiful and disgusting image.
Vitamix the rich!
Most of those โcausesโ are donated to through organizations founded by the billionaires and used as tax havens to shuffle money around while taking advantage of tax loopholes.
Jesse Ventura has said his share of bonkers stuff, but his recent comments that making any more than $12 million a year is ridiculous is pretty much the most reasonable thing anyone in national politics has said regarding the wealthy.
Philanthropy is just part of a billionaire's PR costs.
bill gates is that guy. his shit foundation bought food stocks so less ppl in africa were able to buy food. a weaker immune system and melina pos gates steps into the scene "donating" some stolen money for vaxination and food.
fuck anyone who uses windows.
Plenty of us use Windows without ever having bought it. I can honestly say that I've used almost every distribution of Windows since 3.0 and 3.11, but I've never given Microsoft so much as a penny.
sure. but when will you leave? like what does it take? steamos is faster for your games, linux kinda works awesome for desktop. and m$ had soooo so many fuckups over the decades...nothing seems to have made you switch to another os. so what would it take? does bill need to shoot someone in the face right on timesquare?
because even if you dont pay for the OS (isnt it free these days anyways?), you harm the internet, progress in general, you share way too much data and so on. so even if you dont give bill money directly, as a windows user you are part of a bigger problem.
Fuck you too
I canโt see any of their comments but I have to say-picking the name โstormbringerโ is a red flag from jump.
Their comments were removed since it was a troll account.
It looks like a whole mastodon instance full of such people. Front page trending tag is 'fakenews'.
We could instead purรฉe them
A tax rate for billionaires of 200% seems fair to me...
@toaster and of that 33 trillion in debt we are, most of it went to the military industrial complex. Which has never been audited. You think they're spending your money wisely dropping bombs on brown people in the desert? Or maybe pissing our money away in forever foreign wars is exactly how you WANT your tax dollars spent. Jesus Christ.
It sounds like you're pretty frustrated. There sure is far too much money spent on the military and the human rights abuses it causes. Please consider that there was never any claim made that we need to increase funding there; it's a strawman argument for something that you're rightfully upset about.
FFS, 7 month old account with 0 comments or posts as it shows to me and a meme about how the parasite class need to be taxed/removed sends you off in a tizzy. You have to build some history before jumping in whole hog to be a believable troll you know?
How soon before people start getting offers to buy their lemmy accounts?
Once I hit 100k karma on reddit, I started getting clearly automated messages from brand new accounts offering to purchase my account for anywhere from a $25 roblox gift card to several hundred dollars.
And while I sure could have used that money, I used my old username on almost everything and wasn't about to turn my username into a shill for a company.
Idk what the going rate is nowadays but 100k karma, started around my account being 6ish years old, filled with thousands of comments and dozens of posts stretching back to 2010/2011. That is how you properly troll.
But hey, if they want to make it easy to spot...
They make it so easy to know who to block sometimes, don't they?
@toaster most of the problems that exist is because the government robs us off so much of our money. Both through purposely causing inflation and taxing us. Then turning around, paying people to make poor choices (welfare), indoctrinating us into believing we need government assistance to survive. Government is a big fucking scam.
Oh no. It's an ancap =.=
@toaster are you fucking kidding me?! You think a corrupt, bureaucratic governing body would actually spend the money efficiently, responsibly, or even direct the biggest percentage of it to the right people? Are you insane? How many local construction projects end up as money laundering schemes for politicians?! Biden's inaccurate "infrastructure" bill alone maybe actually spent $25 billion on infrastructure, if that. Statists are literally the biggest fucking morons.
Who said anything about beurocratic governing bodies?
@toaster fuck I didn't see the crossed out line. Went on a rant that wasn't even applicable
