Not our chosen leaders. Not our way of life.

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Billionaires should not exist. They should be taxed out of existence.
- Seriously. If they want to keep their money, they should be forced to invest it in companies that generate jobs.
  
  Isn’t that exactly where most billionaire’s wealth typically is? A lot is in stock of some company they started or invested in.
  You can’t gobble up the excess value created by workers if there are no workers.
- Yep. No pity. There is an upper limit on how much money one person can meaningfully benefit from. And our system creates these insane leaks that pour value into mile-deep, inch-wide holes. It’s honestly a form of waste. Radical capitalists should embrace this idea.

Consider this: a million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. It really helps me understand just how obscenely wealthy these people are, how much money they are hoarding. They're leeches.
- By that measure, $100,000 a year for 60 years is 70 days.
  And since a billion seconds is 31 years, Musk is worth almost 7000 years.
  
  There are people on this planet who could give up 90% of their wealth and still ensure a more than comfortable life for themselves and their family, for a dozen generations and more.
  And yet they keep all of it.
  Then you'll have the people defending them with the good old argument that no one should be expected to give up their hard-earned wealth.
  Sure, except these twats „earned“ it through exploitation and misery. No one gets this filthy rich with honest and fair work, that's not how the game works.

Can we just get here already, these memes are nice, but where are the actual guillotines?
- Don't you have to actually work to build them?
- Considering most of you are very anti-2a... pretty much never.
  
  God I'm so sick of this take.
  We're not anti second amendment we're anti idiots with guns.
  If you can't pass a background check or a psychological evaluation you shouldn't own a gun.
  "bUt CrImInAlS-" shut the fuck up. Yeah criminals will still get guns but it'll be a lot fucking harder for them to obtain them.
  
  I love firearms. They're fun. However, they're also dangerous, to yourself and others. I believe there should be requirements for background checks, mental health evaluations, and also mandatory training in the operation, maintaince, storage (1776 is not a good combination, and firearms are the most stolen items), and transportation of your firearm, as well as training on the legality of its usage, all of which is tested and must be passed. This should probably be funded with taxes as well, to ensure poor people aren't deprived of their rights.
  To claim this position is "anti-2A" is disingenuous at best. Hell, the 2A is written in a way that I don't think it applies anymore (the protection of a free State does not require a well regulated militia if we have a standing professional military, which wasn't expected to be a thing at the time), but I still think firearm ownership shouldn't be banned. It should be regulated, like car ownership is which is almost required to live life in the US and is designed for transportation, not killing things.

I'm hungry, are you?
- Hungry like a french peasant from 1789.
  
  They learned a lesson from that, now they have us bickering with each other over rich political figures who we treat like celebrities. So, it’ll take longer to come to the French Revolution stage, by then they’ll be in safety bunkers.
- I'm already feeling a bit hangry

Because its relevant
Against the Logic of the Guillotine Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too
For me the main point is: If you are able to execute your enemies publicly on the guillotine, you have already won and actually have better(more in line with your ideals) ways to deal with ex billionaires.
- I agree. Launching them into orbit and shoving them out the airlock would garner a much greater sense of poetic justice.
  
  Or maybe, if you actually think they should be killed, do it now? Like why wait for some situation like you described that might never happen.
- I agree, but this is an image, not a guillotine. Maybe you could argue the image of a guillotine could lead to similar methods being used if a revolution happens, but I don't know if that's worth discussing in depth. As a tool to transport a message, I think a guillotine is valid. As a method of murder, probably not.
  
  But the message the guillotine is transporting is "lets start murdering".
- Exactly, they can repay their debt to society in hard labour camps.

Garbage, low effort, polarising post that does nothing to further the actually important antiwork movement.

Ew gross.
I'm not fucking any of those ugly bastards.

*eat

We didn't chose our leaders. Leaders got billions because we chose to do nothing.
Why do you think corporations strive in America and at the same time the people gets the shit (bad labour laws, bad healthcare, bad wages) compared to Europe? Because they're better?
Fuck no, it's because of Europe. The founding fathers created a "weak" government on purpose, leaving the power to we the people. Why do you think we're the only country in the world with a Second Amendment?
(Except Mexico and Guatemala but that's a different story...)
But guess what, Americans are lazy, we had a duty and we didn't answer the call... so who filled the hole? People with ambitions. And people with ambitions create companies, and companies value profits, not wellbeing.
We didn't chose billionaires. Billionaires got billions because we chose to do nothing.

Viva la revolution

Speaking of guillotines..
Can anyone here edit videos?
I have an original piece of music of about 1 minute length, I was hoping to work with someone on adding images of rich people mixed what short clips of a rising guillotine blade or something like that.
The audio is ready. I was thinking of editing some video for it myself, but it is not really my area of expertise..

But you did choose those leaders, by accepting the two party system and always voting for the lesser evil. The phenomenon of ‘the lesser evil’ isn’t born out of necessity, it is manufactured, so the people who have money can earn even more wealth and power every 4 years by giving you their option for leadership.
I like the idea of the guillotine, but those blades have never been sharpened in the US… you always liked your less evil leaders.

Yep, sending them to the guillotine is certain to solve…what problem, exactly?
- The billionaire problem.
  
  But then what?
  Would you lazy fucks actually get up and do something productive?

Can't raise taxes for the rich exclusively in the US. The 16th amendments wording prohibits raising taxes for specific individuals or groups of people. It has to be that everyone pays more taxes or it violates the Constitution. So if any politician says they're going to make the rich pay their fair share, keep in mind that you're going to pay more too.
- Progressive taxes already exist and are perfectly legal.
  
  I wasn't talking about a flat tax. I was stating that if taxes increased for one part of society then it has to increase for everyone. Otherwise, whichever party is in power would increase taxes on the other party's registered voters.
- Taxes could be raised on things which disproportionately affect billionaires, it's not like a flat tax increase is the only option.
  
  It's hard to find even one thing that affects just one group of people. For example, increasing the Capital Gains tax will also impact retirees cashing in their retirement plans. Also, what's to stop them from just leaving the country and renouncing US citizenship when taxes get too burdensome?
- The emphasis of the post is not taxation.
  A progressive income tax, as well as augmentation of the capital gains tax, are various ways to tax the rich that are obviously constitutional.
  While some right-wing sources insist a wealth tax is unconstitutional, in fact no judicial inquiry has yet been tried, and mainstream sources readily affirm its viability.
  
  I'm not saying that the progressive income tax is illegal. I'm stating an increase on one bracket will also mean an increase on all brackets. And such things as raising property taxes or the capital gains tax will hurt others than those you want to pay.

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