Sorry, but peacefully??? When’s the last time the ultra rich did anything considerate for the rest of us? The time is now to work together, yes, but they expect peacefully so they can easily control you with police they own and politicians they buy!
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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
I feel like denying the existence of any amount of democracy everywhere on earth is exactly the mindset that empowers fascists and communist dictators.
It feels good to be able to simplify everything down, but concentration of wealth in market economies is a complicated issue that requires complicated solutions that the majority has been busy crafting and implementing for thousands of years as we progressed from the time of god kings to now. We have real democracies. We have means of the many peacefully controlling the few. We just need more people to participate in that system.
mrnobody@reddthat.com 1 day ago
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
The Ultra Rich fear the IRS, that is why they promote people like Donald Trump in a bid to dismantle it. We created the IRS and we have a responsibility for future generations to empower and protect it, to harm people like the Ultra Rich, to harm Trump.
greenbit@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Where are the real democracies? The god-kings still keep on fucking kids. Why would they let voting stop them? Sure, participation is the least must-do right now, but if it worked, it wouldn’t be allowed.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
Prime example Finnland. Highest tax rate on the rich in the world and also ranks as the happiest nation in earth regularly.
Lesser example is that the USA, while failing, is still in a much better position than Russia which is solely countrolled by a plutocratic oligarchy for decades.
Clearly there is a spectrum for how much or how little people control policy and wealth. There is a a battle going on between the rich and the governments built by the people.
greenbit@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Finland is currently run by the same oligarch network chain, vassals of Trump and his handlers, planning to use the area for nukes for the big show. Capitalists have their brown shirts in the government, and once in a while a centrist (still capitalist) party might become the biggest (next year probable), but it works in the ratchet politics method, never undoing the damage, basically a controlled opposition. Highest unemployment rate in Europe, by design. The degree of riggedness is just more hidden, even the “democracy” there isn’t able to purge or become isolated from the now rotten institutions of the world.
Klear@quokk.au 1 day ago
My bet posts like this are from Americans who are waking up to the fact that they live in a shithole, but have already internalised that their country is the best so they assume everywhere else in the world must be the worse.
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 1 day ago
These sound like words from someone who wants democracy brought to them.