72% of Americans Say the Rich 'Have Too Much' as GOP Pursues Another Handout for Billionaires

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• PurpleGameBoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A lot of them still support trump

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In a way I sort of understand them, the Dems today only really seems to act as the pawl in a ratchet, they are just delaying the GOP’s policies, not cancelling them then they are in power.

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    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Democrats are at best a center party. There is no left parties in the USA to really pull back. And without reforms to the first past the post voting and campaign contribution system there won’t be.

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    • Draegur@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      not to mention how much of a profitable racket the democrat machine has built on losing elections.

      Ever seen “The Producers”?
      “It’s possible to make more money with a flop than a hit!”
      (if you flop, nobody cares where the money went)
      Well, with the democrats,
      It’s possible to make more money with a loss than a win.
      Because when their campaigns fail, all the money that was raised disappears into the wind.

      Gone to “consultancy contracts”, “speaking fees”, “ad spending”, and probably a few other golden toilet seats.

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  • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    the antisemitism video of philosophytube hits the nail in the head.

    it’s not the banks that are bad, it’s ‘some banks’ that do what all banks do, it’s not the billionaires that are bad, it’s those billionaires that do what all billionaires do that are bad…

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• Anomalocaris@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  and 27% love the taste of the 1%'s boots

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  • Atropos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The only boot I want to taste is…

    DAS BOOT!!!

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    • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Let me tell you its quite full of iron

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• charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sure hope 72% are ready to vote and do things when the time comes. Never seems to go that way though

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    72% don’t like it, but about half of all voters think voting for the billionaires is the solution, so some fraction of that 72% is 100% idiots.

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  • Crankenstein@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Now with another one of these big bogus showdowns looming down on us, I can already pick up the stench of another bummer. I understand, along with a lot of other people, that the big thing this year is Beating Nixon. But that was also the big thing, as I recall, twelve years ago in 1960 – and as far as I can tell, we’ve gone from bad to worse to rotten since then, and the outlook is for more of the same.

    —Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 (1973).

    How many more decades of “Just vote harder” does this country need to go through before we realize we aren’t gonna be able to vote our way out of this?

    ">“You see,” my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

    -They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Voting over pal. There will be no more legitimate Voting…

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    • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      wonder when was the last time there was proper voting in this country, had the ever been.

      no poll tax, gerrymandering, disenfranchison, straight up voter fraud…

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• lorski@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  too late…. november was our last chance.

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• TommySoda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I found a calculator online to try and figure out where the average income of 25ish percent of the population around my age. It was around $90,000 to $100,000 a year. Not sure what my conclusion is, but I just found it very interesting.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The conclusion is that average is a bad metric for that. A bunch of people making poverty wages and one billionaire makes the average look very good.

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