Scrolling through the all feed and saw this post and genuinely cannot tell of this is satire or not.
That’s a waste of perfectly nutritious millionaires.
How can you tell that they are a boomer at heart?
They talk about millionaires as the rich.
Millionaires can stay. I’m more angry about the billionaires and the soon to be trillionaires.
Nobody gets to be a millionaire without exploiting people.
You could be a very fair pricing dentist and easily get a net worth over $1m over your career.
Depends on what you mean by millionaire, in liquid capital? Sure probably some exploitation depending on factors. In net worth? Pretty sure my grandmother is a millionaire from our home alone.
thats actually hundred millionaires to billionaires they exploit people. MIllionares often do have to “work thier way up” most of the time. people who are born which rich, or upper middle class dont work thier way up, and they are usually much wealthier than 10million+, and usually dont stay millionaires if you already born into upper middle class(richer than 1mil+)
Some jobs do pay like that though, but that’s the lower-end of the millionaire bracket.
Becoming a millionaire is not as hard anymore. And it’s definitely not necessary to exploit anyone. You can work hard enough to justify it all though you’ll need to be good at something or build/Create something alot of people want to buy.
Billionaires, should not be tolerated.
If only they would…
No this sheer audacity and appropriation… On point after Karens took over BLM.
Bitch even if we came for the millionaires, that would hardly be the “first” group anyone came for. Y’all been coming for the women, gays, Latinos, atheists, Arabs and trans folk as long as can I can fuckin remember.
well, the white women majority back Trump so there is that
Half of them do it because they are in captive marriages with a Trumper.
The famous “women can’t do wrong, because of patriarchy” card. That’s a good one
they would want to marry someone like trump too.
And then what? They’re coming for your low middle class ass? They already have you! You’re drowning in debt with diabetes from the HFCS they refuse to outlaw and the healthcare you can’t afford praising a serial rapist that just made gas prices sky rocket by bombing a country so your stupid ass will forget about the evidence that proves he’s a habitual sex predator.
Millionaires aren’t really the problem, billionaires are.
Billionaires also aren’t the problem. They are the symptom.
The problem is the system of economics and politics, by extension the various institutions they manifest, that allows individuals to become billionaires through the exploitation of other people’s labor via private ownership over the means of production that should rightfully belong to the people through collective ownership.
I feel this is not stressed enough.
The guy owning the local car dealership that has a nice yacht and a holiday appartment in Mallorca is not actually even remotly the same kind of problem like jeff bezos or elon musk.
Sure, noone needs a yacht, but the irder of magnitude is not even remotely comparable.
Owning-class is owning-class. Regardless of the magnitude, they are still exploitative and that is the point.
Individuals aren’t the problem, the system that allows individuals to have exploitative and unjust power over others is.
Am million dollars isn’t yacht money, though. It would take several millions to actually get close.
1 million isn’t even enough for a comfortable retirement these days.
A “millionaire” doesn’t mean much compared to three decades ago.
Seriously. The difference between someone with 2 million dollars and 800 million dollars is about 800 million dollars
Yep. A million dollars is much closer to 0 dollars than it is to a billion dollars. An even bigger problem is the ultra billionaires.
Aside from that simplistic argument, billionaires are much much more parasitic to society than millionaires are.
First they came for the millionaires and distributed their wealth equally and I said nothing because I wasn’t a millionaire.
Then they came for the abled bodies and made public spaces as inclusive as possible and I said nothing because I didn’t notice.
Then they came for cis men and abolished the nuclear family and I said nothing because I’m not married so I didn’t care.
And when they smashed white supremacy, there was no one left to defend me.You are a poet. Well said
Is “abolishing the nuclear family” actually in the program here? WTF
Do you think that this means “no one can have a family that is two cis gendered people of the opposite sex raising children!”
Or do you think its talking about the structures of society that force people into these gender roles and family structures to begin with?
Answer. It’s the later one. Abolishing these structures, the incentives of and the dependencies they create, is part of abolishing patriarchy.
I don’t know what the fuck it means. I’m glad at least one of us seems to perfectly understand it as something benevolent, but it’s a pretty poor way to say it.
It’s a ‘classic’ red team conspiracy theory, long lasting cause it’s kiiiinda true. Just that it’s corpos atomizing us across the board because more households buy more stuff and not the liberals/gays/commies doing it because satan told them to in a weed trance
uh wut
You should really look into the history of how the “nuclear family” was pushed by capitalist media of the 50s and 60s in an effort to normalize the suburban lifestyle in order to have a more exploitable populace and how that affected the breakdown of local community and intergenerational support structures.
The shift was heavily facilitated by the “white flight” phenomenon of the era as well and plays a role in institutionalized racism.
Was hoping to lightheartedly explain the “they want to abolish the nuclear family” thing, but don’t think you’re my audience and the other guy made it weird. Got a different question than “uh wut” or should we just move on?
It’s not. You are just taking the definition of “Nuclear Family” in a vacuum. It’s like thinking “Abolish the Police” means that everyone that says that means they want anarchy, no state, and no form of law enforcement.
It’s a general phrase that speaks to the current structures and their real material results.
Your “idea” of the police or the nuclear family may be their definition on paper. An armed law enforcement. Or a single man, single women having kids.
These are what they are defined as in a vacuum. They are not what they are in the context of state structures.
The police are a defense of the capitalist class. Their job is first and foremost to protect private property and ensure class structures are not threatened.
The Nuclear Family is a means of ensuring a women’s material conditions and her children are dependent on a man for his labor. That same structure ensures men are given the advantage of control in that family structure; while keeping them having no power in their work or their labor.
These are what “leftist” are talking about when we are talking about abolishing these systems.
It’s not about being benevolent. It’s about being educated in class struggle and patriarchy.
Good try but no this was not in any way shape or form a clear way to say this. If you want to say “relive us from the pressure to conform to the tired and oppressive ideal of the nuclear family” then say that. Not “abolish the nuclear family,” which is nonsensical on its face because it’s physically impossible. Your connotations of this term are not to be confused with its denotation, and that’s the beginning and end of this. Anyway, I can tell you think this is super important but you’re not convincing me and I really don’t have any more fucks to give here so farewell.
I think you’re having a problem with the word “Abolish”. You might want to look at an actual dictionary.
Honestly, I feel like this happens a lot these days. There is a reason words in a dictionary have multiple definitions. But for some reason, today, people often just pick the most uncharitably definition and then just double down on their own misunderstanding.
Webster’s definitions:
(1) to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) (2) to completely do away with (something)
You’re picking the second definition and just saying that it is “nonsensical”. I know we live in a world where words are quickly losing their meaning; and it is beneficial (in social media) to purposely portray or misunderstand what someone says. But you can at least realize you’re doing it when it’s been pointed out to you so clearly. I don’t think you’re doing it on purpose.
It’s why I explained the systemic structures in my last comment. But, oddly, you seem to understand that and are just unfortunately having a problem with vocabulary.
No no, I agree we should start with the billionaires or possible trillionaires by time we actually do something.
Pretty sure this is about the millionaires tax in Washington State, the first income tax passed in the state ever. The big argument against it is that it’ll set the precedence of an income tax being legal by the state constitution, and then they’ll start lowering the minimum income to tax everyone. Oh no, a progressive tax system!
Haven’t been following WA super closely, but this is exactly why wealth tax is cooler than income
I live in a TX. I find it sad there are so many people who are closer to broke than they ever will be to being a millionaire
Except the “They” who comes for people is the millionaires.
Well the headline is satire. The sign likely not. It shows how crazy people are that you don’t know anymore
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I’m a liberal, but booting out conservatives is pretty weak. That sounds like what they do over in the conservative instances.
you dont sound like one at all.
That sounds like the whining conservatives do when we refuse to entertain their hateful bullshit
they can go on reddit, where they get free reign, and only get mildy punished. moderation is heavier handed against comments that implies"things against conservative" rather than the other way around.
That’s kind of the point of instances. Everyone got sick of the kind of shit they were posting so they moved to an instance that allows bigotry.
The paradox of tolerance is not a thing here.
It still makes me giggle sometimes that “truth social” is just a mastodon instance no one federates with
First they came for the millionaires and I laughed and laughed and laughed
