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Null User Object@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours ago

An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax

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An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax

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    I’m greatly amused by the thought of a march that could not be more than 3,028 people.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      I feel like the target audience is “temporarily embarrassed [billionaires]”[1]

      That is, people who are not billionaires, but like to imagine themselves as having the ability to become one.


      [1] the original quote that this is from uses “millionaires” but years of the upwards flow of wealth meant the quote needed some updating.


      1. 1 ↩︎

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    That’s still not gonna get him that vc cash

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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    So they’ll all be in one place?

    Notify antifa! Unleash the meteor!

  • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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  • nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    Every healthy society needs a robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.

  • mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org
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    As long as it leads them torwards a guillotine, I’m all in, I guess?

  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world
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    Update - The Bootlickers were sent out instead

  • WraithGear@lemmy.world
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    yes, put them all together in one place, in the open

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    I don’t think these rattle heads, actually plan to march, I think he thinks he will order a march, and all the people currently marching that he sees, love him so much and support his “deserving” lifestyle so much, they’ll all march for him. He’s putting in orders for you to march for him, on his behalf, and he absolutely believes it’ll happen in troves.

    • SippyCup@lemmy.world
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      I would march.

      200 bucks an hour I’ll walk around a bit and pretend to give a shit.

      I will also say things that when taken out of context will sound fucking awful and when in context will sound extremely suspicious.

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        I would march too, it’s too easy to satire the movement. Signs like “Bill Gates did nothing wrong on Epstein’s Island” or “Peter Thiel is not a vampire” seem like a good fit for the event.

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        This would be hilarious!

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    Yes, get billionaires into the streets and marching.

    I predict this will do wonders for the compacting roller market.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      Think of the egg industry! It can’t handle the buyer pressure in the days up to these events.

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        brb, buying rotten tomatoes

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    Yes! Let’s get the billionaires all in one place. I’m hungry!!

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      Bilderberg Conference

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      I’ll bring a bell!

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    I’d love too watch 20 billionaires walk in a group

    Such temptation

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      The other name for the march is the “MAGA bootlickers march”.

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      There will be more security around them than what the US president gets when he goes out.

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    Can you imagine the size of the counter-demonstration. I really hope this goes ahead.

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      Came here to say the same, theyll all be out in the streets without the protection of their mansions

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        Why do these people hate us so mu…

        OOF. OUCH.

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      That would be amazing. Like 20 multimillionaires and one billionaire show up and then…

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