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They say they're going to do something that rhymes with "grieve."

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Careful there... When tech bros get annoyed, they finance fascism.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They finance fascism either way.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

So we need higher taxes to make sure they have less money to do it

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I think at this point, asset forfeiture is the only way to neutralize those cockroaches.

[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 21 hours ago

Exactly! When people have way too much money they start to have funny ideas like eugenics and start wars.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 4 points 23 hours ago

Usually they just buy the politicians that will let them be even richer. The rich don't give a shit about who's in charge as long as they can be bought.

But the current crop - Thiel, Musk and co - they're true believers. They want to be rich under a new Hitler figure.

They already have. With billions of dollars. And it worked.