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“The Oligarchs Can Be Beaten”: Bernie Sanders Responds to Trump’s Speech (inthesetimes.com)

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[–] takeda@lemm.ee 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Since 1975 $79 trillions flew from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. That's twice amount as our current national debt.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Reagan was a putz and we were a bunch of schmucks

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Lemmy is broken. It's only letting me upvote you once. I want to upvote many times.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 3 days ago

Hey, that's not fair. We still are a bunch of shmucks!

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

wtfhappenedin1971.com

[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Some of the graphs are useful, but the message that site is pushing is weird gold-bug propaganda.