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'Newsom Does Not Want to Tax Billionaires,' Say Campaigners, 'But Wants You to Think He Does'
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It's worse, this is Nixon and the EPA all over again.
Or Obamacare even.
They know it's unavoidable, and if they don't act something effective might finally happen.
So the oligarchs will pass something that says "tax billionaires" but absolutely no one will fall under it. When a progressive runs on "tax billionaires" everyone will point to this do nothing bill and say it's already done.
Taking the wind out of the movements sails...
I'd like to say this shit should be obvious, but it's clearly not for most people.
Its almost as if decades of attacking education and critical thought was the first step in destroying our democracy or something.
Buddy...
People back in 1969 didn't put it together either.
1969 people didnt have the total sum of human knowledge and infinite possibilities towards personal improvement and learning in their pocket.
yes, AI and the internet will save us all. Its the modern equivalent to DuPonts "better living through chemistry" slogan.
I love when people reply to what they imagine I posted, instead of what i actually posted.
Yeah, but they said 1909 people didn't have national TV news...
Not to mention the Internet only tells you someone noticed something, another way to look at that is they had more critical thinking than we do today, because they had to fill in the blanks themselves.
It's insane how many times I've out time into a comment pulling form multiple different areas, and someone's just says "source" without any context. And a single link that looks like it backs one thing up, is taken as proof for everything.
Just the concept that someone is putting things together is inconceivable to people, that expect one single article that "proves" everything.
It's really fucking dangerous when a society blindly accepts authority like that, even without a demented fascist running the show.