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[–] itspatato@lemm.ee 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is photoshopped… the picture was with mitt Romney and trump with his shiteating grin.. why the edit?

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Right? There are now 1,000 images of these idiots together. Why doctor an old Mitt Romney photo?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What do you think "the left" is??

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd love to see a poll of how people in the USA would answer that question.

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[–] Casteyes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

OP should have phrased it as "It's not Democrats vs Republicans; it's the 1% vs the 99%"

[–] r0bi@infosec.pub 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Messaging aside, be aware that this photo is edited, Musk wasn't originally in it.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wasn't it Ted Cruz originally?

EDIT: ah it was Mitt Romney.

[–] pcalau12i@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

"this isn't right vs left, this is right vs left"

uh... okay?

[–] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

I don't know. My elderly neighbor might be poor like me but his giant fucking Trump flag kind of makes me hope he dies because of Trump's policies, as well as miserable and alone.

I'll admit that's pure irrational spite politics. But the irrationality doesn't change how completely disinterested I am in joining forces with him against billionaires if he realizes he was wrong.

[–] El_Azulito@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

As I live alone and pay $500 a month just to be able to see a doctor, I am more and more enraged yet disillusioned the older I get. This is not living—this is fascistic technofeudalism.

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 99 points 3 days ago (23 children)

Incoherent take. The right is a tool the billionaires use to take shit away from the rest of us.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

But bringing people over from the right is important and attacking them is counterproductive.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not an excuse for mystification.

Also I'm pretty sure most right wing people consider themselves "moderate" or "independent" anyway so it's not like they'll feel attacked if we correctly blame the right for its crimes

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[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 12 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Well, when they stop attacking us for believing in human rights, maybe we can have a dialogue.

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Exactly, the issues we are diametrically opposed on cannot afford compromise. You can't compromise on whether or not trans people deserve to exist. You can't compromise on whether all school children deserve to eat. You can't compromise on the opposition of fascism, racism, and bigotry. These people can get on the right side of morality or they can get fucked and I'll tell every one of them to their face now that the other shoe is dropping on it. They have been offered the open hand of reason and discussion since at least 2015. They spat in our face for a decade. Now they get the fist.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 57 points 3 days ago (33 children)

Why did they photoshop the miserable Mitt Romney dinner picture

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago

Oh my, his anguished face. This is a work of art.

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[–] saaaaagard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 days ago (7 children)

What these dumbasses don't realize is that they do rely on these things - every minimum or even low wage worker absolutely needs these services to make ends meet. These people aren't just evil, they're stupid.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The only war is a class war.

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

and what tool do we fight wars with?

guns.

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[–] FinalEyes@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

No, this is Good vs Evil. Right vs Wrong. Truth vs Deception. But yeah, Billionaires are the dark half of those and develop extreme sociopathic megalomaniacal malignant narcissism apparently. How else can we explain it?

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Fight a class war, not a culture war.

And you, who thinks you are in the “upper class” by making 500k a year. You’re not, you are among the poor.

We fight the people who own billions, not you.

[–] Devanismyname@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

500k a year is a doctor or something. Someone who actually contributes to society. That's someone who should be rich because of how hard they worked to get there plus how important they are to our society. Elon musk shouldn't get paid a fucking dime.

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[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean technically how they make that 500k matters. If it's all just being a landlord we are definitely fighting them too.

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[–] cogman@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago (8 children)

We aren't talking about massive tax breaks. That's what's insane.

Currently SS is capped at ~$180k dollars @ ~5%. That means if you earn $180k, you pay 9k in SS tax. If you earn $2 billion you pay 9k in taxes.

These greedy leeches are destroying one of the only semi-decent systems all next to no money from them personally.

The actual tax increase from trump's expiring tax cuts is also something like 4%. Meaning these billionaires are doing all this work to save an extra $0.04 on every dollar of income.

They keep talking about the dangers and problems with debt, yet the blindingly obvious solution is a moderate increase in taxes. But instead of even broaching that subject, they are trying to also give themselves a tax cut while destroying social programs.

It's robbery, plain and simple.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Meaning these billionaires are doing all this work to save an extra $0.04 on every dollar of income.

$0.04 for every dollar of income doesn't sound like much until you're talking about a billion dollars, in which case it's $40 million.

That's a whole extra yacht!

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[–] TheMightyCat@lemm.ee 36 points 3 days ago

That is exactly why its Right vs Left

[–] clashorcrashman@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Idk, same shit honestly.

[–] Taco2112@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 days ago (11 children)

You do not have any "left" to speak of. You only have fascists and neoliberals.

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