Taxing wealth strikes me as like trying to scoop out the ocean. We have to recreate beaver dams and restore the metaphorical flood plains. Spread out and soak in. The water table is going down and the land is subsiding; moving some water isn't enough.
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Tax Wealth, or well shift from Trickle Down Economics to Robin Hood Economics, which usually doesn't turn out well for the leadership.
I know Gary likes to play dumb and assume this isn't actually the goal of the rich and powerful all along but they have been executing this class war now for 45 years. Its not like its new and its had universal support from every government since the early 1980s. It is what the ruling class wants, because they get to own everything and live even better. There is a reason you can't get Labour to do anything about it they have been pursuing this intentionally since the 2000s.
My brother in Christ, class war has been active for thousands of years.
Ever since the priests convinced others to work for them. The orginal lazy wealty class.
How does he play dumb?
By not admitting this is actually something the government is intending and helping happen. He is treating the powerful as if they are unaware of the impact of what is clearly their chosen strategy and what will happen.
I think he does so in that he makes it out as best as he can to not be left vs right as people have been propogandised as to what those terms mean, and he wants to appeal to the masses; but in practice it’s pretty left coded.
Isn't that explicitly the goal of alt-right "thinkers" like Yarvin and his "Dark Enlightenment" (not clever enough for "Endarkenment"?)? Peter Thiel hopes to apply/spread it to all Western civilizations, not just the US.
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 trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
He’s fucking right
This man is a clown and can safely be ignored without negatively affecting any part of your life.
It's a parody that this charlatan is making bank shilling populism to a magazine that is sold on the street by the homeless.
Listen to this self-aggrandising spiv winge about the "academics in their ivory tower" and how he's so smart that none of them take him seriously, while making a career out of surface level platitudes like the title. It's wild that anyone can listen to him without cringing out of their skull.
gary mate, i think thats what they want
Me resisting the urge to explain how modern medieval historians consider feudalism to have never existed:
But yeah he's right. Or well something will give before that, but that's the limit state we're looking at.
??? which part didn't exist, the serfs, the literal kings and tiers of nobility, what
He's right but people in the UK are too racist to gain a collective class consciousness.
Right or wrong, it's bizarre to make an overgeneralised statement accusing others of bigotry.
It’s a comment that is used to make everyone feel like it’s pointless trying to fight this.
We are powerful united and they don’t want us to fight back.
Eat the rich.
It is overgeneralised, but I look at how many people are feeding into the lies told by Nigel Farage and similar people, a lot of people hang on their every word and take it as gospel.
There are articles every week regarding racist attacks and outbursts, most recent discussion I could find: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/13/belfast-southampton-riots-racism-why-is-the-uk-burning
There will never be class consciousness as long as even a decent minority of people listen to the hate being spewed in this country.
What do you feel is "a decent minority" that could prevent it? I think I'd say that Farage's recent poll numbers are easily sufficient, but if his latest alleged corruption is found to be real and it halves them, then I'd say that wasn't enough to prevent class consciousness.
In other words: I really disagree with your generalisation being permanent. Things change in politics and sometimes it's even for the better.
return to the feudal age
Ummm... we never left.