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Scrolling through the all feed and saw this post and genuinely cannot tell of this is satire or not.

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[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

It's not satire, it's weaponized absurdity.

[–] couggod@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

It's real. It was from a protest in Washington State, USA. The legislature was voting on a tax on millionaires.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are serious. If you suggest any constraint to oligarchist/corporatist supremacism, that makes you the nazi. See, first you will ask the arguably deplorable millionaires to pay their fair share, but because you are a nazi, you will then tax the poor middle class jews.

[–] The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"the Nazis were socialist!"

And North Korea is a Democratic Republic

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

I ate Buffalo wings in Montreal once. True story.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (16 children)

Millionaires can stay. I'm more angry about the billionaires and the soon to be trillionaires.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

The tax in question is actually on annual income of a million dollars. But it's Washington so they can't call it an income tax

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She's likely a hundredaire who will one day be a billionaire.

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

She doesn't have enough days left for that.

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How can you tell that they are a boomer at heart?

They talk about millionaires as the rich.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bitch even if we came for the millionaires, that would hardly be the “first” group anyone came for. Y’all been coming for the women, gays, Latinos, atheists, Arabs and trans folk as long as can I can fuckin remember.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 days ago (10 children)

well, the white women majority back Trump so there is that

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[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 2 days ago (22 children)

First they came for the millionaires and distributed their wealth equally and I said nothing because I wasn't a millionaire.
Then they came for the abled bodies and made public spaces as inclusive as possible and I said nothing because I didn't notice.
Then they came for cis men and abolished the nuclear family and I said nothing because I'm not married so I didn't care.
And when they smashed white supremacy, there was no one left to defend me.

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[–] AlexSage@piefed.social 82 points 2 days ago

No no, I agree we should start with the billionaires or possible trillionaires by time we actually do something.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 64 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Millionaires aren't really the problem, billionaires are.

[–] Padit@feddit.org 38 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I feel this is not stressed enough.

The guy owning the local car dealership that has a nice yacht and a holiday appartment in Mallorca is not actually even remotly the same kind of problem like jeff bezos or elon musk.

Sure, noone needs a yacht, but the irder of magnitude is not even remotely comparable.

[–] Corn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

The guy owning the local car dealership

The small capitalists have a unique set if interests. They're not the biggest beneficiary of the system, but they tend to be fascism's most rabid soldiers. These are the people who did J6.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Am million dollars isn't yacht money, though. It would take several millions to actually get close.

1 million isn't even enough for a comfortable retirement these days.

A "millionaire" doesn't mean much compared to three decades ago.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And this was 29 years ago. It's even less now!

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yuup. Forgot about that. Decades ago they joked that he didn’t know about billions or trillions.

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

Not that he didn't know, he didn't account for inflation since he was frozen.

Seriously. The difference between someone with 2 million dollars and 800 million dollars is about 800 million dollars

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[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 days ago

Billionaires also aren't the problem. They are the symptom.

The problem is the system of economics and politics, by extension the various institutions they manifest, that allows individuals to become billionaires through the exploitation of other people's labor via private ownership over the means of production that should rightfully belong to the people through collective ownership.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

Yep. A million dollars is much closer to 0 dollars than it is to a billion dollars. An even bigger problem is the ultra billionaires.

Aside from that simplistic argument, billionaires are much much more parasitic to society than millionaires are.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

Except the "They" who comes for people is the millionaires.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 2 days ago

That's a waste of perfectly nutritious millionaires.

[–] dwemthy@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pretty sure this is about the millionaires tax in Washington State, the first income tax passed in the state ever. The big argument against it is that it'll set the precedence of an income tax being legal by the state constitution, and then they'll start lowering the minimum income to tax everyone. Oh no, a progressive tax system!

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

And then what? They're coming for your low middle class ass? They already have you! You're drowning in debt with diabetes from the HFCS they refuse to outlaw and the healthcare you can't afford praising a serial rapist that just made gas prices sky rocket by bombing a country so your stupid ass will forget about the evidence that proves he's a habitual sex predator.

[–] RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well the headline is satire. The sign likely not. It shows how crazy people are that you don't know anymore

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