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Vornado Realty Trust CEO Steve Roth slammed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a Tuesday earnings call.

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[–] ephrin@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

What a disgusting person.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Listen to them when they shit like us.

He's sugar coating it, the billionaires don't think of us as a different race, were a whole nother species to them.

The brain has to rationalize why you need more wealth than you could ever spend even if you tried while millions of children starve and you could literally save their lives

Any scrap of empathy in a billionaire is completely gone, every second of their lives waking or not thousands of deaths that not only could they easily prevent, looking at each one on a large scale often points fingers directly at that wealth being removed from circulation causes the deaths.

Anyone that thought they were the same as an average person, would go fucking crazy

The only way to hold onto rationality, is to convince yourself that you're just that much better and "the poor" can't be trusted to help themselves and if anyone else was as good with money, they'd be a billionaire too. So it becomes this perpetuating cycle where they only interact with each and The Time Machine starts looking like utopia and not a cautionary tale.

What they're doing is 100% normal, the problem is at the end of the day we're letting them do this.

We can just seize their fucking wealth, it's been done plenty of times when shit wasn't this bad before. This time it's bad virtually everywhere at once.

[–] Sumocat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The key difference is you can always stop being rich.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Ok.

Eat the rich.

[–] chelly__1@lemmychan.org 6 points 1 week ago

Money brings out the worst in people. You want to see how much of a lying, scamming, scumbag piece of shit someone is? Threaten their wealth.

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

If Hell was real it wouldn’t be hot enough for this fuck and every other billionaire alive today.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Gaslighters gonna gaslight.

Gender, race, & class: the 3 most-abusive prejudice-systems, rightly called-out by Angela Davis, decades ago, in her book.

"Tax the rich" means "make the rich pay their fair share into the tax-base", and that ISN'T racial-slur, & pushing otherwise absolutely-is gaslighting.

Keep the discussion calibrated to objective actuality, not to propagandists/psyop-pusher's disinformation.

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Hell awaits.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's because he's never experienced racism. He's only ever been racist (and classist), and doesn't understand what being on the business end of it is actually like.