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He's talking about California and New York. You know, kind of like they did when Trump was president last time.
With a cabinet made of billionaires?
Yeah ok what else you want us to smoke
But what does President Musk think about raising taxes on the rich?
I fully can see him being the type that makes an exception for himself and totally screws over his billionaire peers.
He doesn’t look like someone that would get along with his peers.
Our taxes should be paid directly to Musk instead of going through the government.
Steve Bandwagon strikes again.
Populist gonna Populist.
And hell just froze over.
i love that shiteating grin on his face underneath this headline
Sounds promising, except the “wealthy” he’s considering are probably in the 80k-250k bracket lol
Unless they’re targeting multimillionaires+, it’s not gonna work. The other half of this is that there needs to be an open and transparent process for keeping tracking of how taxes are spent
Edit but since it’s a bunch of kleptocrats in govt now, what to think of that? I guess rich progressives/dems/libs better make sure they’re using the same loop holes to conserve wealth that the conservatives will, otherwise it’s just playing a game rigged to kill you.
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day
It won’t happen. He’s sayin this to avoid getting shot
What the fuck did I just read?
Bannon might be a piece of shit, but he knows everyone else is too, and isn't afraid to talk bluntly and openly about it.
Something tells me that, if the white house was on fire, he'd be laughing.
Given the basic implausibility of the horseshoe theory, why do so many centrist commentators insist on perpetuating it? The likely answer is that it allows those in the centre to discredit the left while disavowing their own complicity with the far right. Historically, it has been “centrist” liberals – in Spain, Chile, Brazil, and in many other countries – who have helped the far right to power, usually because they would rather have had a fascist in power than a socialist.
Today’s fascists have also been facilitated by centrists
Same place happens to have a much newer article that concludes much the same.
Horseshoe models should be scrutinised for what they put in and what they choose to leave out. They emphasise values such as individualism, free markets and moderate policies, but register few of the social inequalities, exploitation and structural violence that often accompany them.
So while the left–right spectrum isn’t perfect, bending it into a horseshoe doesn’t do much to explain the strange political bedfellows of our times.
Well maybe the theory's wielders are wrong, but I still buy the basic premise.
The extreme left and right are slowly gravitating towards similar conclusions about who thier real enemies are... basically, billionares.
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