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I came up with a rhyme for the occasion: "Happy 4th of july! If you are poor you will die!"
Your poem is very appropriate - you might want to break that down into two lines, give it a title, post it on c/poetry@lemmy.world, and don't forget to add the [OC] tag.
Let's just see how it does there. You can count on my up-vote.
But don't feel obligated - strictly if you felt like doing this. Have a good day.
This reads like a promo-bot comment.
Make America the Great depression Again.
Independence Day doesn’t matter to you unless you have at least one billion dollars in your bank account.
Just like the OG Independence Day.
Because black/asian/latino billionaires are dandy and statistically not lobbying for their interest in detriment of humanity like white billionaires?
They do, but in the US at least, you're less likely to be a billionaire in the first place among such populations.
And because there is less of them, that makes them better?
That might be true, but it is also unnecessary to bring race into it. No war but class war is a phrase I really agree with, and making how white the 1% is part of the argument just plays into their game. Nothing would be lost in that argument if it was just happy 1% day.
Ah yes, which black/browm/“yellow” billionaire was deported again?
In the US slightly over 96 percent of the top 1.1 million in wealth, are white. No billionaire is good, but he is talking about the US, where almost all the gross wealth inequity is in favor of white people.
So they are not any better? So putting the white there is pointless
When you are talking about the US specifically it is pertinent. I know you want strip racist aspects of these things from the conversation, but that is stupid.
Why would we talk about the US and why would the race matter there? Why are you adding the racist bits?
You can’t just say a thing without bothering to explain to a person who clearly doesn’t understand something
Did you not look at the post you are commenting on before you decided to comment? I do not understand how you didn't know this post was about the US when the person in the post is talking about the US's independence day holiday, and the announcement of the passing of US legislation on that day, but believed you had a valid opinion on the subject. The whole thing is about the US. If you read a post, and you are uninformed about what it is talking about, or otherwise do not understand it, maybe rather than commenting what's what about it, you instead look it up, or ask someone first.
Kevin Nash, the person who made the post in the screen shot, is talking about the US when he mentions white billionaires. There is a long, detailed, well understood, history of racism within the wealth disparity of the US. Racism that favors white men. If you would like to know that history, you can look it up, it is an easy subject to find information about.
Butterthumbs, attempt just attempt to do something more than making statements! Pretty please?
What difference would it make that we narrow the borders of the world to your(?) countries borders? Does your white billionaires act differently than any other billionaire?
If you attempt to understand that you are replying to something on the subject of the US, specifically, I might take time to explain something to you that could much more adequately be explained by reading an article found from a search on the subject.
You have time to reply 40 times but you don’t have time to explain whether there is a difference between white and any other billionaires, and whether there is a diff between american and other billionaires…
I am not typing out an academic paper for you to explain why someone talking specifically about the US would use the modifier "white" when discussing these issues, as they pertain to the US. If you are not able to grasp the concept of a conversation having a subject, and not discussing things outside of it, I doubt you would be able to grasp something more complicated.
A very short oversimplification would be fine too, but pretty sure you won’t be doing that either as I am growing ever more certain that there is no difference between american or any other billionaires! And I think you think so too, for refusing to even say yes or no; reckon as a sort of deniability
Buttercracker, I know that despite living in by far the most dystopian country that is hardly even becoming first world you think of yourself as special for some strange reason! But no, you can discuss about things that are universal or even completely other topics under any post! Even if its about the us!
This is now your… 6th reply to me? Don’t lie to yourself, you have all the time in the world! So no you are not not answering the question for your lack of time
Because they US has been systemically constructed to funnel wealth specifically to white men. There are a lot of papers out there that discuss the history, reasoning, mechanics, etc of the whole thing, and why it is important. These papers are easy to find, if you actually want to know.
The fact that you think staying on subject is important here because the subject is the US, and not some other subject, is stupid. You can, physically, talk about anything, at any time. However, if you wander into a conversation about one group, doing a thing, and start interjecting talking points about another group, you are just being an asshole, at worse, or very unaware of how conversation is generally held, at best. I also never implied it was due to lack time. I have implied it was due to lack of desire to do the work, especially when that work has already been done, and is readily available online, by people who are experts in the subject matter.
If you can name what I am supposed to look for that would be jolly! Tho I very much so doubt that a specific sex and gender was at play at the choosing of the recipient of the corruption, but inflating that all white billionaires got their pointlessly large riches from that is just dumb! Most of them prob got them from other unethical methods/sources, like all billionaires regardless of their sex or ethnicity!
To the topic of ‘white men billionaire bad’, you find the question of ‘what is the diff between white and other billionaires’ to be obtuse?
And because I am foreign, I cannot ask that question? Would you explain to a foreign differently from that of your countryman?
Also, I never said white billionaires were worse than others, I said that there is a reason to call out white billionaires with this piece of legislation due to it being american.
Which is?
The US was systemically constructed to funnel wealth specifically to white men, like I said in the last comment. Your reading comprehension sucks. If you want a detailed explanation of this I suggest reading one of the many papers written on the subject, by experts, that are available online. For now, though, time to do something other than talk to an online wall. Have fun!
You are such a wonder to talk to… Time must work differently for you…
Can you actually name what policy, paper, event or whatever that totally happens am I supposed to look into?
Yes, asking why white billionaires are worse is bait! Please make sure to treat it so and you might somehow justify for yourself why you don’t/can’t answer the question!
You heard anything about Jack Ma recently?
You think Jack Ma is US American?
Sure, not sure how much I believe from the ccp propaganda tho!
Are you by chance saying that he is a better billionaire because he is “yellow”?
I'll be honest, my thought was not fully formed when I posted. I saw "non-white billionaires" and it reminded how delightful it was how the CCP handled Jack Ma. I wish Elon Musk was treated a bit more like that, instead of being invited in oval office and being given a fucking department with a funky acronyms. Insanity doesn't begin to cover it. Anyway, it appears there is some sort of white privilege going on, even within the 1%
You know he was disappeared because he spoke up against the ccp? Aside from having 2 cringe public speakings, did he even do anything Elmo worthy?
But the official story of him being a poor child of a very small village and starting a business with no capital that exports the non-agricultural output of very small villages outside of the capitalist bubble? That is not only self contradictory, not only an affront to the communists lifestyles tamp, but a fucking shit origin story… He could have held Mao’s balls when he birthed the nation or something!
I just want to point out that the debt itself is not an issue. The problem with this bill is its cuts in welfare and horrible distributional consequences, but the increased deficit and debt are not.
I mean... It can be both.
It could, but it isn't. The US national debt is solely denominated in US dollars: A currency of which the US government is the monopoly issuer. Thus the US government cannot run out of money to pay its obligations.
Except that leads to inflation, which is a huge deal.
No, it doesn't. What could lead to inflation is government bidding up prices by spending in areas where the resources are already fully employed. That can happen whether the government runs a deficit or a surplus. If the government spends on something where there is idle productive capacity, the spending is not necessarily inflationary, as the increased demand is easily met by an increased supply. If, on the other hand, the government spends on something where the production is already at full employment, they will be engaged in a bidding war against the private sector (a bidding war the government will always be able to win) which will drive prices up. My point is that both these scenarios are independent of whether or not the governemnt runs a deficit. It is simply a question of real resources.
OP is always posting weirdos who pretend to be democrats in republican owned spaces, it must be his poopy pass-time
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