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this guy's bubble popping (and the tech press' scurrying to explain why they endlessly mythologized yet another unremarkable asshole) is going to be delicious

one of the two major U.S. parties literally just passed a bill that creates a permanent unaccountable masked gestapo funded by mass human death and he's all fucking butthurt because one man in NYC suggested billionaires pay their fucking taxes

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Yeah, I knew I hated this guy early on. Ending billionaires will make everyone's life better. And they can just imagine how much money they can save when they don't need as much security around them 24/7 because we don't want them off the mortal coil any more.

I don't know but if I were a billionaire, I would simply live a wonderfully rich life with the people I cared about, travel wherever I wanted to go, and shut the fuck up so hard that the media would forget that I existed. This should not be hard.

They want obeisance, blind worship, and a weird parental fondness, all at the same time. They may just need someone to pat them on the head and say "you're a clever little business monster, despite at all the pain and suffering you cause just by existing, we still love you!"

Objectively, no you wouldn't, which is why Billionaire wealth shouldn't exist. No Billionaires just chill with their money, because that level of money is an economy in itself, not an income. It's incredibly inefficient and morally bankrupt, to put that much of our resources into one person.

"...does not think billionaires should exist" is purposefully scary framing. It mirrors the framing around Israel. It is wrong that they attribute something to Mamdani that he would never say. He frames it differently because he obviously doesn't mean they should be exterminated.

I hope the societal parasites think we mean they should be exterminated, tbh. We should all be shouting “billionaires should not exist!” with our whole chest. However the oligarchs choose to interpret that threat is not our concern right now as long as they’re scared, imo.

also I don't want everyone to have private jets and multiple mansions and weddings where they rent out half a fucking city. I want *no one* to have any of these things.