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MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours ago

An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax

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An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax

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MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours ago
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    We should schedule a march for guillotines that same day

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    I’m here for the march, where do I park my Cybertruck?

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      Just leave it in that bicycle lane over there. There’s room on the crosswalk.

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    It’s not going to happen and we all know it, it’s funny as fuck to imagine and on some deeply repressed level they know it, that’s why they knew it would get publicity.

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    The one march that wont have any threats of violence against it, because the people that do that are bootlickers

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    LOL, this is going to be hilarious.

    I seem to remember some group would dress up in top hats and monocles with satirical signs supporting the parasitic elite.

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    I see a bunch of billionaires in one place as an opportunity.

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      9 out of 10 who claim to be billionaires at that march, won’t be billionaires.

      And the other one is lying, too.

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      I think that’s exactly why they probably won’t have any showing up.

      Or else they send proxies. If I was some assistant for one of these fuckers and they asked me to go, I think I’d call in sick that day. No way I’d want to be a meat shield for one of these dickheads.

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      Like the guy wouldn’t just pay a bunch of people to show up

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        Actually came here to say this. This will be like those “supporters” that showed up to watch Pedonald come down that escalator. Paid actors.

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      We need eggs ,lots and lots off them ,NOW

      • ameancow@lemmy.world
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        You mean for the batter? Sure but we also need a lot of frying oil.

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          Bring the Mexicans,

      • vpol@feddit.uk
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        Eggs? You guys need drones. Lots and lots of them. Now.

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          Surely not like that scene in season 3 of Lioness in Mexico? We definitely should not model the approach on that scene. That would be theoretically wrong.

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          🤔 good idea drones dropping eggs on billionaires ,then we have a breakfast with beacon and eggs ,sounds great

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            Bacon must be crispy.

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              Yep

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        Eggs? In this economy?

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          Choose rotten eggs

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      Yep hopefully they cluster together

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    I assume they just hire people to march on their behalf.

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      And then stiff them off their pay.

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        You laugh but here in Australia when the Labor government was pushing for a Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) the big miners made their staff go attend a “protest” on Perth Foreshore during business hours.

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    I’ll eat my car is there is a single Billionaire spends any amount of time at these protests

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      I agree. I’d be surprised if even some centimillionaires would be there…I imagine seeing counterprotesters up close and personal would be a frightening prospect for them.

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      I’m told by a neighbor, she used to live in the neighborhood where this clownshow is starting his March, that it’s a reasonably affluent area and several billionaires do actually live there. I suspect you are absolutely correct and none of them will show. Wish it wasn’t quite so far away, but there’s no way I could get to SF quick enough to watch the shenanigans that this is gonna cause.

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    I’ll bring the guillotine.

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      Someone should have one pre-built and waiting at the end point of their march route.

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        Why wait for the end? Corral them in at the start and funeral then into a wood chipper.

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          I like where your head’s at.

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      Bring the large suv

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      Guillotine - The Coup

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    Yes, get them all in one place…

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    They may call that a walk among the plebe, the 1% march doubt could be larger than a neighbourhood meeting…

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    “Vilifying billionaires is popular. Losing them is expensive.”

    If this isn’t a Honeypot it is absolutely hilarious that think that billionaires being “lost” is them leaving the country.

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      It sounds like yet another dumbass that had their brain scrambled by the horrible sci-fi writer named Ayn Rand, who was even worse at philosophy than she was at writing prose. Surprised they aren’t just outright saying they are threatening to “go Galt”. 🙄

      There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

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        Atlas Shrugged is insufferably pretentious trash.

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    Wow.

    Turns out, if you try hard enough, you can find a protest that you want your police state to crack down on.

    If only one more rally ever gets tear-gassed, I hope it’s this one.

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      It won’t. But the counter protesters will.

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    So what, there’d be dozens at best, and the rest hired? Fuck billionaire thieves. They shouldn’t exist.

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      Fuck billionaires completely.

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    The stupidity is palpable.

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