• Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “We” aren’t going after them for this because they all do it, Trump just said it out loud. Welcome to American politics. This will never get fixed because the people in power stand to lose millions of dollars if it does. People will posture, pander, and pretend, but they will never get a majority willing to take the pay cut and actually fix it. It’s the a glitch in a capitalist republic.

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      3 months ago

      Oh it can totally be fixed. People change their tune really quick when they can’t put food in their mouths, and others change faster within close proximity to wood chippers.

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        3 months ago

        The most recent group of people that acted on their emotional desires in this vain did so in support of the man who is taking money from a billionaire (hundred-billionare?) to stay in power in exchange for changing their policy position to favor the donor. This group failed and many were convicted of federal crimes.

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          3 months ago

          When did people attack billionaires? I’m not talking about the government.