• TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    Yes, keep making enemies of the billionaires that got this administration into office and spent millions of dollars to do so. I’d very much love that for you.

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      Good thing this isn’t a country that came about because a bunch of rich white dudes got tired of being taxed and started a revolution.

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        That’s possibly reframing “no taxation without representation” a bit but I don’t entirely disagree with the sentiment.

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          They thought funding Trump would get them representation. They were wrong. Trump cares about no one but himself.

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          When elections are fraudulent, its the same as no representation. Besides, pretty soon they’ll be suspending elections altogether. It doesn’t get more “no representation” than that.

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                I really don’t understand the aggression, I was talking about the old rich dead people propaganda concerning no taxation without representation 200 years ago, I never said anything about the fuckwads we have today.

                If you think I’m saying something different, explain what you read and allow me the opportunity to clarify my intent.

                Saying I’m full of shit at this point is just asinine.

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      The billionaires have thus far been too cheap to amass private armies to directly enforce their own will. Why, when you can lobby Congress for the price of a used Hyundai Sonata to get the Army to do what you want?

      The government holds the power of violence and Trump holds the power of the government. The billionaires will be reminded of that if they get out of line. Coincidentally, this is the arrangement of modern Russia.

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      In the article, Amazon already back peddled and said it was just in the idea phase and they never really planned on implementing it.

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      He’s brought down Tesla (bankrupt in 2 years, MMW), and now Amazon. We shpuld start a betting pool for who-s next. META? Google? Microsoft?