• Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    461·
    22 days ago

    The fucking gall this billionaire POS has to utter the phrase “live within our means.”

  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
    381·
    21 days ago

    Shut up, shut up, shut up please just shtfu already elon. How are people like him and bezos controlling the world? I swear we celebrate and praise mediocre morons in the US.

    As a nation we have lost 30 years of progress because we give the loudest most idiotic people to ever live a platform to spew their collective nonsense. Take me back to 2010 where the internet was still fun and not just some massive propaganda machine for the uber wealthy and political nut jobs

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        21 days ago

        81-89. I don’t think Reagan’s presidency or party really explains it, because we see it rise shortly and then fall, both during Bill Clinton’s presidency (93-2001). So George H.W. Bush raised taxes during his term, and then Clinton cut them again, but did so while balancing the budget (Clinton ran a surplus).

        Reagan certainly slashed taxes, but so did Clinton, and to a similar degree.

  • bamfic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    21 days ago

    There is no middle class. There are workers and owners. If you own real estate and stonks you are still a worker unless you can live off of just investments. This is designed to corrupt and neuter you. You have enough skin in the game of the owners to not want to oppose them, but not enough to actually be them. Unless you hope to retire, at which point you make the transition from working class to owning class, but only at the end of your life, if you even make it that far, and often owning very little.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    22 days ago

    I wonder if when he says “necessary” he’s referring to some longtermism weird BS.

    I mean, he’s definitely referring to some weird BS. But I wonder whether specifically it’s longtermism BS.

    • takeda@lemmy.world
      20·
      22 days ago

      I read recently “On Freedom” by Timothy Snyder and he mentions that. Billionaires are sucking or wealth and when we suffer, we are told that this is temporary and toward a greater good (which never comes).

      Sadly it is successful and a lot of Americans believe that.

      It opened my eyes seeing how we are set up to fight each other (blaming minorities) while oligarchs are making our lives more miserable by hoarding country’s wealth.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
      91·
      22 days ago

      He is, though he’s wrong about Trump’s plans being anything beneficial in the long term. But even what he’s saying about any part of it being harmful is a contradiction of Trump’s claims about the economy

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
    16·
    22 days ago

    Bitch, we’re already going through hardship. How much more hardship do we need to go through just so you can keep your power trip going?

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
      4·
      22 days ago

      As much as you possibly can. Remember that in a neoliberal utopia, each week you’d bring tens of thousands of dollars in for a company, be compensated with minimum wage and then hand those wages straight back to the nearest billionaire in exchange for food and shelter. If you have any money left at the end of the week, that’s abhorrent to them.

    • Karjalan@lemmy.world
      5·
      21 days ago

      Anyone that actually cares about the economy would see that every time the republicans get in they fuck it, and every time the democrats get in they fix it.

      But they don’t care about reality, only their feelings

  • psmgx@lemmy.world
    2·
    21 days ago

    It’s necessary for me not to have TSLAs price tank and the Saudis take recover loss out of me, pound-of-flesh style.

    Or, probably how he’s guilty of a ton of ITAR violations related to Saudis, SpaceX rockets, plus Russia and Starlink