I’m here to discuss the original image. Is Jesus shooting America at a sinner? Who is the baby?
He’s shooting France at someone.
USA???
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Are I think what you’re looking for.
I think in some cases, daddy issues play a part in it. I know a few guys who clearly found a substitute for their lacklustre fathers in strongman figures, be they CEOs or grifters. Having a figure like this to fall into line with does seem to make them feel more secure in themselves.
I don’t know a huge amount of those, but I do know a lot of men who had solid fathers who were there for them and listened as much as they spoke. They were attentive, caring and solid parents. None of those kids grew up to feel personally threatened when their favourite billionaire, CEO or social media grifter is critiqued or shown for what they are.
I was having a chat with a friend recently about the cost of living in the UK. I mentioned one issue is the wealth inequality and billionaires are the problem.
“If we do a wealth tax they’ll leave!”
Sent this link https://equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-base/billionaire-britain-2025/ to explain how a large proportion of billionaires just extract wealth.
Not entirely sure they were convinced. They have the mentality that billionaires create jobs for everyone and are super hard workers that worked their way up.
I don’t want to just sit back and call people who look up to billionaires idiots. I want to be able to have strong compelling points to make them change their mind.
If you do a wealth tax, they would absolutely leave.
Not if you have a 38% exit tax like Norway.
Damn! I didn’t know there was actually a solution to the Marxist problem of capital flight!
The obvious solution is to simply not allow the capitalists to take anything but the clothes on their backs as they flee for their wretched lives
Unfortunately that’s not possible unless the state seizes their assets.
Oh nooo…
The last time a country seized the assets of the wealthy, half the world declared war against it. Be careful what you wish for.
Yes, that’s sort of what I was getting at. Historically speaking there’s no good examples of asking capitalists nicely for things being a productive strategy.
Good.
How?
They are a menace to society and there existence is an embarrassment.
Does kicking them out of the country cause them to cease to exist?
If everyone does it, yeah. Kinda.
Agreed. Capitalism cannot be brought down without global unity.
I don’t want them here, ideally they would pay a crap ton of taxes or rot in a cell, and stop buying out the legal systems.
Agreed but unfortunately we don’t live in an ideal world
And then what? If they want to take their wealth with them they’d need to sell up, so the job creation would remain, the assets would remain, possibly the currency would be slightly weaker, and so importa would be slightly more expensive, which would encourage the local economy… What is the awful outcomes you’re imagining from the ultra rich leaving?
Did you not read the comment you’re responding to? Them leaving would be a good thing dumbass
Explain how, smartass.
Try reading the article linked in the comment you were responding to you fucking moron
The article doesn’t explain how kicking them out would be a good thing you fucking imbecile.
It explains in great mathematical detail how they cost more than they’re worth, fucking duh, learn to read
You can’t blame billionaires for people continuing to think that GDP benefits them.
Because they hope to become one of them
Or at least an “Uncle Tom” who will receive preferential treatment
I’ve heard this a lot. I cannot think of anyone who actually thinks they have a shot at being a billionaire. Maybe a shot at winning the lottery, which is still crazy, but the taxes are predetermined for that so it’s not like they’re going to increase on a winner after they’ve won and already paid. There’s always the steady drumbeat of “taxes are evil” from everyone living in a fantasyland that modern civilized life will continue without them.
IMO it’s more of a fear thing. We’ve been told they’re the “job creators” or whatever (even Musk has only created 100k jobs out of 163 million jobs despite being the richest person in the country). You’re already getting their “preferential treatment” and people are afraid they’ll withdraw their favor, as meager as it is, despite the damage they do to everything else.
Americans are stupid, hateful and willing to shit all over each other if they think they will personally benefit, even if know it is only temporary
Selfishness is baked into what passes for culture in that backwards dump
Brainwashed, mentally ill, non critical thinker.
Pick one.
Don’t forget bot. Bots are cheap. Billionaires can pay for lots of them
Non critical thinker as bots and sockpuppets don’t think.
Wanted come write this too. And to add people who feel peer pressured by said bots
Which one of these is a bot account or a fishing email?
I’m fine with fishing emails. Phishing ones are the problematic ones.
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i’ve never actually heard anyone defend billionaires irl. i don’t really know who would do that.
i think lots of people are still stuck in the 20th century mindset “if i work hard, i can make it”. it just takes a while to wake up from a deep dream.
I have. Lots of people are strongly Faith-Based, and have accepted living their lives being told what to do by people in authority. They think God, Jesus, preachers, bosses, cops, politicians, wealthy people, celebrities, influencers, etc. all know better than they do, so they defer to them: “Those people care about me, and my safety, so I’ll do what they tell me to do, and they won’t get mad and hurt me.”
“Spending more than a billion dollars just on boats is a lot but not when daddy Gaben does it. Gaben gives me a product I like, he is therefore a good billionaire.”
Crazy to see comments about how it’s never seen when half the steam threads turn into a circle jerk for this guy. Imagine calling it a benzostick instead of a fire stick as a sign of affection, like the simps do with the “GabeCube”.
I see so many “everyone it the comments want to suck Gabes dick and claim they hate billionaires” and I’ve never once seen a comment in one of these threads defending him or justifying his wealth.
The bar is so low, actually making a nice product you can buy instead of enshitifying everything constitutes as a ground for much praise over here. It’s a grim reality.
