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Rich People Are the Big Barrier to Stabilizing the Climate
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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Rich people would be regulated and taxed... if not for the protection of conservatives.
If you aren't fighting conservatism, you aren't fighting climate change.
Those that benefit from corruption are unlikely to pass laws that inhibit their own ability to benefit from corruption.
Replace conservatives with "government corruption" and regulatory capture and you'd be more accurate.
It takes more than just bunch of geriatric politicians to corrupt the entire state and federal governments so completely.
Amazon, Nestle, (any weapons manufacturers), etc. those are the ones in control.
And they DO pay "taxes". Trillions of dollars in tax. They're just not paying taxes to the governments in the way we want/think.
Amazon execs are probably constantly looking for ways to reduce the amount they need to spend to control governments.
Think about who benefits most from a non functional government and regulations
Lol! No.
Lol. No. Back at you
For non-clickers.
He posted a tinfoil youtube video about how Billionaires supposedly prefer Democrats
I posted proof he was full of shit, to the tune of 75% of Billionaires donating Republican and (despite the single biggest donor being George Soros to Democrats) 75% of billionaire donations going to Republicans.
Real fact is, 6 top billionaires favor Democrats. The other 14 favor Republicans.
Maybe you shouldn't argue with yourself. It's a really bad look.
For all the people who aren't as easily bullshitted as this user obviously hopes... 1Dime never claimed that billionaires exclusively support Democrats (as the user I'm responding to pretends) - 1Dime very clearly states that billionaires prefer Democrats, and then makes a pretty iron-tight argument as to why they will happily support far-right politics if bog-standard right-wing politics (ie, Democrats) fails to protect their power and privilege to a sufficient degree.
30 minutes on YouTube isn't going to change the reality of our eyes.