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My city can’t afford housing or transit but just spent $150 million building a stadium for live nation. Free taxpayer funded stadiums for corporations to profit from, yay!

[-] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago
[-] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

"Live Nation Entertainment is composed of Live Nation, an events promoter and venue operator, and Ticketmaster, a ticket sales giant. The two companies merged in 2010 and now control an estimated 70% of the ticketing and live event venues market."

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 6 days ago

The world desperately needs more Luigis.

[-] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 days ago

I'd be happy paying taxes if they went to social works and infrastructure and whatnot, but yeah.

Now let's talk about spending 60-80% of my remaining income on rent

Trump can basically print infinite amounts of dollars through the federal reserve.

As we all know, conflicts are hella expensive and often decided by who can stay solvent longer. The fact that trump can just print dollars is extremely problematic here.

I guess the necessary course of action would be to bring the dollar's value to zero, and use an alternative currency instead (such as euro, canadian dollar, mexican pesos).

[-] Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Me trying to take a dump

[-] neuroneiro@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Need an hand to help you back up? You seem to keep falling down.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 120 points 1 week ago

*and actively destroys/dismantles anything one could remotely be proud of having their tax money go to.

I'd gladly fund NASA and scientific research any day of the week, but nooooo gotta feed the poor poor billionaires.

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 days ago

My republican coworkers are complaining about NASA because they always flake when buying our products (we sell electronic stuff to defense related military contractors) because they don't have enough budget.

Fucking idiots don't realize that their political party doesn't even want a NASA

[-] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

but noooo gotta feed the poor

HUH?!

poor billionaires

Aaaahhhh.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 6 days ago
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[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 31 points 1 week ago
  • issuing currency
  • collecting taxes
  • suppressing evidence of child sex trafficking

One of these things is so outrageously unlike the others that it makes me kinda sus of whoever decided to put them all in the same list

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

They're mad at #2 because #1 gives them all the money they need to do #3. So why do they need my money too?

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

All USD is printed. Taxes are the only thing that gives USD its value.

I have a problem with the meme playing footsie with the ideas that taxes are theft and money-printing is fraud.

These are common neo-metallist arguments. And in techie spaces like the fediverse, libertarians like to sneak them into the conversation while going “How do you do, fellow progressives?” before they start pitching NFTs.

[-] corvidenjoyer@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

amerikkka

*Corrupt Government

*Has the ability to print money out of thin air with no downside.

*Forces you pay taxes anyway making you technically complicit in its crimes.

*Uses Its infinite wealth and power to openly protect child predators instead of something good because it is a corrupt government. (The most recent thing in the news cycle)

Interesting how all these things line up together when you don't abstract these things into nothingness. It makes me very sus of the person who decide to reword these so they don't fit on the same list. suswcc

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 points 6 days ago

No disagreement on the corruption, coercion, or economic exploitation.

Nor that there’s a straight line from their ability to manipulate the economic and legal systems… directly to their ability to evade justice for the worst crimes imaginable.

My concern is:

Tech libertarians using a (nearly-) universally-acknowledged and reviled scourge as a pretense to post in progressive spaces and sneak in neo-metallist sentiments like “taxation is theft” and “money-printing is fraud”.

I’m not saying OP or even OOP is one, for sure. But the meme does advance their narrative.

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[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

Love my taxes going to committing genocide and protecting Israel

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 15 points 1 week ago

"You forgot your briefcase!"

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