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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Watch him get some serious prison time while the bourgeois get not even a slap on the wrist.

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The worst part is that none of what he exposed really showed anything illegal, at least if he was the guy who leaked to propublica which seems likely (https://archive.ph/61L1d). So he will likely get the five years (or per file?! Idk), but the bourgeoisie won't even get a stern talking to.

[-] envis10n@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago
[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Billionaires do charity stunts for PR purposes and so they can effectively write-off their own taxes while also taking money out of one pocket and putting it in the other to the simpering cheers of millions of sycophants. I call it the Bill Gates Maneuver.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Excerpt of Condition of the Working Class in England, by Engels, 1845

from the section titled "The Attitude of the Bourgeoisie Towards the Proletariat"

Let no one believe, however, that the "cultivated" Englishman openly brags with his egotism. On the contrary, he conceals it under the vilest hypocrisy. What? The wealthy English fail to remember the poor? They who have founded philanthropic institutions, such as no other country can boast of! Philanthropic institutions forsooth! As though you rendered the proletarians a service in first sucking out their very life-blood and then practising your self-complacent, Pharisaic philanthropy upon them, placing yourselves before the world as mighty benefactors of humanity when you give back to the plundered victims the hundredth part of what belongs to them! Charity which degrades him who gives more than him who takes; charity which treads the downtrodden still deeper in the dust, which demands that the degraded, the pariah cast out by society, shall first surrender the last that remains to him, his very claim to manhood, shall first beg for mercy before your mercy deigns to press, in the shape of an alms, the brand of degradation upon his brow. But let us hear the English bourgeoisie's own words. It is not yet a year since I read in the Manchester Guardian the following letter to the editor, which was published without comment as a perfectly natural, reasonable thing:

"MR. EDITOR,– For some time past our main streets are haunted by swarms of beggars, who try to awaken the pity of the passers-by in a most shameless and annoying manner, by exposing their tattered clothing, sickly aspect, and disgusting wounds and deformities. I should think that when one not only pays the poor-rate, but also contributes largely to the charitable institutions, one had done enough to earn a right to be spared such disagreeable and impertinent molestations. And why else do we pay such high rates for the maintenance of the municipal police, if they do not even protect us so far as to make it possible to go to or out of town in peace? I hope the publication of these lines in your widely- circulated paper may induce the authorities to remove this nuisance; and I remain,– Your obedient servant, "A Lady."

There you have it! The English bourgeoisie is charitable out of self-interest; it gives nothing outright, but regards its gifts as a business matter, makes a bargain with the poor, saying: "If I spend this much upon benevolent institutions, I thereby purchase the right not to be troubled any further, and you are bound thereby to stay in your dusky holes and not to irritate my tender nerves by exposing your misery. You shall despair as before, but you shall despair unseen, this I require, this I purchase with my subscription of twenty pounds for the infirmary!" It is infamous, this charity of a Christian bourgeois! And so writes "A Lady"; she does well to sign herself such, well that she has lost the courage to call herself a woman! But if the "Ladies" are such as this, what must the "Gentlemen" be? It will be said that this is a single case; but no, the foregoing letter expresses the temper of the great majority of the English bourgeoisie, or the editor would not have accepted it, and some reply would have been made to it, which I watched for in vain in the succeeding numbers. And as to the efficiency of this philanthropy, Canon Parkinson himself says that the poor are relieved much more by the poor than by the bourgeoisie; and such relief given by an honest proletarian who knows himself what it is to be hungry, for whom sharing his scanty meal is really a sacrifice, but a sacrifice borne with pleasure, such help has a wholly different ring to it from the carelessly-tossed alms of the luxurious bourgeois.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/ch13.htm

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I'd link that in the future a lot more often, but way too many smuglord types would say "Too Long, Didn't Read!"

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't read it either, did read the book once and marked quite a bit as hot takes that remain too hot to handle even in 2023.

[-] Mokey@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago
[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I'd like to see the numbers. Do these bozos even pay anything?

[-] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was already published by Propublica. This is the person who leaked that information to them a few years ago and why we know almost all the US billionaires pay almost zero taxes.

https://archive.ph/61L1d

[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[-] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago
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