zbyte64

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

We tax things that aren't money all the time, see property taxes.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

It's also worth mentioning Gates has made our public education system worse by introducing us to the voucher system. Billionaires are part of why we don't spend our tax dollars on things like universal healthcare or free college.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

I pay property taxes based on the value of my home, but what home is worth billions?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Deskilling blue collar labor is how America gave China a manufacturing edge. What do you think will be the result of deskilling white collar labor?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (15 children)

We don't don't need princes or kings doing PR. If we taxed billionaires out of existence we could fund that and so much more. This guy doesn't get to make up for whatever he was doing on Epstein's plane, at least not without coming clean first.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

Here's a question: why don't you take their advice seriously instead of being so sensitive to their manners?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago

Back when search engines worked.... Pepper Ridge Farms remembers

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That makes it a commodity, not art.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

The important thing is that we use our standards to not engage with what is being said but to pursue purity in our information sources. We should start by disconnecting from the fediverse because you obviously can't trust half of what is being said here.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 3 months ago

And they know what they want because they tell us

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

Is this why modern caltrops ended up on my YouTube FYP?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

I remember family separations was a big deal during his first term. And then there was that US citizen teen who was imprisoned by ICE in Texas....

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