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Rich people deserve the death penalty

Integrityrespec said:
They make their money through investing, starting and running businesses, and they hire workers who for the most part don't have any of their money tied up in the company. They work for a wage that they agree upon when they take the job. The Rich, take the risks and they make the lions share of the profit. Good companies pay better that bad ones.
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And shitty companies run by idiots go out of business, and then you see broke leftists whining about not being able to pay their student loans because they're suddenly unemployed.
 
RedAkston said:
Sounds like someone has money envy.
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Maybe. Sometimes hatred is driven by envy. Sometimes hatred is driven by a deep feeling of righteous indignation born of injustice. To draw a comparison, some abolitionists might have wished they were born in the South and had a chance to be slave-owning aristocrats and their wanting to abolish slavery was born of envy. But most people who said they hated slavery and wanted it to be abolished hated it because they found it morally abhorrent.
 
I am in the 1%, so probably on execution list.

😄

But I came, if not from poverty, from what would arguably be the economically at the very bottom end of the middle class and at a view points in my early childhood, at the upper end of the lower class. Certainly didn't get anything from my parents. After my mom's death, almost nothing left after nursing home and medical expenses.

Bottom line, I did it all on my own.

Capitalism allowed me to do that.

In a non-capitalistic system, I would have had almost no chance of bettering myself, short of being able to move up the ranks politically.

Which has give me a rather brusque view of anti-capitalism.

Politically and economically, I am first and foremost a capitalist. Every other political position is secondary.

(BTW, YES, there should be government regulations and limits and I eschew the extremist views on the right.)

(But I certainly eschew any anti-capitalist notions that arrive from certain portions of the left and no, I will not paint the entire left as anti-capitalists, as certain portions clearly are not.)

And frankly, Trump and his stupid tariffs and other stuff are as bad for capitalism as many of the proposals coming from the left.
 
Safiel said:
I am in the 1%, so probably on execution list.

😄

But I came, if not from poverty, from what would arguably be the economically at the very bottom end of the middle class and at a view points in my early childhood, at the upper end of the lower class. Certainly didn't get anything from my parents. After my mom's death, almost nothing left after nursing home and medical expenses.

Bottom line, I did it all on my own.

Capitalism allowed me to do that.

In a non-capitalistic system, I would have had almost no chance of bettering myself, short of being able to move up the ranks politically.

Which has give me a rather brusque view of anti-capitalism.

Politically and economically, I am first and foremost a capitalist. Every other political position is secondary.

(BTW, YES, there should be government regulations and limits and I eschew the extremist views on the right.)
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Why? Every other political position is secondary. Do you think that the wealthy top-one-percent-of-their-country capitalists who, when push came to shove, sided overwhelmingly with the likes of Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet against socialists thought any differently than you do? If Donald Trump was declared dictator-for-life, do you expect any of us to believe you would do anything other than bend the knee to him?

Safiel said:
(But I certainly eschew any anti-capitalist notions that arrive from certain portions of the left and no, I will not paint the entire left as anti-capitalists, as certain portions clearly are not.)

And frankly, Trump and his stupid tariffs and other stuff are as bad for capitalism as many of the proposals coming from the left.
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Glad to hear it.
 
Felis Leo said:
Why? Every other political position is secondary. Do you think that the wealthy top 1% of their country capitalists who, when push came to shove, sided overwhelmingly with the likes of Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet against socialists thought any differently than you do? If Donald Trump was declared dictator-for-life, do you expect any of us to believe you would do anything other than bend the knee to him?



Glad to hear it.
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I have VERY publicly denounced Trump, so if Trump becomes a dictator, I am ALREADY likely on my way to the Everglades Auschwitz.

I am not worried about Trump. He will likely be mentally worse than Biden by 2027/2028 and Trumpism will melt away when the economic shit hits the fan.
 
And it is largely poor and stupid people that put him in office in the first place.
 
Safiel said:
And it is largely poor and stupid people that put him in office in the first place.
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It was also a lot of people who couldn't stomach what Harris would have done to this country after 4 years of sleepy Joe.

I long for the days when we had a viable candidate for both major parties where we didn't have to swallow our pride to vote for one or the other. It's turned into voting against the "other" candidate instead of voting for one of them.
 
Parker_Chess said:
They make their money off exploiting others for their greed. They have their nice summer and winter homes meanwhile slashing benefits. Their people work 50-60 hours a week and they enjoy their golf. They deserve to be burnt at the stake. **** these people
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It’s best to go easy on the hard stuff on a Saturday evening.
 
Safiel said:
I am in the 1%, so probably on execution list.

😄

But I came, if not from poverty, from what would arguably be the economically at the very bottom end of the middle class and at a view points in my early childhood, at the upper end of the lower class. Certainly didn't get anything from my parents. After my mom's death, almost nothing left after nursing home and medical expenses.

Bottom line, I did it all on my own.

Capitalism allowed me to do that.

In a non-capitalistic system, I would have had almost no chance of bettering myself, short of being able to move up the ranks politically.

Which has give me a rather brusque view of anti-capitalism.

Politically and economically, I am first and foremost a capitalist. Every other political position is secondary.

(BTW, YES, there should be government regulations and limits and I eschew the extremist views on the right.)

(But I certainly eschew any anti-capitalist notions that arrive from certain portions of the left and no, I will not paint the entire left as anti-capitalists, as certain portions clearly are not.)

And frankly, Trump and his stupid tariffs and other stuff are as bad for capitalism as many of the proposals coming from the left.
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I’m in the same place and apparently also slated for apparent execution. I came from distinctively lower middle class immigrants (legal!) with strong education, work ethic and a competitive spirit who didn’t have any meaningful wealth but did have an amazing “spend every last cent on the children” mindset. The one thing I would add to your post is that capitalism augmented by (a) a resistance to corruption and (b) a resistance to racism was my key enabler. The former because, well, my parents emigrated from on-paper capitalist systems so corrupt that meritocracy was never truly possible, and the latter because there are places in the world where your skin color overrules capitalist proclivities and the America I was fortunate to grow up in (at least at the time, lately things feel different…) was moderately blind to my particular skin color.

I’ll always consider myself either a capitalist-friendly fiscally conservative liberal, or a deeply socially compassionate conservative. But truth be told, “capitalist meritocracy with safeguards to prevent the worst impulse of evil human beings, and let’s also be willing to give” is always going to be my sweet spot.
 
Parker_Chess said:
They make their money off exploiting others for their greed. They have their nice summer and winter homes meanwhile slashing benefits. Their people work 50-60 hours a week and they enjoy their golf. They deserve to be burnt at the stake. **** these people
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You need to get off what ever you're on !

Look there are NO LAWS preventing "YOU" or any wonderful Lib-t*** from becoming "Rich People" and CREATING businesses/industries and show THE WORLD how a good Rich Person should live !!!..............

So go DO IT ! ......???.... What are you waiting for?

"Creating Wealth" is a GOOD thing for society, and the people who do that SHOULD BE RICH !....
Realize "YOU" can become the Next Elon Musk and give away 95% of your earnings just to shut whiny little petty
people up ( Who think the rich should get the death penalty) !....... or what ev's

Just think about it, "IF" you were a Rich person and gave more money to your employees than you would
have all the best/top notch people working for you and all your competition(The bad Rich People) would go away! .....

Go do it! We are all rooting for you !
 
Parker_Chess said:
They make their money off exploiting others for their greed. They have their nice summer and winter homes meanwhile slashing benefits. Their people work 50-60 hours a week and they enjoy their golf. They deserve to be burnt at the stake. **** these people
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Like I said the morning after the election, it's going to be a fun 4 years reading these kind of threads. DP is unwittingly providing a public service for people like yourself because it keeps you from screaming on a street corner.

Lemme get back to my golf......


Maltby and Tour Edge.webp
 
Parker_Chess said:
They make their money off exploiting others for their greed. They have their nice summer and winter homes meanwhile slashing benefits. Their people work 50-60 hours a week and they enjoy their golf. They deserve to be burnt at the stake. **** these people
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Wow. Unhinged call for murder.
 
anatta said:
awesome thread title. plunder their belongings then burn them at the stake
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It is the goal of the ideological left that we all live in abject poverty. It gives them more to complain about and the one thing that makes a lefty more satisfied than anything else is when they destroy some person or some thing that they are unwilling to achieve on their own.
 
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