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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Economic inequality being one of the biggest drivers of democratic back sliding. Shitty part is that authoritarian doesn’t really offer anything better.

The wealthiest people of this world have created a world that’s tearing itself apart. And their only hedge is the thought that we will all be too busy killing each other that we forget completely about them. Hence these megalomaniacs that appear as distraction to keep us fighting each other.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guillotine has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guillotine, the one thing the rich fear.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'd almost think they don't with the way they've been carrying on lately

[–] remus989 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's been awhile since they last saw it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe we should bring it back, just saying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’d rather chop off their bank accounts, stock holdings, political contributions, exploitive labor practices, and monopolies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It will take years for some counties to figure this out and then suddenly, there is a run for Italian made piano string. In other despot run counties, Christmas Eve will be seen as somewhat of a bummer to a defiant couple staring down the barrel of a gun.