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  • vivadanang@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlWelcome to late stage capitalism
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    8 months ago

    Capitalism with the unionization rate of that time would be much better than what we have today.

    True. And the taxes: Eisenhower individual income above $200,000 was taxed at 90%, above $300,000 at 91%, and above $400,000 at 92%. That’d trim Musk Bezos etc. down to size, fund education, fund social security etc.

    Corporate taxes topped out at 52% - the tax rate was 30% for the first $25,000 in profits that a company made, and 52% for anything over that amount.

    Even with inflation taken into account - $300,000 in 1950 = $3,772,843.22 in 2023… entire generations have been robbed by the right wing.




  • We need to figure out ways to reorient China’s ambitions from an impossible ask - Taiwan, the 9-dash-line, and the South China Sea, and point out the obvious low hanging fruit, that wouldn’t require force projection / airborne and naval landings, and a world class navy to oppose literally every other country in the pacific, and invest those resources where they could gain massive ground, repatriate ethnic chinese and repatriate Chinese cities that they were forced to give up and still want back, like Vladivostok. Russia is sick. China is already pushing for greater influence in the -stan countries - the move only requires a will for China to head north, capturing enormous amounts of land, resources and new citizens / customers for it’s industries. And unlike the Pacific, I don’t know that many will want to save them after the last few years… I don’t see Belarus scrambling resources to send to defend Irkutsk.



  • No one is downplaying what Bush did, we’re accentuating how excruciatingly bad Trump’s actions were. See you comprehend that Bush’s crimes were horrible, you’re simply incapable of understanding that Trump’s were much, much worse.

    Many executives get their countries embroiled in foreign conflicts. Few actively attempt to subvert their own government upon their dismissal; they literally are the worst of the worst, and your inability to fathom this is either feigned or revealing.





  • vivadanang@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlmeanwrule at Tesla
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    9 months ago

    this meme is 100% correct - it’s the electric edsel, right up there with the homer car.

    billions in the hole for ‘freedumb of speech’.

    it’s good to see his bullshit finally catch up with him. Hope his failure doesn’t take out spaceX tho, reusable rocks (not his idea) are a winner.



  • vivadanang@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlrules for thee, but not for me
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    9 months ago

    Have the rules voted by the community, and moderators elected/impeached by its community.

    lol so you want to increase the amount of work mods do and then vote them out when they do shit you don’t like.

    here’s an idea: become a mod yourself. do the unpaid work of cleaning up the trash so other people can whine in entitled posts like this about how all the mods are trash. jfc