• OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world
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    Everything that has happened since Occupy Wall Street is a reaction to the fact that we were this close to eating them.

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      Sadly, I seem to remember Occupy being pretty ineffective. Did I miss something?

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        It was very ineffective, but i also believe this was partly because this was where they (the government and the rich) perfected efforts to undermine protests.

        Specifically targeting anyone that even appears to be emerging as a leader, infiltrating movements in order to sow chaos by conflicting goals and messaging, heavily leaning on the media, false flag elements, etc.

        Not that these tactics were new, but I don’t know if we’ll ever have another MLK. They’ll never allow anyone to become that kind of leader again.

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    their rules don’t stop coming

    Fed to the rules and I hit the ground runnin’

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    Absolutely correct except they’ll do that regardless of whether anyone is threatening to tax them. That just makes them move faster

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    But we didn’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly. We just talked about it. Some of us.

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      How 'bout ya talk a little less than, pal? Everyone wins that way, wouldn’t ya say. Don’t want aanyone to get hurt unneccessarily

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    Meanwhile over half of my $4k bonus for the year disappeared to taxes. Was hoping to use that to cover moving expenses next month, but I guess I’ll scratch the rest out from some other non-available source of money.

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    Corrupt billionaires lobbying isn’t the problem, it’s the bootlickers defending them. A person is only as powerful as the number of his/her supporter.