I propose we call it the Luigi Movement, after Luigi Mario the less famous brother of Mario Mario.
Something with a sharp downward movement. On an unrelated note. I like French furniture.
Billionaires need to be liquidated.
Liquified *
Sounds like a job for Brunt - FCA
Fiat-Chrystler Automobiles?
Financial Corporation Associate
America needs to curb stomp billionaires.
We need a new social contract that makes accumulating more than a regular lifetime’s amount of money unappealing.
We need solutions that are acceptable to all parties even if there are losers. The trick is getting the losers to accept it without coercion.
The biggest hurdle to starting any sort of revolution or meaningful societal change in the US is finding leadership willing to risk having a target on their backs to rally the masses to action. Anyone willing to be the first to step up will be harassed, pursued, abused, and potentially killed.
That should be easy in the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave
Dunno your country, but if you’re not from the US, the people that say those jingoistic celebrations of the country are the most right wing of us. I live in a very heavily right wing state and patriotism is laid on so fucking thick because if somehow people were to take off the patriotism glasses they’d figure out they’re getting robbed blind.
There are plenty of leaders to follow, plenty of groups to join, plenty of events to attend.
This type of information isn’t broadcast on the local news. You have to go looking for like-minded people.
There is no need to curb billionaire‘s power if you simply curb billionaires.
Gee, if only we’d tried that before.
Remember the “1%” protests against the billionaire class?
It didn’t matter, because every time people contribute to a 401k or go shopping at a chain box store, they add power to the 1%. People say they want to fight the ultra-rich, but they don’t really want to fight. Nobody wants to sacrifice their comfort or security. We know from history how this ends…
The most practical forms of direct action benefit its participants individually. Classic example is joining a union, which will give you better compensation at their expense.
Unilateral sacrifices just exhaust you and accomplish little. Become a part of the new economy in which you want to live.
You are right that worker unions should have the weight of collective bargaining behind them, enough to affect the big changes. However, the US has demonstrated again and again that it will just crush unions if they start to irritate the ownership class a little too much. Like what Reagan did to air traffic controllers, what Scott Walker did to the Wisconsin public employees union, and the 2022 railway worker labor dispute under Biden.
Unions have been defanged by decades of ownership class lobbying and regulatory capture. The executive branch has no qualms about neutralizing and marginalizing union workers who step too far out of line. Something much bigger than labor unions is needed, but I’m afraid the ownership class has us all so exhausted from overwork and the media too wary of our neighbors for that to happen. For the public to build the kind of movement it needs will take both a hugely impactful economic downturn that affects everyone, and as much as I wish it weren’t the case, an immensely charismatic figure to pull them together. Whenever someone with an anti-status quo message and the charisma to start pulling people together starts to gain traction, they invariably end up on the business end of the CIA.
It’s hard not to feel defeated and deflated, especially when we’re all so exhausted.
I guess we should do nothing then because a half-assed initiative failed
Yes, the initiative failed. They have guns and all the money. We have memes. Game over.
Guess you deserve what you get then
One of life’s great ironies is that people rarely get what they deserve.
We need a WAR on greed.
Yes we agree now what
- Use p2p social networks (you’ve already started!) and free and open source software
- Get to know your neighbors
- Talk to coworkers about pay, benefits, working conditions, and unions
- Save as much money as you can outside of the American economy
- Buy a gun, learn to maintain it, and spend time at the range
- Participate in peaceful protests but be prepared to be attacked by police
You missed “run for local office and replace those cronies in charge”
I wish it hadn’t come to that … it ought to be more straightforward to roll back the clock, as MAGAts want to do. Roll back all those tax cuts for the wealthy. Roll back Supreme Court decisions letting them avoid taxes. Roll back letting corporate money dominate politics. Roll back union busting.
Income taxes used to be very progressive, in that wealthy people paid a much higher percentage. However now that ladder stops, the percentage stops rising, and ever more wealth and money accumulation can be defined as “not income”, so the wealthy pay the least in taxes (by percentage).
Rolling back these changes should help narrow the huge gap of income inequality, reduce corporate ownership of our government, and give ordinary people more of a voice
The percentage of sociopaths involved with defining a society should never be greater than zero.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
This is Ralph Nader’s 2000 campaign. Congratulations on catching up.
I was at the debate protest where they wouldn’t allow him in, even with an actual ticket to the debate. And then SCOTUS signaled the bgenning of the end by appointing new world order Georgie boy.
No… really?
If by movement you mean bullets…you’re almost there.
