• ViceroTempus@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    We don’t have to be… We could just start taking out Billionaires and taking their wealth and assets through physical force. It certainly looks like a more attractive option by the day to me.

    • amniote@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      The US is a financial sovereign. It has the monopoly over its currency: You don’t need the rich ! Govments within a financial sovereign can decide/agree in congress to pay for things they want with the only limit being that the thing/service is available in that currency. It’s called MMT, as american as apple pie, and no MMT is not communist.

      Why do the rich hate MMT? Because they get paid risk free interest by offering the guvment their money.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe
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      5 days ago

      It certainly looks like a more attractive option by the day to me.

      It’s starting to look like the INEVITABLE option by the day. I don’t see how just having the Dems take control of the government is going to do much if you have MAGA in the background causing all sorts of mayhem, funded by TRILLIONAIRES. We saw it during the Biden administration, and since it actually worked, it will be 1000x worse the next time.

      MAGA has to be decisively crushed and purged from our government and our society, and the Sociopathic Oligarchs’ fortunes and behavior heavily regulated.