• regdog@lemmy.world
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    I came up with a rhyme for the occasion: “Happy 4th of july! If you are poor you will die!”

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      Your poem is very appropriate - you might want to break that down into two lines, give it a title, post it on c/poetry@lemmy.world, and don’t forget to add the [OC] tag.

      Let’s just see how it does there. You can count on my up-vote.

      But don’t feel obligated - strictly if you felt like doing this. Have a good day.

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    Surprisingly Kevin Nash is a wrestler i don’t like as a person but he seems to have his head on straight about politics. Meanwhile the undertaker is a trump stooge, stone cold Steve Austin is a wife beating racist and Triple h is a supporter of the moron family he married into. Most of the wrestlers i grew up liking are conservative idiots, Chris Jericho is a Canadian trump supporter

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    I just want to point out that the debt itself is not an issue. The problem with this bill is its cuts in welfare and horrible distributional consequences, but the increased deficit and debt are not.

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        It could, but it isn’t. The US national debt is solely denominated in US dollars: A currency of which the US government is the monopoly issuer. Thus the US government cannot run out of money to pay its obligations.

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    Because black/asian/latino billionaires are dandy and statistically not lobbying for their interest in detriment of humanity like white billionaires?

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          In the US slightly over 96 percent of the top 1.1 million in wealth, are white. No billionaire is good, but he is talking about the US, where almost all the gross wealth inequity is in favor of white people.

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              When you are talking about the US specifically it is pertinent. I know you want strip racist aspects of these things from the conversation, but that is stupid.

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                Why would we talk about the US and why would the race matter there? Why are you adding the racist bits?

                You can’t just say a thing without bothering to explain to a person who clearly doesn’t understand something

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                  Did you not look at the post you are commenting on before you decided to comment? I do not understand how you didn’t know this post was about the US when the person in the post is talking about the US’s independence day holiday, and the announcement of the passing of US legislation on that day, but believed you had a valid opinion on the subject. The whole thing is about the US. If you read a post, and you are uninformed about what it is talking about, or otherwise do not understand it, maybe rather than commenting what’s what about it, you instead look it up, or ask someone first.

                  Kevin Nash, the person who made the post in the screen shot, is talking about the US when he mentions white billionaires. There is a long, detailed, well understood, history of racism within the wealth disparity of the US. Racism that favors white men. If you would like to know that history, you can look it up, it is an easy subject to find information about.

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        Yes, asking why white billionaires are worse is bait! Please make sure to treat it so and you might somehow justify for yourself why you don’t/can’t answer the question!

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        That might be true, but it is also unnecessary to bring race into it. No war but class war is a phrase I really agree with, and making how white the 1% is part of the argument just plays into their game. Nothing would be lost in that argument if it was just happy 1% day.