What group of billionaires? What’s the context here?
Just curious, are you american or that white kind of European?
No worries either way. But yea america is in a very visible stage of capitalist controlled oligarchy. The billionaires who run said oligarchy are using propaganda to make it seem like the oligarchy will help the voters who voted for the puppets of said oligarchy.
Ummmm hope this helps or I die before i need to pay a utility bill for oxygen!
Elon Musk and his ilk
You had your test handed back face down, didn’t you
I don’t know what this means or why people are downvoting me. I’m genuinely asking a question
I don’t really follow the news so I’m guessing it’s something I missed
Sadly you’ve been replied to by a bunch of folks who rudely assume a very USA-centric view of the world.
This post is talking about USA politics, where the leader of the country is currently a piece of shit criminal who is allowing billionaires (eg Elon Musk) to do whatever they want and dismantle long established government institutions, under the lie that it’s in the best interests of the country.
I’m honestly glad you haven’t heard about it, you must have done a better job than me of filtering out US news and rhetoric!
If you cant figure it out, I cant help you
Why are you so rude to this person? You know other countries exist outside of North America and folks from anywhere in the world should be welcome on Lemmy even if they don’t know anything about US politics or whatever?
Who said they were not welcome? All i was saying was figure it out. Its very obvious
R U nuts?
What tool do people use to make these images with big text? Let alone why bother generating an image where text alone would have been equally sufficient, what even causes these things to come into existence?
Also I 100% agree with the text itself
Let alone why bother generating an image where text alone would have been equally sufficient, what even causes these things to come into existence?
- Facebook text -> screenshot
- Sharing text on every platform isn’t always allowed, images however…
Because some people don’t know how to copy and paste text, and other people don’t discourage these posts by downvoting them.
Stands out against raw text posts, on here, but probably originating on sites like Facebook.
Yeah that seems like some Facebook shit
These guys will let you get mangled in an industrial accident if it would save them a quick buck.
Elon wanted safety colors removed from some warehouse/factory, because he didn’t like how they looked. People got in accidents because of that.
So not even to save money. They’ll risk your life just for aesthetics.
The Johnstown Flood
Rich people tampered with a dam so they could have a nicer ride.
Development included lowering the dam to make its top wide enough to hold a road for a carriageway and putting a fish screen in the spillway. Workers lowered the dam, which had been 72 feet (22 m) high, by 3 feet (0.91 m).[10] These alterations are thought to have increased the vulnerability of the dam. Moreover, a system of relief pipes and valves, a feature of the original dam which had previously been sold off for scrap, was not replaced. The club had no way of lowering the water level in the lake in case of an emergency.
I am on my scooter today putting up these flyers; I encourage everyone to spread the news
Watch a bunch of bootlicking red hats turn up and buy twice as much as they normally do to “own the libs” in some way.
24 hours… lol
They’re testing how many people they can get on board to do this. Consider it a trial run.
How long do you think a strike would need to be for to be effective?
And suppose we start with that? Everyone’d be like “that’s way too long”. So let’s start with a day and build from there. And if a day makes them take action then everyone’s a winner.
Gotta start somewhere…
I hope this workouts!
Bro we’re nowhere close to bottoming out, so I hope you’re ready. You’ll feel it when we pass the point of no return.
Methinks that has passed, the bottom is a long way off yet, however point of no return is long gone
The point of no return was when a bunch of wealthy slavers decided to create a country by and for themselves. Everything else is just projection and propaganda.
Especially when the first things they do are start taking apart consumer and environmental protections, disband social safety nets, increase taxes (tariffs) on imported goods, attack FEMA, and stop farm subsidies, all of which hurt the working class.
Not only do people still believe the ridiculous lie, they believe it despite the mountain of evidence they don’t give a fuck about you.
You hate the Republican party so much you support government waste over accountability for our tax dollars. That’s completely insane.
The reason you are being down voted is because the current administration is not doing that. They SAY that’s what they are doing, but pay attention to their actual actions and who is benefitting. Look at the outcomes. It is the opposite of what you want.
Here is the crazy thing, I am very left wing, but I agree with you on the point of bringing down wasteful spending and that we should have accountability for government spending and such. But Trump and Elon are not at all doing those things. They are in this for their own selfish desires and agendas and they have convinced a lot of people otherwise. They are cutting the parts of government that oppose them or that they don’t like and none of that is going to have any significant impact on the budget. Go look up how much we spend on our defense budget or other big costs. Maybe we should stop sending bombs all over the world? Maybe we don’t need to spend more than half the other countries on earth combined? Maybe we shouldn’t have a system that allows a dozen people to have more wealth stolen and hoarded from the rest of the country? Maybe we need some fair wages for our hard work so that you and I can be a hard working American that gets fairly paid for our labors? The American Dream doesn’t work if you can work your whole life and still be in debt, while someone else can rake in billions without working at all, but simply because they own you and the company you work for.
I would wager that you and I want the same things. To be able to work and provide for ourselves and our family, to have enough to eat and have a home and hobbies and enjoy life. We want to feel like we contribute to our community. We want to create things and fix things and make things around us better for ourselves and others. We want to love and be loved. We want a government that REPRESENTS the people and invests in things that benefit us and help us and doesn’t waste it or tax us unfairly for it.
So why do you think the Republican party is helping you when they have a track record of voting for tax cuts to the billionaires and mega corporations and simultaneously raising your individual taxes? Why are they telling you to fear and hate immigrants when they are the backbone and the reason our country even started? Why are they telling you to fear and hate trans people that just want to exist and be who they are? Why are they NOT saying a word about the trillions of wasted money on military? The trillions stolen from us hard working Americans that goes into the pockets of the already rich like Elon? Could it be that they are lying to us?
Go look at the actions they make and look past the words they speak and tell me what you find.
Lmao you think what’s happening now is going to increase accountability?
Explain how it hasn’t.
No, because you are clearly arguing in bad faith
Any system large enough is going to have waste and fraud. That doesn’t mean the system shouldn’t exist, and it certainly doesn’t mean that the system shouldn’t be handed over to the largest wasters and fraudsters on the planet.
Are you talking about the ones that are actually reporting the waste and fraud, lmao.
I do agree that there is a huge opportunity for waste and fraud in a large system, that’s why most have third party auditing.
Why hasn’t DOGE cut spending on Tesla subsidies? Extremely wasteful to be spending billions on tax breaks for a company making nothing of use to the American public thats ethos runs exactly opposite to the “drill drill drill” principal of this administration?
Yeah. Why cut funding and staff for the IRS, which has like a 30/1 ROI? Why cut support for NASA which has ~10/1 ROI?
Because DOGE is a misnomer. It’s purely a tool to implement project 2025 goals.
Our system
has/had accountability baked into it. Rather than rely on our separation of powers and independent inspectors general, you chuckle fucks, in your infinite lack of wisdom, decided to hand our government over to a Nazi billionaire with glaring conflicts of interest.Accountability? Puuuuuuhlease.
Nazi billionaire…you really drank the Kool aid didn’t you.
Would you rather we continue to tax and spend? You sound extremely liberal, so I’ll assume yes.
Are you trying to tell us that the guy that has billions of dollars and also did Nazi salutes on stage where we all saw it clearly… somehow is actually NOT a Nazi billionaire?
If he acts like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, salutes like a Nazi. He might just be a Nazi
And if he has billions of dollars he might just be a billionaire.
Oh look, someone else to block.
Nah, I’ll save the Kool aid for you cultists. I believe what my eyes tell me.
I don’t hate the republican party. But the current party isn’t the republican party. I disagreed with the republican party, which is different. The current iteration has people in charge who have literally no understanding or don’t actually care how the government works and what is needed. They aren’t reducing “waste”, they are just using that as an excuse to try and get rid of anything they don’t like or don’t agree with. The sooner you start to understand that the better. Because you don’t have enough understanding of what’s actually going on to have a legitimate discussion about it. It’s like someone who doesn’t understand algebra trying to have a discussion about calculus.
How old are you? 'Cause the Republican party has been outright fascists for decades now. You’d have to go really far back to find an iteration of the party which was in any way reasonable.
Early 30s. I’ve never agreed with the republican party, but it seemed to me that at one point they were at least trying to improve things, even if their ideas were stupid.
There is no one still alive today from the last time the republican party was trying to improve things.
You hate people who want to be genuinely free to the point that you support stripping freedoms from others.
I hate freedom-haters like you. If you don’t like it, get out.
I don’t hate anyone. You are free to be as angry as you like, no one cares.
Your ignorant speech and actions say otherwise. People do care, otherwise you wouldn’t be responding, limp jackass.
Aww. Do you need a safe space to reflect?
🤣 I rest my case.
I’ll take that as a yes.
Way to sound stupid in under two sentences
Are consumer protections government waste?
They “are” for those people who are too stupid to understand that individual consumers don’t have the time, expertise, access to inside information on company processes and their own labs so that they don’t need to rely on regulators to make sure they’re not buying and consuming dangerous shit, and can do it all by themselves as individuals.
The “too stupid to understand regulators are there to do what individuals don’t have the time, expertise and power to do as individuals” neatly brings us around exactly to the point the OP was making.
(Mind you, sadly it’s not just Trumpettes who fall into the “too stupid to understand the need of regulators” category)
OBG stands for Ol’ Boy Gobbler
Obviously Been Grifted.
Republicans are dumber than dogshit.
Hey! I like dogs
Look, i’m not american. Context please? Who believes that?
And where’s the accessible text?
You clearly have the context since you said you’re not American. But to spell it out the context is america electing these people. There’s news articles if you really care, none of us need to spend our time hand feeding you a summary.
Astronomical mental instability
well people follow organized religions blindly so…yes
I’m the deepest bottom. 😤
We’re all very impressed, and maybe a little terrified.
Just had a conversation with my mother, this afternoon, in which I tried to explain to her that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet were not working in the best interests of the country.
I can’t fathom how anyone could think someone is working for your best interests while simultaneously holding half our nation’s entire wealth just for themselves.
If the other player in Monopoly has all the money and properties and you have nothing, do you still say they are working for your best interests? Wake up, they won the game and you lost.
(Edit: That is directed at your mom and mine and all the others that won’t pay attention to reality)
If the other player in Monopoly has all the money and properties and you have nothing, do you still say they are working for your best interests?
We’re not playing Monopoly. We don’t all start with an equal chance at taking the board and we don’t get to restart the game after one person “wins”.
We live in a society heavily predicated on private patronage. And yes, people who work their entire lives to achieve the rank of Chief Crony (or even Assistant Deputy Minion to the Chief Crony) and enjoy a comfortable middle class lifestyle as a result, absolutely believe that the Lord In His Castle is working in your best interests by protecting you from the Vikings at the gate and the Angry Starving Peasants rioting in the fields.
Maybe you don’t believe your Lord is a divine agent serving the will of the heavens. But it’s your job to build giant statues and frescos of him with a big golden glowing crown. So of course you’re not going to suggest that work is meaningless (or outright predatory) in public.
Also doesn’t hurt that the Town Crier has been saying “All Hail Lord Buffet! Kindest and Gentlest of Royal Souls! He is far better than the disreputable Lord Musk or Lord Koch who live in the evil castle on the other side of the river” since the day the Berkshire Hathaway Committee to Promote Public Information hired him. Are you going to disagree with the Town Crier? What? Are you allied with the Lords on the Other Side of the River? Fuck you, then.
It is truly baffling to me how desperate some people are to believe this. What in human history has shown any indication that what is happening now is for any benefit other than the billionaires?
I’m not even American, but I see constant posts about how “if you hate two men you’re part of the problem” and “he’s not coming after your money” or something.
Also not American and I have acquaintances that believe that these billionaires are good and working for the good of the People. I can’t for the life of me understand how they reached this conclusion and all they say to justify is that all negative things said about them is “woke” nonsense…
It was recently reported that something like 30/40% of the U.K. likes Trump and Musk, but even with that low number, I see loads of people say how amazing they think they are on social media.
I thought Trump was Putin’s bottom.
