New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/06/tax-the-rich-racial-slurs-new-york-real-estate

The phrase “tax the rich” can be “just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs”, according to the New York City billionaire Steve Roth, who said that the top 1% should be “praised and thanked”.

Speaking on his company’s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, Roth, the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, expressed his support for fellow billionaire and the CEO of Citadel, Ken Griffin, who was singled out in the 15 April announcement by New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of the state’s first “pied-à-terre” tax on second homes valued at more than $5m. In a video, Mamdani announced the policy in front of Griffin’s penthouse, which he said was purchased for $238m.

“We are all shocked that our young mayor would pull this stunt in front of Ken’s home and single him out for ridicule,” Roth said. “This was both irresponsible and dangerous.”

Edit: Mamdani's video that sparked this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKZnVB4F9k

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shweddy@lemmy.world · 250 pts · 89d (11 replies)

Bitch, taxing the rich is the humane option

WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 76 pts · 89d (4 replies)

I get the feeling we’re getting closer to starting to spit roast them.

SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 89d (2 replies)
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WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 89d (1 reply)

I actually meant it in the literal sense, but these days I’m sure there’s a few people who would. 🤮

SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 89d
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 88d

my dude it's been like 500, 600 years. there are better ways to get things doner

toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 89d

I'd be willing to accept the... Alternative

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 11 pts · 89d (2 replies)

Yeah, heading towards just taking it all, and leaving them destitute, and if they don't like it, they can think about it in prison, if they're lucky to survive that long.

They enjoy their wealth at the pleasure of the Citizens, and those who don't handle their wealth responsibly, will have it removed.

Cethin@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 88d (1 reply)

Leaving them destitute is much more polite than the alternative too. That basically requires them to comply, which I assume they won't. If it comes down to other actions being taken, because the systems aren't doing their job, it'll require some level of violence.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 88d

How easy or violent it has to be is entirely up to them. If they want violence, we can oblige them, but they'll still lose their money, and their family may not survive it.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 89d

Because of…..the implication.

MissJinx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 88d

In france this would not work out

shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 140 pts · 89d (3 replies)

Guillotine the rich

Luci@lemmy.ca · 56 pts · 89d (1 reply)

I’d vote for you

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 40 pts · 89d

Shittydwarf for comptroller!

bcgm3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 88d

Ooh, he's definitely not gonna like that one.

volore@scribe.disroot.org · 119 pts · 89d (1 reply)

I feel like Mr. Roth has forgotten that being taxed is the alternative we came up with to beheadings for the upper class when they got too rich and powerful.

SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 89d

Yeah.. tax the rich is the nicest thing we could be saying.. they’ve definitely forgotten…

TachyonTele@piefed.social · 92 pts · 89d

Waaah wahh

These people are lucky. No ones eaten them yet.

crusa187@lemmy.ml · 80 pts · 89d (2 replies)

Perhaps he would prefer “Eradicate the rich.”

(Through even more taxation, of course.)

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Or guillitines. Or Luigi. Look, I'm not really picky on how we make the streets flow with a river of their blood. Dealers choice really.

oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 89d

Yesss

I just said this in another thread but I'll repair it here.

Once no one is rich, everyone will be.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 78 pts · 89d

"He will learn over time that growing a tax base is a winner and raising taxes is a loser … and that the hard-working 1% are allies, not enemies.”

Translation: "we're still working on finding ways to make him do our bidding"

skisnow@lemmy.ca · 60 pts · 88d

Just to highlight that as a real estate magnate, his entire empire is built on rent-seeking, i.e. accumulating wealth by the hoarding of a limited resource, without having created anything of value.

This billionaire did not create a billion dollars of value for society, even indirectly; he only took it from others.

EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 89d

“I’m afraid of the poors!”

Boys, we have them right where we want them.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 44 pts · 89d

we’re gonna eat you, you rich motherfuckers

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 89d (9 replies)

He views the Rich as a separate ethnic group.

from wiki:

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of humans who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Attributes that ethnicities believe to share include language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.

He's mostly right, but that doesn't invalidate criticisms of the Rich.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 89d (2 replies)

Finally, a morally and ethically acceptable group to do ethnic cleansing on!

TachyonTele@piefed.social · 11 pts · 89d

I was against genocide....

jonesey71@lemmus.org · 8 pts · 89d

Arguably it is immoral to NOT cleanse them.

StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 89d (3 replies)

That’s like admitting they live in a completely different world. That’s what blows my mind. By implication, he’s admitting the wealthy exist in a completely separate reality. That the shadow economy is real, and that the average person is effectively a second-class citizen. It’s an acknowledgment that it is, and maybe always has been, us versus them. I've always said they exist in a completely different world, one that operates on different rules than the rest of us. More than just the obvious. Everything you posted, culture, norms, ancestry, history. They will never change to help you. They will always operate from a place of exploitation. It's their culture. They made it so.

SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 89d (2 replies)

For all intents and purposes, they have become Battlefield Earth aliens or Morlocks.

StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 89d (1 reply)

The old vampire metaphor still works too.

edible_funk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 88d

Dragons.

JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 89d

I think it's more that he views anyone not rich as not human. Only him and his rich friends are actually people and the plebeian masses should defer to them as such.

liuther9@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 88d

I've met some people with this mindset of "i dont give a single fuk if it is not good for me". They also tend to praise billionares and bad dictators. Makes me really curios how their brain works

deadymouse@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 88d
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NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 39 pts · 89d (6 replies)

"TAX" is going to be the softest, most palateable verb that will be done to them, the alternatives are a little less polite.

proofchampionship184@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 89d (5 replies)

“Oh, would you prefer ‘torture and execute’ then?” Lmao

NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 88d

My favourite phrase, or at least one that's given me a glimmer of hope for the future is "They will have to invent a new word for what the people are going to do to those responsible."

jestho@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 88d (3 replies)

Torture And eXecute

BaraCoded@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 88d (2 replies)

... "Torcute"?

jestho@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 88d (1 reply)

Needs an x to sound scary

BaraCoded@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 86d

"Execure"?

_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 89d

"We want you to pay your fair share of taxes to maintain the system you enjoy the benefits and protection of." = slur?

Eat all of my shit and hair, Steve Roth. You sound like a real turd of a human being.

nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 89d

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.

dustyData@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 89d

From the crowd that came up with gems as "bank accounts are citizenship", "transactions are free speech" and "attorney fees are justice". Comes the latest madness "tax is a hate crime".

yesman@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 89d

Tax that peckerwood until he starts singing spirituals.

Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 89d

"Tax the rich" is putting it very nicely.

They've dehumanized themselves with their monstrous exploitation.

Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Bring back the tax brackets from the 1960's. That should solve the problems. Fucking Ronnie Reagan and his deregulation.

oldwoodenship@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 88d

Citizens United also has to go.

Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 32 pts · 89d (2 replies)

What a little pathetic bitch. Eat the rich

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Just got a weird Clayton Bigsby feel from your comment, only instead of him saying 'white power' quietly at the end of his shouting, I thought of someone ranting about the harm rich people do continually ending their bellowing with a short, fast, calm, "Eat the rich" as a contrast at the end of any sentence. For example:

"BILLIONAIRES COULD BUILD A DOZEN STRAY ANIMAL SHELTERS FOR THE COST OF ONE OF THEIR YACHTS, BUT THEY'RE TOO SELFISH! THE ONLY ANIMAL THEY CARE ABOUT ... IS THEMSELVES! Eat the rich".

"NINE DOLLARS FOR A CUP OF COFFEE?! NINE DOLLARS COULD PAY FOR A STUDENT'S BREAKFAST AND LUNCH! Eat the rich".

"OW! I STUBBED MY GODDAMN TOE! Eat the rich".

captcha@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 2 pts · 88d

The examples give a vibe of radio advertising, with a sped up text in the end telling you ‘we are not responsible for anything, terms and limitations will may apply, consult your therapist, your lawyer, your neighbour, and your dog’

Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 88d

"Tax the rich" is the 99% being nice. We could go the France in 1792 route.

blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 89d (7 replies)

There's only 700 billionaires in America, and I think we should kill every single one.

Infinite@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 89d

Probably the married ones too.

bridgeburner@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 89d (3 replies)

I think we can make an exception for Gaben

TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Eh...acceptable collateral

Oggyb@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 88d

Someone could tip him off ahead of time so he can donate to charitable causes down to 900 million.

korazail@lemmy.myserv.one · 1 pts · 88d

I hear what you're saying, but counterpoint:

I'd prefer Steam's helpdesk staff were paid more, and their janitors, and their contractors, and anyone else involved in making that business work. Gabe doesn't NEED a new yacht. Some of the people working for him do NEED healthcare.

Gabe is definitely on the not-a-monster side of the billionaire spectrum, but you don't get that much money with purely your output. You get lucky and have a good idea at the right time, inherit, or rent-seek. Two of those are stupid reasons to have immense wealth, and I don't think getting lucky is worth the vast gulf between billionaire and struggling-to-get-by.

I think if we could have a wealth cap... say 10 billion right now, an absurd sum, where it's almost impossible to even spend it all... and after you pass that amount you get fed to a wood chipper; then we would see a lot fewer billionaires and a better world.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 89d

It's been entirely too long since there's been a tarring and feathering in these parts.

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 88d

ceenote@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 89d

A wealth tax a day keeps the guillotine away.

Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 89d

You're the best! Thank you so much for exploiting thousands of employees and customers to acquire a stupendous fortune!

He doesn't realize that this perspective proves exactly what he thinks of his employees and customers... to him they are nothing more than a despised, but necessary, resource to exploit ruthlessly.

Also, let's remember that his tax rate is much lower than that of an Arby's employee. Hateful and disgusting indeed

CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 88d (1 reply)

Man with more money than he could possibly use in his life is upset at the suggestion that some portion of the money he will never used could be used to help other people.

Being a billionaire is a sign of mental illness and needs to start being treated as such.

WiredBrain@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 88d

Financial obesity

9point6@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Tax is the compromise

The French have a good historical case for what should happen if that fails

veroxii@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 89d

Something something cake

Clutter@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 88d

Mamdani is choosing the lesser evil here my dear rich person... The other options is: we kill you.

grte@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 89d (1 reply)

It's true. I am bigoted against the wealthy. Proudly.

TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 89d

We need actual slurs for rich people- that would be fun

boogiebored@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 89d

sure fine whatever

here’s another

kill em all

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 89d (5 replies)

Rich is not a race. It’s not a characteristic that you’re born with.

NABDad@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 89d (3 replies)

The worst often are born with it.

nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 89d (2 replies)

But it's a mutable attribute

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 89d (1 reply)

I can see if we make this argument, they will then say the same thing about being poor. And then take it further to say the poor should not be a protected class and therefore should not receive extra benefits. (I know this is not what protected class typically refers to, but I can see them making these arguments.)

4am@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 89d

No need to hypothesize, they’ve been doing this since the New Deal

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 89d

That's not a good argument, most of them ARE born into it.

peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 88d (1 reply)

off with his head

SirHery@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 88d

Eat himmmmm.

Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 89d (2 replies)

I don’t understand why media prints stuff like this as if it’s a valid point that needs to be explored

HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 89d

It's because parasites like this jackass are paying them to.

silverneedle@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 89d

Most media is spearheaded by people who own everything, ergo antilogical and demented shit like this.

JPSound@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Is "guillotine" a softer word? We could and should just use that instead. I'm all about catering to the elites' baby soft thin skin.

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 88d

MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Quite unlikely that any of his ancestors worked the cotton fields. He probably thinks he's a self made man.

boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 89d

Of course he's self-made. His ancestors didn't even have those lucrative cotton field jobs. Probably had to survive off their capital and nothing else.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 89d (1 reply)

It he prefers "eat the rich", I won't object.

nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 89d

Don’t eat shit.

Mulch the rich.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 89d

JFC, how out of touch can you be from reality?

WhyDoYouThinkThat@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 88d

lynch him

Mantzy81@aussie.zone · 16 pts · 89d
  1. Overwhelmingly rich isn't a race
  2. There are ways to solve being rich
  3. There are other options if you don't like those but bring a pillow for your head to land on.
fodor@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 88d
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witheyeandclaw@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Won't someone think of poor Ken Griffin??

Sineljora@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 89d

Kenneth Cordelle Griffin is the new leader of the Epstein class, and he lied under oath to Congress. May he find out.

mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 88d

Longylonglong@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 89d

Maybe he should just go fuck himself

newtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.org · 13 pts · 89d

This sack of shit is a caricature, it's vomit inducing just to look at him

DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 88d

Oh rich please.

Etterra@discuss.online · 13 pts · 89d

How about "eat the rich" then, motherfucker? With BBQ sauce.

Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 89d (3 replies)

Tax or eat, Steve, tax or eat!

Leather@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 89d (2 replies)

Let's not get in a binary head space - there are tons of options in-between!

k0e3@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Yeah. Some of us don't mind taxing and eating the rich.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 88d

oh yeah? well some of us don't mind taxing, cooking, and eating, the rich and then turning their skin into a bunch of canoes

homes@piefed.world · 13 pts · 89d

yeah. he's right. what's the problem with that?

I'm also bigoted against Nazis, which I suspect he might also have a problem with...

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 89d (2 replies)

ok.

if "tax the rich" isn't enough, maybe this will send a stronger message.

1000003720

is this loud enough you old rich fuck?

or maybe this is more your speed?

1000003721

backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 89d

jonesey71@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 89d

Just take about 10-15% right off the top of the billionaires.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 12 pts · 88d (1 reply)

Add him to The List.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 88d

We really should make a list. Not like in list format, something more durable like baking it into some type of meme.

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 89d

He looks like he enjoys a racial slur every now and then.

flandish@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 88d (2 replies)

how much proof do we need that the rich are a different species?

man_wtfhappenedtoyou@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 88d (1 reply)

They aren't, they are just sick. As with any sick animal, they should be put down.

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 88d

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 11 pts · 89d

Let's make this Sociopathic Oligarch understand that his...sort...are the only group left for which BULLYING is totally allowed, and strongly encouraged.

Fuck these loser snowflakes, all the money in the world, and they're whining because we aren't nice enough to them, poor people get all the breaks, it's just not fair.

Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 89d

Well that's interesting because I liken billionaire real estate tycoons to war criminals that deserve to be brutally executed. What a coincidence.

Janx@piefed.social · 10 pts · 89d

This is like misogynistic incels complaining about "equality" being a slur against them.

aburrito@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 89d

Good, it’s getting under his skin cause he feels threatened by it. His ilk will be kicking and screaming about it till the grave, and that makes me feel some petty joy

Phantaloons@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 89d

Throw the rich off a cliff and liquidate their assets and net worth. was a bit too harsh, but whatever we have to do.

WandowsVista@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 88d

makes sense, rich people are the only truly protected class

Oofnik@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 89d

“I must say that I consider the phrase ‘tax the rich’ – quote tax the rich – spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs, and even the phrase from the ‘river to the sea’,” he said, referring to the controversial pro-Palestinian slogan.

A LOT to unpack here.

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 89d

Dude is lucky we said tax the rich. That's the socially agreed option. If they stop respecting the plebs, well...

BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 89d

motherfucker is a literal Skeksis

Man_kind@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 88d

This is why the rich need to be taxed.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 88d

Ebenezer Scrooge, is that you?

Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Lol chop chop, guoillo-bait

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 89d

losing only 8% sounds fair

HubertManne@piefed.social · 7 pts · 89d

every day someone doesn't suck my trump its racism.

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 89d

And much like racists using racial slurs to express how much they hate, we use “tax the rich” while hating you

RunawayFixer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 88d


Source: https://www.moralambition.org/stories/tax-fairness-explainer

Also, the above graph compares averages vs averages. The average of the top bracket is made up of some very rich people who accept that paying taxes is a fair thing to do, and some who try to contribute as little as possible by evading as much as possible. Because he'd prefer us to not talk about this, I have the suspicion that Mr Steve Roth falls into the 2nd category.

jagermo@feddit.org · 6 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Billionaires are people, too. We are leaders in technology, in industry, in finance. Look at history. Do you know who else vilified a tiny minority of financiers and progressive thinkers called the Jews?

Gavin Belson

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turdburglar@piefed.social · 5 pts · 89d

yeet the rich.

dan1101@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 89d

The ultra-rich can be very ignorant.

Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 89d

eat the rich

DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 89d

Gee, would've been a shame if that rich snob is taxed and his money is redistributed to the poor and pious.

GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 89d
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BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 89d

To quote Tony Soprano: OH, POOR YOU!

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 88d

I didn't know the rich were a race though at this point they've probably have been having their genes modified.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 89d

He's really not going like "Eat The Rich."

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 89d

wealth is not a racial sect.

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 88d

Okay, here's the politically correct version then:

Take a portion of the income and wealth of people of wealth they don't plan on investing in a short period of time (not paid out as wages, etc.).

silverneedle@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 89d

One day the masses will take everything from Steve Roth or his heirs. That is a fact of life and nothing can stop it. You can be sure that it doesn't stop at a little wealth tax.

Bluedragon012@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 88d

If that's true, then we are using it right. I'd only use a slur on beings that are less than human and ultra rich fit that pereftly. And as well read as the rich are, they know what happens when a being is considered less than human. >:D

CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 88d (2 replies)

Well he's not wrong, it's definitely hateful. We don't say it because we think it's fair they get billions and we have to scrape by while doing the actual work.

Photonic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 88d

That doesn’t make it hateful in the sense that it has been used recently. It’s just a normal response to someone’s horrible behaviour.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 88d

Are both of the following hateful?

  • Tax the rich - at 1%

  • Tax the rich - at 99%

sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 89d

Eat the rich. This country is infested with wealthy parasites.

CptHacke@piefed.social · 3 pts · 89d

Vampires suck.

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 89d

There's nothing wrong with 'Tax the Rich'. It's no better or worse than the usual phrases 'Eat the Rich', or 'Suffocate the Rich by Stretching Their Scrotum Up Over Their Head'.

DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 89d

Ken Griffin should be taxed

FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 89d

Well,

He's a cunt then

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 89d

He’s really not going to like what comes after “tax the rich,” then.

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 3 pts · 89d

Alright. Normalize both then. And remember that "tax" is a euphemism.

Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 89d

irresponsible and dangerous

For whom? The mayor? Isn't that a threat?

libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 88d

I dont think it is a slur. To be rich is even to this day associated with good qualities.

in other words, the word rich doesnt reflect reality and we have to weed it out

I think grabber is more suitable, because they grab property away from the commons.

Release the grip!

webkitten@piefed.social · 2 pts · 89d
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BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 88d
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homes@piefed.world · 2 pts · 38d

CRY! CRY! CRY!

SPREAD IT! SPREAD IT FAR AND WIDE!

Phantaloons@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 89d
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Sirdubdee@piefed.social · 1 pts · 88d

People that say that aren’t even rich.