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In reply to the discussion: AOC FTW [View all]jaxexpat
(6,851 posts)75. So, is the organizational business model of banks ordained by god?
I didn't realize.
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Now if we can just get the entire working class to unite and fight we might win.
cayugafalls
Aug 2020
#4
Great quote from Lincoln. It's been my signature line here on DU fro a while. Don't remember...
EarnestPutz
Aug 2020
#41
If this were true we'd still be waiting for someone to develop fire and the wheel.
rwsanders
Aug 2020
#65
I think there can be leadership without a group of "leaders" who do no work and contribute nothing.
rwsanders
Aug 2020
#110
The problem there is that once you reach a certain point, the organization then becomes a monster
rwsanders
Aug 2020
#145
Sorry, been there done that. Haven't seen any benefit of size other than to concentrate wealth
rwsanders
Aug 2020
#156
All of the above. Look to history. FDR had it right. Second Bill of Rights, 90% marginal tax rate
rwsanders
Aug 2020
#21
Not an area of history I'm familiar with, but I doubt that the booming economy was
rwsanders
Aug 2020
#64
I don't think it is just a slogan, and maybe billionaires aren't the entire problem, maybe
rwsanders
Aug 2020
#136
But she didn't call for anything to be done to billionaires, just pointed out an indisputable fact
manhattan123
Aug 2020
#32
I'm having a hard time deciding which is the key word - "irrational" or "insult".
George II
Aug 2020
#81
Back when I lived in Manhattan I used to walk past this hotel a couple of times a week:
George II
Aug 2020
#88
I don't know what she said in January, I don't fixate on her as some around here seem to.
manhattan123
Aug 2020
#33
And the answer is that she doesn't believe billionaires exist. Don't know what she intends to do....
George II
Aug 2020
#34
Typo - she doesn't believe billionaires SHOULD exist (as I said in the previous post)....
George II
Aug 2020
#38
We don't know. But we do know she's voted against the Democratic majority....
George II
Aug 2020
#99
plutophobia is a another RW talking point on edit (as the post was hidden) the poster I am
Celerity
Aug 2020
#57
How is it a right-wing talking point? Too many syllables for the modern American right-winger.
betsuni
Aug 2020
#66
Defence of a plutocracy is a priori RW, and also, by its very nature, anti-democracy.
Celerity
Aug 2020
#67
Yes it was, most definitely so, for the reasons I already laid out, including my reply in regards
Celerity
Aug 2020
#69
The point of America is that it's a Disney Land capitalist casino. You can visit wearing
betsuni
Aug 2020
#70
you are projecting far more into this than what the post I replied to said, and also what I said
Celerity
Aug 2020
#71
you do not need billionaires to have effective capital formation, that is a RW talking point
Celerity
Aug 2020
#56
"AOC haters"? That's rather divisive, isn't it? We can't discuss what politicians...
George II
Aug 2020
#83
Oh, suddenly holding feet to the fire and constructive criticism is bad and "hating."
betsuni
Aug 2020
#89
The world would be far better off without Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Tesla, SpaceX
fescuerescue
Aug 2020
#87