I propose we call it the Luigi Movement, after Luigi Mario the less famous brother of Mario Mario.

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    Gee, if only we’d tried that before.

    Remember the “1%” protests against the billionaire class?

    It didn’t matter, because every time people contribute to a 401k or go shopping at a chain box store, they add power to the 1%. People say they want to fight the ultra-rich, but they don’t really want to fight. Nobody wants to sacrifice their comfort or security. We know from history how this ends…

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    The percentage of sociopaths involved with defining a society should never be greater than zero.

    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.

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    “Needs,” hells yeah.

    “Will have,” you know better. American workers love the taste of billionaire boot.

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    The biggest hurdle to starting any sort of revolution or meaningful societal change in the US is finding leadership willing to risk having a target on their backs to rally the masses to action. Anyone willing to be the first to step up will be harassed, pursued, abused, and potentially killed.

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      There are plenty of leaders to follow, plenty of groups to join, plenty of events to attend.

      This type of information isn’t broadcast on the local news. You have to go looking for like-minded people.

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    Something with a sharp downward movement. On an unrelated note. I like French furniture.

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    I think a movement is putting it lightly.

    It’s probably worse than most people see on the surface and in pop culture.

    I wonder how many people are killed to protect the game they play. Sure we have the wars… But I mean like quiet murders and accidental deaths. Or people trying to start a movement and then getting manipulated and put in jail or psych…or made to be homeless.

    I think Americans are way to privileged and naive to understand the raw reality. We are groomed to NOT understand. We are submissive to a culture created by our masters and don’t question it. We know it’s real now… So i don’t understand how people think they can change it by using the systems specifically made to create the problem.

    The game players, regardless of nation, utilize the nations as tools. The nations are like a service. The nations people are the product, bought sold and traded for the benefit of the game playing elite. It’s like cattle. We are the cattle and work horse, that nation is the farm owner, and the elite own the farmer.

    It’s not what we were told. It’s not going to be fixed using the methods we were taught can fix it. I mean look where we are today… This is what following their lead got us to. The foundation is too rotted to rebuild on.

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    I wish it hadn’t come to that … it ought to be more straightforward to roll back the clock, as MAGAts want to do. Roll back all those tax cuts for the wealthy. Roll back Supreme Court decisions letting them avoid taxes. Roll back letting corporate money dominate politics. Roll back union busting.

    Income taxes used to be very progressive, in that wealthy people paid a much higher percentage. However now that ladder stops, the percentage stops rising, and ever more wealth and money accumulation can be defined as “not income”, so the wealthy pay the least in taxes (by percentage).

    Rolling back these changes should help narrow the huge gap of income inequality, reduce corporate ownership of our government, and give ordinary people more of a voice

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    Send them to fight in Iran. They can stay for as long as it takes for them to pay back their fair share in taxes. Assessed by federal minimum wage, of course.