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US Billionaire Wealth Surges to $8.1 Trillion as Affordability Crisis Hammers Working Class
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Fortunately, history has never been short on examples of how to deal with rich assholes who seek to grind the people under their heel.
All it takes is commitment, passion, basic carpentry knowledge, and a rope.
That is ridiculous.
You also need a blacksmith.
In 21st century America, our solutions are handled with gunpowder and lead.
To build a gallows?
Gallows are too slow. The guillotine was introduced precisely because you couldn't effectively and cleanly eliminate problems fast enough.
But I can admit I misread it and thought we were talking guillotines and not gallows at first.
I'll back off in the interest of not seeing the revolution get bogged down in infighting over WHICH tool we use to execute the capitalists.
I prefer the above mentioned solution, which requires some level of smithing skills, primarily because of the increased throughput bandwidth.
now we just need a way to track specific billionaires
How about we carve a Swastika into the foreheads of every MAGA?
I want my scalps!!!