• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    You know, opening with how Bloomberg has $100,000,000,000 dollars makes the $13,300,000 donation not seem quite so impressive. Both are more money than I’ll see in my lifetime, but if we’re taking relative values, that’s like one of us making a $13.30 donation to a campaign.

    We really, really shouldn’t have billionaires. It’s just such a stupid amount of money.

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    22 hours ago

    This is why authoritarians want to make politics a dirty business to keep everyday people from participating in it.

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    “They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,” he said in an interview with MSNBC last week.

    There’s no logic to hatred. I hope he’s simply enjoying the win. Congrats, dude!

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    Bloomberg donated the most, but spent very little. He’s reportedly worth $100+ billion. He spent 13 million.

    That’s like saying be spent 13 cents when his net worth was $1 million.
    That’s like 1 drop in 3 buckets.
    It’s loose change you find on the floorboard of your car.

    Billionaires should not exist.

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      There’s more than one way to get rid of billionaires. Taxing them is the best remedy they could hope for.

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      So uhhh, unless I’m doing my conversions wrong, it’s more like a $133 donation while being worth a million.

      And yet, it’s still a mere 0.0133% of his worth. Not 1.33%, 0.0133% if it.

      Jesus H. Whatthefuckin Christ