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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

Founding Father John Jay famously believed "those who own the country ought to govern it." That perspective has never actually gone out of style at the top of society.

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Analytical Left

How about: votes based on the *percentage* of your *wealth* you pay in taxes? You want more votes, PAY MORE OF YOUR WEALTH IN TAXES? Funny how these greedy fucks want to compare absolute tax numbers instead of relative...

Royal 👑

"Hey, how about a system where the owners of capital can determine whether their employees can vote"

bcwbcw

The billionaires forget how much sales and employment taxes are, or that, even when someone rents, their housing costs are going to property taxes. The US tax system is not really progressive any more.

zenosAnalytic

the silly thing is none of these jerks actl pay their taxes.

Bargain bin catgirl

The consequences of that reasoning is that stealing from the rich is a good way to have more political rights.

Nick Garcia

Reverse it: everyone below the poverty line gets two votes we are failing them. One vote for everyone with less than $1M in net worth. No votes for the wealthy since they already have an outsized impact on politics through donation. I call it "preferential option for the poor." Just invented that.

IntrepidGirlSleuth

What a stupid piece of shit this guy is

John Elliott

top of society?

Katy Walker 🏳️‍⚧️

Maybe make votes inversely proportional to wealth. As those who have massive wealth have other political influence. Not serious, but something needs to happen to remove excessive meddling due to money

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

On the other hand, John Jay also wanted the first New York State constitution to end slavery and provide "for the support and encouragement of literature," so I guess you take the bad with the good and vice versa

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Pelon G Forest

That's kinda funny in a way, seeing as most degenerate billionaires avoid taxes like the plague

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

John Jay wrote about his disappointment that New York's first constitution did not abolish slavery in a letter to fellow Founding Father Gouverneur Morris, who later died after sticking a whale bone up his dick. This is why I say there's a conspiracy to make history seem boring.

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

While the specifics here are lost to history, what Gouverneur Morris stuck up his dick in an unsuccessful attempt to clear a blockage was almost certainly not an actual whale bone, but rather a whale baleen — the keratin quasi-teeth that whales use to strain plankton.

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

Imagine going to whale heaven and meeting the whale who was hunted to death by humans & had its baleen stolen. Imagine telling the whale Gouverneur Morris died after sticking its baleen up his dick. Imagine the whale singing a light-hearted whale song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabT...

Whale SongYouTube video by Oceania Projectwww.youtube.com
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

Anyway, I drank two cups of coffee earlier today but I don't think you can tell.

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Skip hop jump Blue Dolphin🍀💮🐬🐚🐸🐾

Morris died on November 6, 1816, after he had caused himself internal injuries and an infection while using a piece of whale baleen as a catheter in an attempt to clear a blockage in his urinary tract. 🐳Ouch

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zenosAnalytic

Beautiful u-u Inspiring u-u u-u We never know out impact in this life, truly u-u u-u u-u

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Darrel "ai verata nikto" Plant

I missed DEADWOOD when it was first on, but years later randomly ran across the episode where Al Swearengen has a metal rod shoved up there and because I’ve been there, I was hooked. www.cbr.com/deadwood-con...

Deadwood’s Most Controversial Storyline Turned Al Swearengen Into an HBO LegendDeadwood's Al Swearengen is a complex character, and one storyline turned him into something more iconic.www.cbr.com
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TylerOnTheInternet

Ah, the primordial version of the Ro Khanna Cycle.

lesterryan

Let’s do it by percentage of income and wealth. Then none of the wealthy would have a vote.

Auld Black Jack

it's always a shell game, of some description, with these people... - why limit this to *income taxes*? - why the nominal amount of taxes paid and not *taxes as a pecentage of gross income*?

Smart Cat Plays Shell Game with CupsALT: Smart Cat Plays Shell Game with Cupsstatic.klipy.com
Robin The Reanimator (he/him)

The wealthy are re-inventing Feudal Privileges from first principles.

Darwin Woodka

shopify is shit

Cameron

Maybe we could divide the commoners up into their own estate separate from aristocrats to preserve the voting power of the wealthy? Has that been tried?

Ranylt Richildis

I literally feel sick.

Joe Auerbach

I also think Elon Musk shouldn't get to vote.