Comments by "N Marbletoe" (@nmarbletoe8210) on "Billionaires Freak Out About Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders: A Closer Look" video.

@Jib Jabs I've hardly heard of celebs endorsing anyone. Seems strange. I did see New Power Generation (who played with Prince) endorse Bernie! National Nurses United too! Maybe Samuel L Jackson can get behind those nurses and feel the bern.
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swimming is really good for you (esp if you can avoid chlorine)
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@Jib Jabs I agree, Gates is not out of touch, he's just awkward. The guy funds malaria vaccines, microlending, clean water... his working life is dedicated to helping poor people. There are plenty of b'aires to mock, why not pick a mean one, instead of one of the kindest men in America?
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as the saying goes, "No good deed goes unpunished."
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@pforgottonsoul Gates is in that mental space too it seems. He's not worried about making money anymore, he's giving it away. When you're giving away significant money, you "do a little math" as Gates said. I think Yang might even agree with that thought lol
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@pforgottonsoul state of mind. A lot of rich people worry all the time about their money, and it's how they got rich. On the other hand the happiest people I've known could pile about $12 together on a big day. Now Imagine you had 80b to give away. Would you give 60b to the government and 20b to other charities? Or maybe reverse it, 20/60? Can you pick better causes than represented by the current budget? If you give 60b to Uncle, you know about 20b is going to missiles...
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Zuck is a pretty accurate Data, except that Data is likeable. AOC is an excellent Romulan. They love censorship and have good hearts. Pelosi would really kill as the next Emperor Palpatine. Trump is a ringer for Jabba. Scene: the Galaxy Slowly, wreckage of a space battle drifts across the screen... jagged pieces of the star destroyer CNN... chunks of the Imperial Death Fox...
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Gates doesn't brag, he's donated most of his money. He said he'd be happy to pay twice the taxes. He said if he had to pay like 70% of his money in taxes, maybe not.
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yup
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A leaches' worst fear is that the host dies. The host is us.
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He's allergic to censorship, and he just realized that AOC is asking Facebook to be an official government censor.
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I don't get why seth is bullying nerds, did he skip a grade in junior high?
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@unitedstates4912 I guess we always need someone to pick on, smh. I don't think it's laziness motivating progressives though. People look around the world and see things they like better, like universal coverage of Europe, the green policies of New Zealand, or the censorship of China. I don't get the censorship thing in my fellow liberals, I think they've lost their mind.
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AOC is promoting political censorship, it's terrible.
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@felixphilippe7224 I like her but she's been duped. Getting facebook to censor political ads will only hurt non-establishment candidates.
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At least Bloomberg News doesn't lie like Seth Meyers. Zuck did NOT say they wouldn't fact check political ads. I watched the whole fricken interview with AOC in Congress. He said they MIGHT! AOC gave an example, he said "I'd have to check on that." Zuck also said that something like a fake election date could be taken down. But that doesn't seem to fit Seth's anti-nerd, pro-censorship agenda here? Funny is funny but lying is ugly.
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@khadijahmuhammad4771 But Seth said that facebook "Announced it WON'T Censor Ads." So Seth is blowing thick smoke up our collective asses. In fact, a candidate in Florida ran an ad that was fake on purpose, to see if it got taken down. Guess what facebook did?
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@megahappy2bemeIntheStarz Except that's false. Zuck said they might ban an ad, he'd have to check on AOC's vivid example. Check the footage, not the joke. In fact, a democratic candidate in Florida ran that EXACT AD! On Facebook, saying the GOP supports the Green New Deal, very well made too. Guess what happened next. Did Facebook fact check it?
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billionaires aren't the 1%, they're the 0.000000001% the 1% can buy a summer cabin the 1/10th of 1% can buy a summer cabin every year the 1/10,000 th of 1% can buy a government and bulldoze all the cabins
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eat me
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@tylerhackner9731 We can eat the rich, OR do all those other things. Class war is a ticket to lose. Bernie's above that, really, and he's also not above joking about it. We should eat WITH the rich. If we eat the rich, that's a rich diet, and then we have to eat ourselves. That's what history teaches.
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@Henrik_Holst Is that 6bn per year, or is it a one time confiscation?
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@CokeZIlli It would only rase 25 to 200b a year, which is 1% to 10% of the cost of M4A. It would be unconstitutional, and the big shots would get their money safe anyway. It would affect a lot more than 500 people. It hits everyone with 50m or more in total assets. It's the best way to kill M4A that I've heard yet. It's a sound bite that bites back.
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@nfzeta128 When has it been tried in the US? That would be an interesting case study.
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@nfzeta128 There wasn't a wealth tax back then, I actually lived most of those years. We've never had one that I know of. There were a lot higher income taxes, but that's different. "In part because a wealth tax has never been implemented in the United States, there is no legal consensus about its constitutionality." -wikipedia
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@abram730 I agree about property tax. Regressive, and indeed it can be considered a "wealth tax" of sorts because it taxes assets, not income. However, ONLY states and localities can do property tax, because the constitution prohibits that kind of thing for the federal government. I do have to walk it back a bit, because the prohibitions apply only to the federal govt. If the states wanted to try a Warren style tax, they could. It'd be a disaster imo but it could be legal.
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@nfzeta128 If there's ever been a federal wealth tax in the US, please tell me what decade we're talking about, and maybe the name of the act, bill, or program. I just don't see it anywhere. To be clear, I am totally in favor of M4A. It will save trillions of dollars and improve hundreds of millions of lives. Just not this way of paying for a small part of it.
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@Henrik_Holst That's income tax, not asset tax.
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@Henrik_Holst oh ok :) Bottom line, M4A has a better chance if we avoid small dollar/ big fuss funding ideas. M4A will be a game changer. Imagine the mobilization of human power that comes from the entire nation don't gotta worry no more. ps i guess i just gotta get the last word lol but thanks for working for this stuff!
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i'm not so sure he's the dumbest; consider Harding 29, who was credited for "building a bridge between Wilsonian idealism and the business prosperity of the Coolidge and Hoover years"
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@elbarjones4812 I agree Jamie Dimon is neck deep in the Gread Recession, wasn't his bank one of the leaders of the derivatives drive, which turned a bubble into a natural gas explosion? Gates is being unfairly treated here by Seth. He's one of the best b'aires. Seth flat out lies about what Zuck said. In fact, Facebook will fact check political ads, and Zuck never said they wouldn't. But Seth pretends, because Gates has a pitchforkable face I guess. Seth should watch out he looks like a nerd too, 'yeah that one in the spotlight, he don't look right, get him up against the wall!'
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It's not "taxes," it's confiscation. Here's how it works: everyone in the nation hires an assessor, who inspects all your valuables and texts the number to the IRS. Everyone over a certain amount gets a friendly trim from a barber who gives house calls. Gates is giving pretty much ALL his money to charity. Ask him about taxes, I bet he says what Buffet says, "The rich should pay more!!"
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@veganperson "somewhat shallow as someone wrote on here, but she actually cared more than most" sounds like it could apply to Bill Gates as well as Marie.
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