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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours ago

An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax

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An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax

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The organizer of the event swears it's not a joke.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42806120

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  • Stern@lemmy.world
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    So a bunch of billionaires in one place you say?

    Guillotine sounds intensify

    • cjoll4@lemmy.world
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      If only! 😞

      Online conversation about Kauffman’s planned event has continued to alternate between incredulity and ridicule. “I can’t imagine billionaires marching in the street,” one social media user said, of the event.

      That person would probably be right.

      Kauffman told TC that, so far, he isn’t aware of any actual billionaires planning to attend the march that has been organized in their honor. Kauffman said that the event is likely to include “a few dozen attendees,” although he stressed that he really isn’t clear on how many people would show up.

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      Like Luigi shooting fish in a barrel

    • alaphic@lemmy.world
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      Ah, finally! A man after my own heart 🥲

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        Sounds like he’s after billionaire hearts

        • alaphic@lemmy.world
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          ba dum tss

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      I feel like they are threatening us with a good time.

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    I really want to see this guy march alone with a single sign that says “Protect Billionaire Rights”

    Billionaires have it the worst. people are always going “you could do this for the world,” “you could feed children,” but nobody is asking why they’re stuck with a single 300ft yacht when they really want that 400ft yacht with two helicopter pads.

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        Yeah, that seems to be what they do

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      It would be one guy with three dozen armed security contractors around him in full mercenary kit

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      That sign would be about as welcome as John McLane was at the start of Die Hard 3.

      Yeah, that sign with that slur. Except there wouldn’t be Samuel L kicking about to save him.

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        I had to look it up as apparently I’ve only seen the most polite of the TV versions, being “I hate everybody”

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    Satirical image of the "Don't Tread On Me" logo. A boot with dog excrement is about to stomp on a snake, who is licking said excrement. A caption over the snake reads "No need to tread, for I will gladly lick the dog shit from your black leather oxford"

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      This isn’t so much licking boots as deepthroating them up to the knee.

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        Snakes can do that too

        • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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          Please don’t remind us of that comic

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            If it is any consolation I have no idea what comic you are thinking of.

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    We know billionaires aren’t going to do the work themselves. Finally we will get to see who these “paid protesters” are that I keep hearing about.

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    This is like a sketch from whose line is it anyway

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      Nah— they were actually funny

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    Now we know where to look for the real paid protesters.

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    How much can you hire a sniper for? Might be worth picking off the 4 guys who show up for this. Just a thought?

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    Eggs are the worst for clean up.

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    It’s past 11:00 now. Did ANYONE show up?

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    There are dozens of us!

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    Anybody who shows up to protest for billionaires is an idiot.

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