r/AOC • u/kevinmrr • 8d ago

Here’s another “radical” position: Every single billionaire belongs in prison.

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u/Loud-Vacation-5691 8d ago

Opposition to data centers is not a progressive position. It's not conservative either. It's something everyone can get behind - NIMBY.

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u/MedvedFeliz 8d ago

NIMBY

The kind of NIMBY-ism I can get behind

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u/BiggerChief 7d ago

Which makes me a little skeptical tbh. I see all the downsides, and I am not saying we need all the insane number and size of the data centres being built, but we do need a more nuanced approach, that includes ideas of how many data we use, what that means for data center capacity required, if so, where to put them. We need some balance between the heavy toll these things take, and the need for them.
But tbh it could be that AOC and Bernie have such a nuanced approach but I just have not seen it yet.

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u/Technical_Living5104 8d ago

Greg Abbott. Willing to give data centers tax exemption for 20 years. Election coming up, his constituents extremely pissed off. Moratorium immediately. He took 20 million from them. 20 million to them is the toilet paper they use to wipe their ass. Gina is neck and neck with this trump soldier. So he pivots. Now it’s gay people. I don’t want men in women’s sports. That’s stupid. No one is chopping off 8 year old penises. No agency is forcing 8 year old children to change their gender. But, the whole argument by the GOP is that gay people are ruining your life. They’re the problem. They’re pedophiles. Bathrooms. Absolutely, there are predators out there. It’s not gay people. It’s not transgender. It’s white males. Mostly conservatives who voted for Trump. Trump is a pedophile. He raped underage girls. Just release the files. Apparently he also trafficked girls to the UAE. Just release the files.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/intronert 8d ago

5’ 4”

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u/lalauna 8d ago

Tall enough to be president

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u/PeopleB4Profit 7d ago

She needs to get away from Bernie and get new handlers. But her job is not to be a progressive LEGISLATURE she is salesman selling Progressives Cars with no ENGINES

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u/UploadedMind 8d ago

Give up the wealth or we will take it and put you in prison.

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u/popularis-socialas 7d ago edited 7d ago

This is not something AOC or Sanders advocate for and I don’t believe this subreddit should voice this sentiment.

They’re about taxing the wealthy, not jailing them, unless they’ve broken the existing laws, which many of them indeed have.

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u/bokan 6d ago

It’s the same thing. Tax them, if they don’t pay, throw them in jail for tax evasion.

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u/caststoneglasshome 8d ago

I don't think people actually grasp the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire.

9,999 million plus a million.

Or...

1 million dollars a day for 27 years.

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u/jade420420 7d ago

A billion is a thousand million, not ten thousand million. So it is more like $1M/day for 2.7 years. Still a crazy amount but I think it's important to be accurate when using numbers.

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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 8d ago

I'm going to be down voted to oblivion for this, . . .

But they're not all the same. Seriously, just throwing ALL of any group in prison just because they fall within that group is a really bad idea. Maybe look at what they are doing?

There are actually billionaires out there that have principles and aren't just hoarders of wealth. There's a difference between the Mark Cubans and the Elon Musks. There's a difference between the Alan Treflers and the Sergey Brins. The failure to consider each person as an individual is not going to make things better.

Judge a person for what they do, not who they are.

Right now there are billionaires trying to cure diseases and building the research institutions to do it, not as tax write-off or PR, but because they believe in the cause. Do you really want to lump Mackenzie Scott in with her ex-husband?

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u/jupiter_kittygirl 8d ago

She is one in a billion.

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u/cyrand 8d ago

Then I’m judging her for the fact she still has billions made on the backs of regular working class people, and all her expenditures haven’t changed the fact she’s still a billionaire who’s picking and choosing which people she deigns to help like any feudal lord would.

Don’t forget it wasn’t that long ago people were racing that Mark Cuban and Elon Musk were good ones. The whole thing has ALWAYS been that anyone who hoards wealth to that point isn’t dividing up the earnings properly with the people actually doing the work.

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u/rockrunner62 4d ago

start w Soros

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u/daisiesarepretty2 8d ago

probably one of the dumbest ideas ever lol

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u/PeopleB4Profit 7d ago

A radical position is having the support of 70 US Senators and 287 US Reps needed to move the pendulum back just a tiny bit.

Stop being progressive fundraisers and become PROGESSIVES.

We are PROGRESSIVE AMEIRCANS not SOCIALIST! Socialist killed 60,000+ Americans

Ban god people in public restrooms, they commit the most EGREGIOUS crimes in all of mankind against CHILDREN. This is the easiest fight to win, and you chose redefining Americans as Socialist as the fight.
Remember the Gay Plague, did not see you there helping Americans Pass Peacefully.

Become PROGRESSIVE
This is the Fight

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u/intronert 8d ago

Agree, but I would probably give Rihanna a pass.

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u/UploadedMind 8d ago

No passes, give the up the wealth or we will take it and put them in prison.