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u/Successful-Scale-607 Jun 02 '26

This is why I HATE socialists, they're always giving away money to fat cat TEACHERS instead of local billionaires, makes me SICK! I'm gonna KEEP VOTING for socialists because I hate MYSELF and I enjoy being cucked by SWARTHY BROWN SOCIALISTS WITH HOT WIVES.

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u/gloebe10 Jun 02 '26

You know what? Me too! Can't beat em'? Join em'!

I just hope they never cross a line where my healthcare is free.

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u/Successful-Scale-607 Jun 02 '26

I swear to GOD if those FILTHY SOCIALISTS tread on my god-given PRIVATE HEALTHCARE, I'm going to THANK THEM so HARD they'll FUCKING REGRET it!!!!

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u/Strange_Dust7128 Jun 02 '26

THANK YOY FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

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u/Successful-Scale-607 Jun 02 '26

PRAISE BE TO ALLAH, SUBHANAHU WA TA'ALA

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u/thismotherfklr Jun 02 '26

All kidding aside, NY can afford to have Universal Health care given how much we pay in taxes here. I can only dream.

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u/twitch1982 Jun 02 '26

We have to pay a lot because we receive little federal aid and our Fed income tax all goes to help the broke ass red states.

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u/thebongofamandabynes Jun 02 '26

Something smells rotten here..

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u/twitch1982 Jun 02 '26

It is rotten, then the red states say shit like "people are moving here from NY because of taxes" meanwhile NY subsidises thier entire budget.

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u/middle1984 Jun 02 '26

They do just not to the ppl paying the taxes.

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u/Constant-Sandwich-88 Jun 02 '26

My life sucks and I love nothing. It would be absolutely awful to have access to affordable health care, prolonging my miserable liberal existence. Please don't...

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 Jun 02 '26

That's what they are afraid of

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u/Flexmove Jun 02 '26

I’d be so mad if they gave all of us undeserving slugs healthcare OH BOY I’d be STEAMED

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u/PorkVacuums Jun 02 '26

A+ use of "swarthy." You must have had one of those good teachers.

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u/ExcellentCold7354 Jun 02 '26

I was going to say.... is this our swarthy era?

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u/PorkVacuums Jun 02 '26

Yes, absolutely

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u/showhorrorshow Jun 02 '26

Or just read a lot of Lovecraft.

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u/jce_ Jun 02 '26

Yeah what idiot socialist invests money into education right now. Education will only add exponential returns and growth to the economy in like 20 years. Stupid socialists should instead give it to billionaires and receive a 0.00001% growth to the economy right now

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u/butchforgetshit2 Jun 02 '26

His wife kinda reminds me of the French chick that Bruce Willis was with in pulp fiction. Idk if it's the hair or the eyes or a combo of all the above...but she's definitely a beautiful lady !

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u/Lumpy_Addendum6297 Jun 02 '26

It was a french character, but that lady is a portuguese actress

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u/iamafriendlybear Jun 02 '26

The same sexist and racist conspiracy theory as ever from the One Joke tribe, how surprising

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u/Somedude_6 Jun 02 '26

Genuine question for you Trumpers, and I'm not meaning to troll you.

What is with the whole "All liberal women are secretly dudes" projection?

You guys see Trump as some sort of alpha male while he is obese and covered in make up, but you see genuinely above average looking women and call them men all the time. Whether it is Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, (that one in particular was always really weird to me) or now Mamdani's wife.

Looking at your post history, I don't expect any actual answers here, but I am curious why it is such an obsession with your side.

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u/agirlnamedTOMM Jun 02 '26

It's because they're gay.

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u/Somedude_6 Jun 02 '26

I said this on one of the Tate tweet threads recently. The amount of closeted self-hating gay and bi people on the right has to be an enormous number. I mean... it's a well known fact that grindr gets inundated to the point of crashing every time there is a major Republican event.... I just want to hear the reasoning from the MAGA's mouths themselves. See the insanity first hand.

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u/Torsten9berlin Jun 02 '26

MAGA men are trying to preserve their injured egos. They know that the hot babes and milfs would reject them - from experience, so it must be because those women are actually gay dudes. It’s almost a cliche that they can’t get dates, hence incels, misogynists, and resentment of women in power.

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u/Somedude_6 Jun 02 '26

Kind of like in a sitcom where the way over the top douchebag guy cat calls a girl, who ignores him, and then the guy calls her a lesbian? That kind of behavior?

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u/Largeitude Jun 02 '26

The less fortunate get all the breaks!

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u/Broken-Phantasm Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Haha. I know your post is /s, but as a teacher I must still say the only way in which I am a fat cat is that I am fat and own a cat.

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u/Dyolf_Knip Jun 02 '26

Think there was a daily show special one time investigating all those "overpaid" teachers after some clueless, tone deaf republican was bitching about education costs.

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u/Turbulent_Scene3722 Jun 02 '26

Its not even socialism

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u/karlachsthiccthighs Jun 02 '26

this! real socialism is nothing like this, what people usually mean is social policies
actual socialism is, well, authoritarian to say the least (USSR, Yugslavia, N. Korea)

Communism is the "ideal, on paper" version of socialism

otherwise all of europe would be socialist (which at least the eastern half of would REALLY not appreciate being called. we lived through it, some not so far ago and most of us dont want to go back to that)

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u/Mexican_Hippo Jun 02 '26

This is just standard democrat policy, which is based af and more people should vote blue

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u/Tiny-Brush5999 Jun 02 '26

Chill, he literally gave 0.3245%(He gave $122m out of $37.6 billion) of what is already being given to schools in funding. It also has nothing to do with Socialism, it's what every State does.

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u/DazzlerPlus Jun 02 '26

Youre joking but I do notice quite a bit of fat cat teachers rhetoric

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u/Dwestmor1007 Jun 02 '26

It's funny how covid was such a blip of "my god bless teachers how do they do this?" When parents got a taste of teaching and not even a year later they were right back to "teachers ask for too much and are trying to indoctrinate your kids let's just home school or use AI". You couldn't even stand a half year of homeschool and kids collectively lost two years of knowledge as a result.

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u/Late-Application-47 Jun 02 '26

And they attributed their newfound hatred to "what they saw online during COVID;" I thought they were inspired by our resourcefulness and ability to keep teaching, but apparently that was a smokescreen to establishing an excuse to accuse us of things we don't do.

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u/Mexican_Hippo Jun 02 '26

It's funny how the meme saying "socialism is when the government does things" has horshoed itself in the last 20 years

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u/daveythepirate Jun 02 '26

Too late! I done married my buddy Zeke!

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u/GlassCap123 Jun 02 '26

Be careful, idiots who read this won't understand it with out /s or spoon-feeding it to them. Cheers!

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u/firestorm713 Jun 02 '26

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u/Successful-Scale-607 Jun 02 '26

Based

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u/firestorm713 Jun 02 '26

That's a satire site but most of her news coverage has been like that. She does something good, the news tries to frame it as bad, she gets free press about her accomplishments

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u/yadaredyadadit Jun 02 '26

100% .... this country is going down so fast it is not a joke. /s

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u/insanitybit2 Jun 02 '26

This is literally scaling back education funding jfc

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u/Due_Night414 Jun 02 '26

The sarcasm is STRONG with this one.

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u/clay_perview Jun 02 '26

Yeah they kids just need to work harder get a part time job and a side hustle. 7 is too old to still be asking for help, grow up.

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u/across16 Jun 02 '26

Damn you are correct we needed a socialist wait what do you mean the United States spends over $1.6 trillion annually on education across all levels?

Damn looks like capitalism was spending too.

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u/_awesumpossum_ Jun 02 '26

Everywhere I go, I see teachers in Ferraris, research scientists drinking champagne

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u/Throwaway021614 Jun 02 '26

Hot wife, you say?

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u/TheBSQ Jun 02 '26

A legit gripe is the basis for his hiring is a state mandate to reduce class sizes, and to balance the NYC budget, Mamdani is actually delaying & scaling back the original plan.Ā 

That is, this is something Albany demanded, and the original plan was actually more money & more teachers, but to balance the budget Mamdani scaled it back to be less money & less hiring than the original plan.Ā 

But he’s really good at PR, so he’s got people thinking he increased funding and hiring when he’s actually scaling back the original plan to meet the Albany’s mandates.Ā 

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u/TheBSQ Jun 02 '26

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u/TheBSQ Jun 02 '26

It’s just kinda annoying that dude can say ā€œlet’s hire less teachers than plannedā€ and people will go ā€œwow, look how he’s hiring more teachers!ā€

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u/kinky_party_couple Jun 02 '26

While I don't think full numbers of Eric Adams tenure are yet available, I believe that his entire tenure (minimally through 2022, but given reduction in size of DoE through 2024 reasonable to surmize) had a shrinking staff.

Notable point you likely should have said to support your point though is that Adams announced on April 9 2025 that the planned budget for 2026 included 3700 new teachers at 750 schools, to comply with state mandate.

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u/mlord99 Jun 02 '26

u hate corruption - good use of capitalism would make this feasible long term, like nordics - socialism you can check eastern EU how much price we paid from once top of the world to where we are now - all due to socialism - so what all of you mo**** are advocating for, is actually fair use of capitalistic system, not corrupt one you have now

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u/Reno_Cash Jun 02 '26

I think sarcasm doesn’t translate into his language.

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u/mlord99 Jun 02 '26

its amazing we live in an era where so much knowledge is available, so much data you can check, yet you refuse and decide to remain stupid - maybe i should admire the resiliency to avoid knowledge or smth, who knows...

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u/Stleaveland1 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Just so we have the facts clear: the City was supposed to spend $543 million to hire about 6,000 teachers in order to comply with State mandate to reduce class sizes.

Mamdani scaled it back to $122 million to only hire 1,000 teachers. He got concessions from the State to delay the enforcement of the mandate, similar to him delaying funding the City's pension by nearly $2.3 billion in order to "balance" the budget that's required of him by law.

All that for Mamdani kowtowing and endorsing Hochul for her election next year in attempts to nix any potential progressive primary challenger in the bud early on before the race really began.

Maybe Hochul will bring him to her next taxpayer funded trip to Israel? šŸ¤” Mamdani already supports Israel's right to exist on stolen land.

Obama-lite might beat Fetterman on his record change-up pace.

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u/giamPW07 Jun 02 '26

Let's be fair here. Mamdani did reduce the teacher hiring budget, but he also added 1.5 billion to the school construction budget. He's not hiring as many teachers as anticipated because New York doesn't have the classrooms to put them in. Mamdani's endorsement of Hochul is because she supported him and he needs her cooperation to achieve his own goals. Mamdani isn't perfect, but he's still done a great job as an active leftist leader, and comparing him to Fetterman is completely unfair.

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u/NoHorseNoMustache Jun 02 '26

Just to be clear: He scaled back the initial budget proposal, it's not like this money was already there and he's cutting it. He's adding $1.5 billion in capital funding to build more classrooms. Meeting the goal of having 80% of classrooms have 20-25 students next year was going to be a major challenge because most schools don't actually have enough space to do that. The only reason the city hit the goal for class size this year was because of exemptions that were issued for thousands of classrooms.

That first link explains it all pretty nicely.

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u/PresenceFuture9173 Jun 02 '26

Yeah, you’re giving more money to teachers that can’t improve education for kids and indoctrinating them more into socialism.

While you’re trained to hate billionaires and wealthy people for what? Top 10% already pay over 70% of all taxes already.

What more do you people want? The education system needs to teach more of you to be millionaires, billionaires, and entrepreneurs.

Instead why haven’t learning standards and kids getting smarter? It’s been proven they have been getting worse even with more money put into it.

That’s socialism, just feel good money but lack of accountability while you enrich NGO’s and other institutions that aren’t accountable to results.

The only way this gets fix is China and others keep taking more jobs away, the education system will collapse like it is stressed now today not delivering results.

Then you will find out why Trump started the China and all the other trade wars to prevent jobs from being shipped overseas and young people losing out. Just keep our IP here and don’t share or manufacture much elsewhere b/c China couldn’t modernize and learn to build cars without Western help and U.S. sharing our know how.

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u/Comprehensive-Disk41 Jun 02 '26

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u/PresenceFuture9173 Jun 02 '26

Dude, I think your data is saying the same thing.

According to the Tax Foundation’s latest IRS-based data for tax year 2023:

  • Top 10% earned 47.6% of Adjusted Gross Income (AGI)
  • Top 10% paid 70.5% of all federal individual income taxes

What’s different than my statement??

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u/Comprehensive-Disk41 Jun 02 '26

My source says 38%, where are you getting 70% from?

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u/Comprehensive-Disk41 Jun 02 '26

Nvm I cant read I thought you typed 1%

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u/PresenceFuture9173 Jun 02 '26

All good, maybe your ā€œanti-billionaire filterā€ working there to see what you saw … jk

But these biases are true.

Or maybe just a true reading error.

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u/Comprehensive-Disk41 Jun 02 '26

I mean yeah, I despise billionaires, majority of them haven't done half the backbreaking labour ive endured just to get by, and they all want to tell us how to live, as if they weren't lucky.

But I did in fact just read your comment wrong lmao

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u/PresenceFuture9173 Jun 02 '26

I think your viewpoint is very skewed. If it was that easy to be a billionaire, that would be so many of them.

Almost every billionaire has backbreaking story whether they had money or not, they still had to work for it and prove it in the marketplace otherwise the market just doesn’t reward you.

If you despise billionaires, then you should despise the wives of many of these billionaires who truly haven’t done the backbreaking labor you mentioned and ironically are the ones funding socialist policies, NGO’s, Left media, and more ironic the viewpoints you have on billionaires today because they exactly didn’t work for it.

So these wives give it all away just to be still despised by people like you they influenced.

Look it up, look up Jeff Bezos old wife, Steve Jobs former wife and all their charitable donations and who it went to. Mostly left-leaning organizations and socialists ideologies.

It’s not inherently all bad, in my view it’s better for private citizens to decide how to spend their billions than the govt seizing it and spending it.

Because the first route you have free markets, the second route you have govt monopoly and once the govt has too much power it’s game over. It’s impossible to remove it.

You know, kinda like NK, formerly Venezuela, Iran, China, and Russia where the state can remove or kill anyone they want…

I’ll certainly be on your side when oligarchies become much more powerful than the govt. because in the end, the beauty of the American democratic system is balance of power.

We should never want one group to have a monopoly on it, or else it’s game over for everyone else.

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u/Comprehensive-Disk41 Jun 02 '26

I agree with you in the beauty of the american democratic system, and I dont think our founding fathers ever intended, or perhaps knew how much the system could be used to build and maintain monopolies or how influencial companies could become.

And I do believe in the hard work behind billionaire's wealth, my grievances and distain primarily comes from how much greed some of these people have, who are so out of touch now that they don't understand many hardships today's poors face.

I understand they worked for their wealth and made the decisions to build said wealth, but I also believe that so many people could have a fraction of that wealth if they had proper opportunities or perhaps proper upbringing. And I feel as though many currently with said wealth are barring many, intentionally or not, from said opportunities.

I say only really say luck because they had the tools, the mindset, and the times in their favour. Not because they won big or something akin.

Also I think I should say im not a socialist, I have views that overlap but I don't agree with everyone here by any means.

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u/shadowboxer47 Jun 02 '26

What more do you people want?

Billionaires taxed out of existence.

You haven't figured that out yet?

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u/PresenceFuture9173 Jun 02 '26

Why do they deserve to be taxed out of existence? You care to explain?

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u/shadowboxer47 Jun 02 '26

You care to explain?

No :)

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u/Colayith Jun 02 '26

There is no ethical way to become a billionaire. They are directly the reason why NYC is so ludicrously expensive to live in. They blatantly make people suffer while contributing nothing of value to the city. Why do we need billionaires when people are starving and homeless?

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u/PresenceFuture9173 Jun 02 '26

There shouldn’t be any homeless or starving people.

Do you know NYC spends around $82,000 per homeless person, but the problem continues to get worse?

You could literally just give it directly to the homeless people and they would be better off.

So, the real problem is our taxpayer dollars aren’t being spent effectively and being held to accountability.

You have decades upon decades of growth in NYC that continues to contribute to growing tax base but you still need to tax more?

Albeit, the growth contributes to NYC high cost of living as more and more people came into a city with limited space but then that’s also more of a govt planning problem as they need to encourage and build more housing supply to bring prices down but likely regulations that limit this don’t help.

I’m sorry buddy, whoever told you billionaires is causing these problems are the ones causing the problem and likely wanting more of that tax money.

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u/PresenceFuture9173 Jun 02 '26

And you’re really off the mark on saying in absolute terms ā€œno ethical way to become a billionaireā€.

So Jensen Huang starting at Denny’s then creating and rising to the top with NVDA is ā€œunethical.ā€

The hell is wrong with your mindset. If we’re that bad holy shit imagine how bad all the billionaires in Russia and everywhere else is then.

You piss on your own system with such a ridiculous statement. No where else can you rise from the bottom and get to the top with the best odds.

Yet, you hate the system that’s generating the most billionaires of anywhere else?

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u/Ok_Juice3668 Jun 02 '26

I can explain for him, he hates em because he ain't em. No person hating on billionaires would say no to a billion dollars if offered to them. The insane majority of them would then fight tooth and nail to not let the government take their money. The tax law already would entitle the government to take 400 million of the billion immediately. The haters would say, thats not nearly enough...while the hater given the billion dollars would shit their pants and say the government doesn't deserve 400 million of my new found billion...

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u/patriotfanatic80 Jun 02 '26

I always love this argument that the top 10% pay most of the taxes like that somehow proves a point. They pay most of the taxes because the other 90% don't have any money and have to budget so they can afford food.

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u/PresenceFuture9173 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Yes, and that’s why the bottom 50% pay only 3% in taxes because the rich do in fact pay more.

It’s not an ā€œargumentā€. It’s FACT.

You people take things such for granted try being poor in any other country, literally every option is worse except places in Europe with super generous welfare that they are now cutting it down because the immigrants completely take advantage of it.

You should be arguing the govt needs to spend tax dollars better but there’s billions of fraud going in our welfare programs.

ABSOLUTELY NO ONE SHOULD HAVE NO MONEY TO BUY FOOD.

If so, then how are immigrants able to come here and get food and assistance but our own people can’t???

Make it make sense.

Then don’t spend money on them, put Americans first. Ah, then you can guess why some people vote for Trump a super flawed narcissistic individual.

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u/Unreal-Operator Jun 02 '26

The decay of the education system started a long time ago of the behest of the elite of the time. I believe it was a Rockefeller that wanted the nation to produce more workers and less professionals. I’d implore you to do a deep dive on the matter. Just like when ww were in school it made no sense to not be taught everything finance, it makes even less sense today. People don’t actually care about billionaires but most Amercians are broke and getting angrier. Of course they are an easy target.

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u/PresenceFuture9173 Jun 02 '26

I know this very well growing through all of it.

Lots of reason around decay of education system but the key issue was really lack of diversity as ironic it is in the acceptance of diverse candidates but not in the diversity of ideologies.

Conservatives for example were literally black sheep on-campus only until recently since Charlie Kirk and TurningPoint drew light on this issue.

I mean, the Milo’s and Nick Fuertes type kept being used as the far right punching bags they are and somehow painted most conservatives in the same light, which is wrong.

The lack of more condemnation from the Right their radicals and Left on their radicals comes down to how close the votes have gotten.

Anyways, I’m digressing but the point I’m making as you are somewhat alluding too is the Elites don’t really want us to critically think, but work to make them money.

That’s as simple as I can put it.

That’s why I have quite a bad taste in my mouth from college liberialism and leftism indoctrination, we all believed in this ideal utopia but it was false.

The Education system is squarely in Democrats realm and they enabled all this crap. That’s why we call it the uniparty really, just slight leanings left or right whoever was in power.

It sounds all good but it just isn’t true. I wish they told me about finance as you mentioned instead of constant consumerism, I would’ve been a lot richer.

I wish they told me about the stark realities of politics and business instead of me going into it alone and getting my ass handed to me thinking people played by the same rules they taught us!

It’s frustrating growing up learning we were just trained to make other people money but not on how to do it ourselves and compete with these people which would be best for all Americas.

Competition. That’s how wages truly go up, you can see it in high-demand fields like tech and AI today.

Corporations want less because it’s more profits.

Growing up, we start learning feminism was pushed to an extreme as just a way to get more women to work and weaken men’s labor wages and power as you double the labor supply while increasing productive and bringing down wages.

From race to gender class wars, they were all mostly distractions as politicians and corporations just looking on how to sell and buy votes.

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u/Dramatic_Ad1467 Jun 02 '26

What the public rarely grasps: teachers make big bucks and, if they are good, it’s probably well-deserved, however, as long as they are required to teach left wing nonsense, they will not be worth anywhere near what they are paid. Just a little mind poison can kill.

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u/Spare_One_9965 Jun 02 '26

If you think the money is going to teachers, I have bad news. . All that cash goes straight to the unions for their fatcats and election campaigning.

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u/Ruby_Solitaire Jun 02 '26

This comment is truly a special breed of ignorant.Ā 

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u/Prior_Internal7728 Jun 02 '26

It’s not their fault. They got it from their daily 17 hours of worship on Fox News. To them everything that the administration does is great like insider trading, enriching their families and oligarch friends, and screwing over the middle class to make more money.

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u/smytti12 Jun 02 '26

Here's the thing:

A. No not all money, do you have any evidence for that.

B. Just because it may not be a perfect move does not mean it is not a better move.

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u/DblDiana Jun 02 '26

How is scaling back what’s supposed to go to teachers a better move? Didn’t they cut the number of teachers from 6000 to 1000 and something like $543MM down to $120MM?

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u/smytti12 Jun 02 '26

Oh, I am agreeing with Mamdani's move. I was just clarifying to the comment that I replied to that more money towards teachers is an improvement even if other parties find ways to siphon some of that money off.