r/olympia thread

It’s locked.

Okay, y’all are being a little too mean for this subreddit.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    A Bluesky comment

    For context: WA is close to passing a law that would add a tax to people earning 1M+ per year that would remove sales tax on various hygiene products and medicine, fund tax credits for families under the poverty line, and provide free meals for students. I guess that’s Nazism to them!

    I still have no idea if it’s satire or those people have lead poisoned brains.

  • microfiche [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    first they came for the millionaires and I moved out of the way and let them take the millionaires because fuck the millionaires.

    • carl_marks_1312 [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      First they came for the millionaires and I said nothing while looking approvingly. Then they came for the Zionists and Fascists and I said nothing looking and started to slowly clap my hands. Last they came up to me and gave me housing, a job and a future, but there was noone to spoil it anymore and I started cheering. Thank you Marx

  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    for me personally it’s how the poem is about how they came for the communists and presumably they’re crying about a policy they perceive as communism. But also I’m sure it’s some kind of modest wealth tax that enables them to build something that’s not the torment nexus.