As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
The thing to remember about that "First they came for" thing is that A, the guy who wrote it was a complacent Nazi until it was his turn, and B, our modern Nazis have read the damned thing and are using it as a roadmap.
Fascist elsewhere said I'd repent my unbelief at the last moment, facing the fear of eternal hellfire. (He was really upset about the existence of gays: there's a man should really suck a dick and get it over with.)
But no. Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov went out with their dignity intact. So will I.
The rapture was *today*, the conservatives got it wrong again.
Liberals as far as the eye could see. Lots of blue hair. Don't think any conservatives made it. But sitting at His right hand and singing His praises for all eternity is even more boring than it sounds, so most of us decided to come back.
A guy who I've known many decades said that my embrace of the far left had lowered his opinion of me a lot.
We were talking about wealth taxes, qua my earlier post about 90% tax rates. But not just income taxes, estate taxes, real estate taxes, generally speaking, asset taxes.
The billionaire class has to cease to exist. What the bootlickers defending them seem to not understand, is that this is the *nice* way to make that happen.
Born at 318 parts per million carbon dioxide. On 2025/02/14 it was 427.44 ppm. "He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."