• GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Woops. You dropped your context. Here, let me brush it off for you.

    He’s not just saying the quiet part out loud. He’s deliberately pointing it out as a bad thing. WB is a billionaire and none are fully ethical, but at least give the full story. This is how misinformation spreads

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      i mean, i don’t see the op quote as trying to misrepresent or attack wb about this at all. thanks for the additional context, tho.

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        There are a lot of people who don’t know the context. Basically Buffett has been advocating for higher taxes on billionaires for decades, possibly longer than many of his younger critics have been alive.

        He doesn’t donate much money to politicians though. It’s all going to charity. Although, isn’t that a good thing?

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            Yeah, and it’s also not right that he single handedly gets to decide which charitable projects are worthy of donations and which ones are not. Whether or not he actually makes good choices in donating is beside the point.

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          Careful. The people here don’t take kindly to gray-areas.

          Edit: Thanks for proving my point, Tankies. As reliable as always.

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            What’s the grey area? The capitalist said the quiet part out loud (on purpose) to push the bandaid that is tax reform?

            Cool. We can still use his admission to point out this inherent adversarial relationship between classes and call for the reappropriation of his class’s wealth.

            Dude isn’t an ally. Unless your goal is tax reform. But the goal of any socialist should be to abolish private property and give the proletariat ownership of the means of production.

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            who, tho? again, nobody is taking this post the way you’re acting they are. what are you talking about?

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            Commies: nuanced position on geopolitics.
            Libs: screeeeeeeeech.
            Commies: nuanced opinion on capitalism.
            Libs: watch out, tankies can’t handle nuance