Posted on 02/07/2019 2:53:45 PM PST by Sir Napsalot
'The Young Turks' commentator Hasan Piker explains why 'billionaire' is a dirty word and warned that a more equitable redistribution of wealth is coming, "by policy or by pitchforks."
HASAN PIKER, THE YOUNG TURKS: Technological advances have rendered globalism an unstoppable force so we have to adapt to it. One immediate way of doing that is through drastic wealth redistribution and that starts with banning billionaires. Part of the point of having a society, of having government is to "promote the general welfare." Welfare -- it's literally right there in the preamble in the Constitution.
Yet for some reason, we've been propagandized into believing that the purpose of the government is to clear the path for individuals to acquire and hoard ungodly amounts of wealth, regardless of the consequences to the rest of us or the health of the society as a whole. …
Look, this may scare you. But a more equitable distribution of wealth is coming, whether it is by policy or by pitchforks. So it's up to you guys. Which one is it going to be?
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
My reading of the Constitution did not tell me government is there to "promote the general welfare" by redistribution of my wealth, but YMMV.
Rule 308.
First, how much does this piker make and why isn’t he/she/it already redistributing THEIR income NOW as an example to follow?
Tough talk from a pajama boy, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Does this clown really think the Founders were referring to wic,snap,afdc,medicare and section 8?
Bring it.
May as well get this thing done sooner rather than later.
We all know it’s going to happen.
And we all know we’re not assuming the Dorkbama position.
Let Hasan the Piker and his comrades advance the revolution under fire.
That’s if he’s serious and not just an internet Rambo.
Indeed.
The fact that billionaires exist has zero to do with those who live in poverty.
‘Rule 308.”
Indeed.
That’s how we get them to the guillotine...if they get that far.
It’s starting to look like left will eventually just have to be euthanized.
Rule 303.
Enfield fan here. Breaker Morant fan, too.
;^)
Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.
Butt nuggets like this guy are only threats to the established Democratic party. Their radical socialist views do nothing but divide the status quo of Pelosi and Schumer and old-school morons like them.
Normal people do not take people like Piker (aptly names) seriously.
pitchfork to a gun fight? you’re on
And just WHAT are all of these brain dead little COMMIES going to do when the extremely wealthy and yes, even just the sort of wealthy 1) move out of this country 2)stop working/close their companies/take their money out of the markets 3)do whatever else it takes to keep their money and stuff ?
A pitchfork isn’t worth a **** against an AR.
Thou shall not steal—Exodus 20:15
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor—Exodus 20:17
Stick that in your bong and smoke it.
You’ll need more than pitchforks boy.....
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