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2. A kinder, gentler fascist state
Fri Nov 20, 2015, 09:32 PM
Nov 2015

I'm not suggesting we take billionaires and subject them to torture until they admit that their money is used to create unrest and suffering around the world for the expressed purpose of lining their own pockets. And I am not suggesting that the torture of billionaires should continue until they give their wealth away and/or experience the loss of everything they love, their history, their people, all meaning in their lives and be forced to beg for asylum only to be turned away by ignorant assholes who spit on them as they stagger away into the night. But I am saying its time to consider the fact that the power we give these rich bastards is as ephemeral as digits on the NASDAQ board, as fragile as an economy based on tulips. We need to ask ourselves how much is enough for any one human being? And take the rest back...

Tell me Saban, would you rather be a penniless pariah with the world applauding your slow spiritual death, or a man of adequate means who recognises his obligation to the species?

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