Trebuchet. Really powerful trebuchet
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The phrase "a lot of money" means two very different things here. The difference in scale between illegal immigrants and the jobless, and the oligarchs, is so many orders of magnitude that's the difference between them and you is near nothing. Billionaires are not just a little bit richer than you, they have more hoarded than you will make in your lifetime, while illegal immigrants and jobless are more than likely worse off than you and if they're not you should be shouting to improve your lot not shouting to worsen theirs
A quick google search shows that the total the UK spent on unemployment benefits last year was £1,860,000,000, and on illegal immigration cost £3,000,000,000. Meanwhile Rishi Sunak (our prime minister) and his wife are worth about £1,200,000,000 between them. The median net worth in the UK is apparently £302,500 - that means Sunak and his wife have NEARLY FOUR THOUSAND TIMES more money than most people in the UK, or, if you subtract one from the other, about £1,200,000,000 more money than the average UK household. The Sunak family could literally count most net worth as a rounding error!
Scale on that... well... scale is hard for humans to grasp, but it really does matter in this case
Now I'm not saying he should pay for all of it personally, but he should certainly stop making a song and dance about it and pay his own fair share! The average UK household paid about £55,641 in tax last year. Rishi Sunak pair £1,900,000. Yes that's more but it's only 34 times more. Lets be generous and assume that his wife paid twice as much so it;s 100 times more (she doesn't, she's officially non-domiciled and therefore pays about £30,000 to avoid paying UK tax of potentially £20,000,000 in tax), that's still about 2.5% percent of the average taxation as a percentage of net worth.
This should make you angry
I once saw and am still disappointed I didn't buy, a hoodie that read "Social engineering: Because there's no patch for human stupidity"
Is this... is this satire?
Reasonable were this a formal debate, bit sadly it's not and I really don't care enough to check. Disbelieve me, believe me, or check for your yourself as you see fit
The problem is that "using words" doesn't stop violence against people i care about
Hey, do the world a favour my dude: punch your boss right in the kisser
what happened? I mean from what i know of the guy I hope it was at least mildly unpleasant, but did something actually happen to him?
Authoritarian, yes, fascist, no. We need the term fascist at the moment to call out actual fascists, diluting it by using it label people who aren't fascists but are also problematic plays directly into the misinformation the fascists thrive on
I thought this was the joke