Food and energy companies more than doubled their profits in 2022, paying out $257 BILLION to already wealthy shareholders at a time when globally, more than 800 million people were going hungry.
Only 4 cents in every dollar of tax revenue came from wealth taxes, & around half the world’s 2,700 or so billionaires live in countries with no inheritance tax on money they give to their children. The UK has around 170 billionaires, many of whom have non dom status. #TaxTheRich
A tax of just 5% on the world’s multimillionaires & billionaires could raise $1.7 TRILLION (an almost unimaginable amount) a year - enough to lift TWO BILLION people out of poverty, & fund a global plan to end hunger.
Not all rich people are greedy selfish bastards, but what do those who ARE greedy & self-interested multimillionaires & billionaires - along with the governments (like the UK's) they fund & who represent their interests - do to protect themselves from democracy & the 99%?
The level of net wealth that marks the threshold for entering the top 1% varies widely among different countries & territories eg to be in the top 1% of earners in the US, you need to bring in $600K/yr, & in terms of net worth, have around $11million (in the UK about £2million).
I missed this story about Kevin Roberts - President of the Heritage Foundation & the man behind #Project2025, who has close ties to Truss, Patel, Oliver Dowden & Jenrick (who have all given speeches at the Heritage Foundation) - KILLING HIS NEIGHBOUR'S DOG WITH A SHOVEL!
“He was discussing in the hallway with various members of the faculty, including me, that a neighbor’s dog had been barking pretty relentlessly... he kind of lost it & took a shovel and killed the dog. End of problem,” said Kenneth Hammond, chair of the History Dept at the time.
Farage may become Britain's Trump, & Reform UK, Britain's Republicans: same divisive 1930s-style propaganda; same support from the same handful of billionaires; same climate change denial; same policies, from the same opaquely funded global network of free-market think-tanks.🤑
Tommy Robinson CHECKS HIS SOURCES, so he knows Evie is a right-wing online magazine which has spread COVID-19 & vaccine misinformation, & has a traditionalist/antifeminist worldview.
In 2022, Evie launched an app which collects menstruation data, funded by Peter Thiel.
Evie’s anti-vax blogs provide a window into how COVID denialism & misinformation are being marketed in right-wing women’s media. Evie’s founder and editor-in-chief is a former model turned would-be Catholic lifestyle influencer named Brittany Martinez.
In 2023, Rolling Stone described as the "Gen Z ‘Cosmo’ for the far-right" (so Tiny Tommy obviously gravitates towards it), the Peter Thiel-linked Evie Magazine is "harnessing the culture war to grow its audience."
Nazi propaganda dehumanized Jews in order to facilitate the Holocaust.
In the book 'Unhumans', right-wing conspiracy theorists Jack Posobiec &Joshua Lisec claim that Progressive-minded Americans are bloodthirsty Communist "unhumans" hellbent on destrying civilization.
This 🧵quotes this article by Gil Duran of @GeorgeLakoff's #FrameLab. George is a cognitive linguist & philosopher, best known for his thesis that our lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors used use to explain complex phenomena.
Here's the context debunking the abhorrent lies about Springfield Haitians 'eating geese & pets' currently being pushed by Trump, Vance, endless gullible MAGAs, & much of the US right-wing media, which have so far resulted in two bomb threats.
Not content with attacking the UK & Brazilian Governments & spreading wild conspiracy theories, petulant sociopathic politically illiterate one-man-disinformation machine Elon Musk has now lambasted Australia’s government as “fascists”.
The Australian Government has proposed laws that could levy substantial fines on social media companies if they fail to comply with rules to combat the spread of #disinformation and online scams - which Musk has zero interest in doing.
The billionaire owner of @X posted the word “fascists” above a childish tweet posted by the Tesla-loving dimwit who designed the shit X logo, who referred to misinformation as "so-called misinformation".