Post #2119677

2026-05-06 01:30 UTC

"Instead of being singled out and scorned in viral videos, Roth, CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, thinks the ultra-rich should be 'praised and thanked' and said calls to tax them more are akin to racial slurs." WTF? link to article: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/real-estate-titan-compares-tax-the-rich-slogan-to-racial-slurs-00907424 #USPol #TaxTheRich #NYC #Resist

Replies (4)

@minmi@sfba.social 2026-05-06 03:57

@ahimsa_pdx every once in a while part of me is like “ok let me take a step back and reflect on whether maybe I’ve got this wrong and actually these guys are ok” and then they so helpfully say shit like this and I can just wrap up my whole reflection cause like nope, they’re really that out of touch with reality, morality, everything.

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@svines@gts.svines.rodeo 2026-05-06 03:59

@ahimsa_pdx that's ok, I'm happy to stop using "tax the rich" if they find it offensive and move to "guillotine the rich"

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@paavi@mastodontti.fi 2026-05-06 05:29

@ahimsa_pdx Capital does not feel any real connection to a country or state, hence the wealthy actors miss the point of taxation...or they skew the narrative to gain more capital and power.

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@Andii@mas.to 2026-05-06 07:04

@ahimsa_pdx If ever you wanted evidence that wealth induces some kind of altered mental state that is self aggrandizing and unmoored from social empathy ....

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