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[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 62 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] takeda@lemm.ee 42 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Since 1975 $79 trillions flew from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. That's twice amount as our current national debt.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Reagan was a putz and we were a bunch of schmucks

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

Lemmy is broken. It's only letting me upvote you once. I want to upvote many times.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 5 days ago

Hey, that's not fair. We still are a bunch of shmucks!

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Some of the graphs are useful, but the message that site is pushing is weird gold-bug propaganda.

[–] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] shadowDingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And my industrial sized bottle of lube!

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago

And my 48 horsepower fuck machine!

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 days ago

Katniss save us!