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Re:My YouTube Earnings by majani on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @08:52AM (#34231276)
For example outright confiscation of wealth above $100m is quite a popular sentiment amongst liberals right now
Re:My YouTube Earnings by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @09:14AM (#34231528)
The original claim was:

> liberals, when given the power, will corrupt into totalitarism in a few months.

Is your complaint an actual example of that? I've never actually heard the argument - I've heard "billionaires should not exist", but never "we should have a 100% tax on those making more than $100m", so I don't know if the claim you're making is as popular as you're making it out to be, nor do I believe is it an example of totalitarianism.

I also don't see actual examples of liberal governments doing that. People say lots of crazy stuff online, but "liberals say the darndest thing" is not the claim here.

Re:My YouTube Earnings by overrun11 on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @11:46AM (#34233892)
> nor do I believe is it an example of totalitarianism

These conversations never go anywhere. The battlelines are already drawn. It just becomes a semantic debate around loosely defined terms like totalitarianism.

Re:My YouTube Earnings by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:21PM (#34234449)
Yeah, fair enough. It's become synonymous with "something I don't like".