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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 13
BOOMER: “Nobody wants to work anymore.”
ME: “The warehouse down the road pays $18 an hour.”
BOOMER: “That’s good money.”
ME: “Average rent is $2,200.”
BOOMER: “Get roommates. Work overtime. Stop complaining.”
Funny how every “solution” demands workers lower their standards, kill their free time, and live like broke college students forever.
But nobody ever tells corporations to pay enough to survive.
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 13
People keep saying we’re in Idiocracy but President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho at his core wanted what was best for his people and when evidence presented itself he listened to experts to solve the problem. By all accounts a better leader than this.
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 13
Billionaire wealth is only real money when they want to buy things, not when they need to pay taxes. How is this not considered tax evasion?
Jun 13
If you can’t tax billionaires and trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity.
If it’s not real enough to tax, it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage.
This is why we say the system is rigged in favor of the super wealthy. Abolish billionaires, tax them out of existence, protect working people.
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 12
If you are celebrating Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire while living paycheck to paycheck, I have secondhand embarrassment for you.
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 12
The amount of joy it gives me that he gets to see his stupid name chiseled off a real president’s memorial… 😈
Jun 12
Work crews are on scaffolding outside the Kennedy Center where it is expected that letters of Donald Trump's name would be removed after litigation.
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 12
Opinion: You might have thought the world’s richest man had enough on his plate teeing up history’s biggest IPO. Yet he has been devoting many of his waking hours to stoking up racial hatred in Britain on his social media site. ft.trib.al/wsenHsI
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 12
If you earned $10,000 a day from the dawn of humans 300,000 years ago, you'd have earned less money than Elons wealth.
Tax this shit out of billionaires (and one trillionaire)
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 12
Capitalism is better than socialism because one man gets to be a trillionaire instead of everyone having healthcare
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Robert Gauld retweeted
The world Cup has started with an opening ceremony in Mexico, as presumably they couldn't guarantee a flag-bearer from every country making it through US immigration
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 11
We're going to charge interest on medical debt now when we're also the only developed country where people go bankrupt from medical debt
Jun 11
The Trump administration is quietly moving to change the Affordable Care Act to let health insurers offer people loans to pay for their care.
Deep in a document over 1,000 pages long about how the Affordable Care Act market will operate next year, the administration suggests that insurers consider offering loans to cash-strapped customers.
Under this approach, people who develop a costly disease or need unexpected emergency care would turn to their health insurer for loans.
A third of American households already have medical debt, and this approach would mean even more debt that patients owe to their health insurance companies.
The insurers, who already make billions, would stand to make even more.
nytimes.com/2026/06/11/busin…
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 11
Commercial advertising, product placements, and corporate-sponsored promotions are explicitly prohibited on national parklands. The White House lawn is a unit of the National Park System. It also violates standard Anti-Vending and Solicitation Laws as well as misuse of public funds and government endorsement ethics. Everything this administration does spits in the face of our laws. Everything is a grift.
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 11
feels very on brand for musk to get ratio'd on a website he bought for forty four billion dollars
Jun 11
Elon Musk can say what he likes about me but I won't stay silent whilst foreign tech billionaires, money earned off the backs of real workers, try to interfere in our democracy, incite violence in our communities and tear apart our country.
Time for him to pipe down.
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Robert Gauld retweeted
66303 passing a very wet Prestonpans with what can only be described as the heaviest load on our railway at the moment (sarcasm people!)
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 8
“why waste expensive teachers on povvy kids when we can just stick them in front of the machine that gets everything wrong, completely fuck their education up then force them into workfare for the rest of their lives”
Sir Keir Starmer has announced that AI tutors will be rolled out to 450,000 children on free school meals to close the attainment gap.
Speaking at London Tech Week, the PM also announced the government's new AI jobseeking tool.
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 9
This feels like a poster you would find inside an abandoned high school as worldbuilding in a post-apocalyptic video game
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 9
Note to America: The World is a necessary component of a World Cup
Some World Cup players and team staff are being questioned or barred from entering the U.S., angering fans and heightening concerns about how immigration enforcement will be carried out during one of the world’s most international sporting events. wapo.st/4oiZiOc
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 9
If we can afford trillionaires, we can absolutely afford for everyone to earn a living wage. The very concept of a trillionaire when the bottom half can't afford rent is batshit crazy.
Working people CANNOT AFFORD a trillionaire.
Billionaires are obsessed with growing their already obscene amounts of wealth, at the expense of our jobs and our safety.
Organizing stronger unions and building real power for working people is the only way forward.
Because greedy CEOs and AI billionaires will never withstand the collective power of our solidarity.
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Robert Gauld retweeted
Jun 8
They act like the biggest threat to society is a single mom buying soda with food stamps instead of a billionaire buying his 13th senator.
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Robert Gauld retweeted
jobcentre LLM creating slop for recruitment agency LLMs to misinterpret, sending hallucinated LLM slop to employers for jobs that have been listed online by LLMs, ensuring no humans are involved in any part of the process:
the perfect summary of today's economy
Keir Starmer to unveil 'Jobcentre in your pocket' AI tools in major tech speech
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/k…
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Robert Gauld retweeted
they've built concentration camps and i'm expected to act like it's a mere difference of political opinion
🚨 ICE announces it will no longer report deaths of recently released detainees.
This comes after the deaths of recently released detainees surge to a two-decade high.
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