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Vee via xmanmonk

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:08:27 -0700 from mastodon

Felis_Catus_Domesticus

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:12:55 -0700 from mastodon

@Vee

Felis_Catus_Domesticus

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:13:09 -0700 from mastodon

@Vee

AccordionBruce

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:35:22 -0700 from mastodon

@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @Vee
People are missing that they don’t want to go back to the 50s when progress started to be made

They really want to go back to that 7% tax rate in 1912

With 1920s style immigration laws forbidding anybody but white Northern Europeans (clearly no Irish)

That’s when white vigilante violence destroyed Reconstruction’s gains and established America’s Jim Crow laws

(echoing through Nazi Germany, South Africa’s Apartheid, and Israel’s modern regime)

Felis_Catus_Domesticus

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:14:19 -0700 from mastodon

@Vee

Alas, the people who most need to see this, never will...

Image/photo

lankohr

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:14:43 -0700 last edited: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:48:05 -0700 from mastodon

@Vee Values like war, but please no science and culture on the cover of national geographic?

TroikaFox

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:19:00 -0700 from mastodon

@Vee

Yeah, that sums it up doesn’t it.

Evelyn Octavia

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:45:21 -0700 from mastodon

@Vee ah, why do people love racism, again?

Gemlog

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:42:45 -0700

I do not know. It's really weird. Makes no sense.

GlennMG

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:42:30 -0700 from mastodon

@Vee 😵‍💫😂

Peter Brown

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:03:06 -0700 from mastodon

@Vee going back to the 50s is a program quite a lot of people could get behind.

Chart showing the Top rates of income tax for the highest earners in which the 1950s the rate was over 90%

Chart showing the Top rates of income tax for the highest earners in which the 1950s the rate was over 90%