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The elite must be shitting themselves about how much joy us poors are finding out of this.

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58 points

STOP CALLING THEM ELITE.

The word ‘elite’ implies they are societies best. These rich dregs keep dragging us down.

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22 points

Whenever I hear the rich described as “the elite”, my brain immediately converted it to ThE eLiTe

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My brain converts it to lowers. Their only advantage is their ability to screw people over without it affecting their personal health. Whereas the rest of us would lose sleep being that much a evil shithead.

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10 points

Meh, the connotation is still clear.

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10 points

How about we just airquote them? The „Elite“ sounds condescending enough imo

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8 points

I call them the leech class.

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True, if you look at people taking power and control in MAGA America, many are there because of their white skin and not resume or skill

Edit sorry if this comes across as racist, the intent is more to highlight how some of these people bring nothing else to the table

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7 points

Scum floats to the top.

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6 points

They’re rent-seeking parasites

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5 points

Call them gentry

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3 points

Lazy parasite class?

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Elite in this case refers to the ability to exert power and privledge. Everyone who is in a society does so to some level. (Obviously much less)

It is not a term of adoration.

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54 points

If corporations can convince people that Coke is better than Pepsi … or vice versa … then it will just take time to make people forget about all this. They can market and promote any idea … just some ideas are more expensive to promote than others … and it will take them a lot of time and effort to spin this story in their favour … but eventually, they always do.

I don’t like to admit that people are complacent … but hell, we’ve all got a great track record for it … I hope not this time, but I’ve been disappointed far too many times before.

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45 points

Everyday we all get up and make capitalism happen. It’s up to us to stop making it.

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19 points

You first. I like food

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14 points

I keep scrolling the news to see if they know anything new about him, and they know absolutely nothing. It’s amazing.

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8 points

Or at least they have released nothing.

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Which would mean either they don’t want to catch him (because even the police hate CEOs), or what they do know makes them look even worse (because he’s mocking them, or should be easy to find with what they know).

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