FUCK

11/11/2025 9:14:48 PM

Do the people with a lot of money have too much power?

I don't get the point of your original comment with moron

11/11/2025 9:19:10 PM

Billionaires are just an aberration in the system. It’s not personal. It just was never meant to have them

It’s like if you’re eating blueberry pancakes and all the blueberries ended up in 1 pancake because your batter was too thin and they sank to the bottom.

The blueberries aren’t evil, the pancake batter wasn’t evil, but the system was poorly prepared.

11/11/2025 9:24:25 PM

I agree that money buys political influence and power too easily

I also agree to some extent that "the rich" have too much money. In the sense that society would be better off if the distribution of income and wealth in this country (oh and don't get me started on globally cuz then every single one of you eat the rich complainypants would be eligible for the mob's wrath) were shifted a bit

But the poll didn't ask if people thought rich people have too much money. The results would probably be similar (although I would guess a bit less Yes responses)


It's like asking people
Do hot chicks get away with speeding too much
vs
Are hot chicks too hot

[Edited on November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM. Reason : I can make a bojangles bacon egg and cheese analogy if that'd help??]

11/11/2025 9:25:24 PM

^ if we could restore norms against billionaires in politics that would work too. But that would just lead to us taking their money eventually (until the billionaires buy new norms to protect themselves). Which is why you can’t depend on norms to fix structural issues

11/11/2025 9:45:18 PM

^^^WTFever. George Washington was one of the richest men of his time. He would be deeeeeep into billionaire territory by today’s standards from a perspective of his wealth relative to others or as a share of GDP.

[Edited on November 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM. Reason : And early on, the system was MORE beholden to those with wealth]

11/11/2025 11:59:16 PM

Quote :

"It's like asking people Do hot chicks get away with speeding too much vs Are hot chicks too hot"

Yes exactly. The whole success-loathing jealousy so prevalent on the left is the biggest reason I can’t stand them. I hate Trumpism maybe even more than you commie liberals do, but I can never be genuinely on the other side as long as that streak is widespread.

[Edited on November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM. Reason : Hot chicks cannot be too hot.]

11/12/2025 12:04:25 AM

How does thinking some people have too much money equal "success-loathing"?

11/12/2025 12:19:51 AM

Quote :

"The far right blames all of society’s problems on immigrants. The far left blames all of them on billionaires. Both push a zero-sum, silver-bullet story that reduces an incredibly complex society to a caricature. It’s the worldview of a child. It's emotionally satisfying, simple-minded, and completely incapable of solving real problems."

11/21/2025 1:56:30 PM

which of those two groups has more power than the other?

11/21/2025 5:55:25 PM

In the U.S., the top 0.1% hold around $23 trillion in wealth. In comparison, the bottom 50% hold only about $4.2 trillion total.

11/21/2025 6:07:39 PM

Quote :

"We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/top-20-billionaires-american-elections/"

[Edited on November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM. Reason : E]

11/21/2025 10:30:10 PM

https://12axes.vercel.app/

10/2/2026 3:00:00 PM

My clanker took it based on my profile it constructed here.

10/2/2026 3:35:29 PM

10/2/2026 4:12:40 PM

How did it know how to calculate without me answering a question?

10/2/2026 4:38:28 PM

Me and qfred are like identical?

10/2/2026 4:49:37 PM

The link I posted was to my results, I just shortened the URL for visual simplicity.

[Edited on October 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM. Reason : I chose it depends for probably over half the questions. Wish it took text field input and included LLM analysis as part of the calculation]

10/2/2026 4:59:11 PM

10/2/2026 5:16:31 PM

Sttexan, with all love, i must say: lol

[Edited on October 2, 2026 at 5:43 PM. Reason : E]

10/2/2026 5:43:14 PM

10/2/2026 5:59:49 PM

I wasn't in a conducive environment! lol

Are we doing 5 min or 30 min test?

[Edited on October 2, 2026 at 6:12 PM. Reason : ^and thats an awesome post lol]

[Edited on October 2, 2026 at 6:20 PM. Reason : These are hard...i'm only done with 18]

10/2/2026 6:11:53 PM

I discovered my ideological profile on the 12 Axes Political Quiz!

?? Most compatible ideology:
Keynesian Liberalism - 93% compatibility

?? Most compatible country/nation:
Illinois (United States) - 92% compatibility

?? Most compatible personality:
Jonas Gahr Støre - 95% compatibility

?? Take the test and share your result:
https://12axes.vercel.app/en

[Edited on October 2, 2026 at 7:18 PM. Reason : G]

10/2/2026 7:17:33 PM

I guess this is ok. Norway seems cool

10/2/2026 7:38:51 PM

Norway is very cool!

10/2/2026 10:10:06 PM

I’d throw my phone out of the window if Elon popped up on mine

10/2/2026 11:53:18 PM

surprise

[Edited on October 3, 2026 at 12:39 AM. Reason : the socialist urge to destroy property rather than produce it.]

[Edited on October 3, 2026 at 12:40 AM. Reason : oh, he wanted to send them all to palestine too]

10/3/2026 12:37:20 AM

Lol

10/3/2026 12:38:37 AM

legit have never heard of the guy

do you think I’m antisemitic?

10/3/2026 10:51:35 AM

I think you're ignorant.

10/3/2026 11:04:21 AM

go on…

10/3/2026 11:11:05 AM

Quote :

"legit have never heard of the guy"

10/3/2026 11:11:41 AM

Same here honestly

10/3/2026 11:13:46 AM

we're only human

[Edited on October 3, 2026 at 11:17 AM. Reason : Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. -famed Elon Musk-style Capitalist and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin]

10/3/2026 11:14:28 AM

I was surprised i was more irreligious than tgl3

[Edited on October 3, 2026 at 11:17 AM. Reason : I bet i woulda got 93% had i put strongly agree or disagree more]

10/3/2026 11:16:14 AM

I’m sure you’ve watched hours and hours of youtube videos about the guy

10/3/2026 11:18:19 AM

10/3/2026 11:27:46 AM

That one says still processing...there were 2 last week that didn't play cause said i had to sign in

[Edited on October 3, 2026 at 11:30 AM. Reason : Oh nvm ^ works now]

10/3/2026 11:30:28 AM

Somebody needs a Fourier transform!

10/3/2026 12:03:47 PM

I took it 3x. I got:

Accelerationist, with my archetype as Barry Goldwater
Atlantiscist, with my archetype as Anders Fogh Rasmussen (PM of Denmark)
Liberal Centrism, with my archetype as Jerome Powell

the last one seemed to have a lot of questions where I answered "it depends/neutral" and I think was less of a good characterization, although still not far off.

(it's prob 80% different questions every time)



[Edited on October 3, 2026 at 1:03 PM. Reason : ]

10/3/2026 12:58:19 PM

interesting. perhaps it's not as well designed an instrument as I was led to believe.

[Edited on October 3, 2026 at 1:15 PM. Reason : i don't really consider Capitalist to be the core of my politics anyhow. i've turned out too poor for that to really be my true nature. i do value the freedom to conduct business without unnecessary interference but that's mostly so that we can more quickly deliver technologies that expand the opportunity for human flourishing]

[Edited on October 3, 2026 at 1:15 PM. Reason : hi theduke always good to see you around these parts]

10/3/2026 1:14:22 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/tamaranopper.bsky.social/post/3mwyj3nusf22m

Quote :

" Ta-Nehisi Coates said, ”I‘ve been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I’m not qualified to talk about.” ”No one person should be the oracle or be the articulator…be skeptical of people who attempt to appoint themselves as that. I don‘t want that job at all.”"

10/3/2026 7:57:04 PM