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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 21:53:01 JST Aral Balkan

   Last day to sign a European Citizen’s Initiative to tax the rich.

   Not looking good.

   *sigh*

   Thank fuck the French Revolution didn’t require people to sign an online form or it might have all been just too much effort for some folks.

   https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

   #TaxTheRich #EU #apathy

   • Russell Garner (rgarner@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 21:57:29 JST Russell Garner

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     @aral I'd sign it, but you know, we got confidence-trickstered out of *those* rights

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 21:57:29 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Russell Garner

     @rgarner Tell me about it: my partner is British and we used to live in the UK. It’s the reason we’re not any longer :(

   • Thomas Anderson (gishgallopgirl@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:20:55 JST Thomas Anderson

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     @aral I would sign if I lived there and could do so. You have my sympathies. Maybe you can answer a question that comes up from my son on our show #GishgallopGirlPodcast a lot, though: Considering the tax breaks Macron has pushed for the wealthy, why would wealthy American grifter #CandaceOwens despise him as much as she does? She isn't the only one, but her work is the focus of my study, so do you have any idea?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:20:55 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Thomas Anderson

     @GishgallopGirl You mean apart from the fact that she’s batshit crazy? She’s about as far-right as they come (or, at least, that’s her grift). Macron is neoliberal. While that means that he will always pick te far right over the left – as demonstrated recently in his overturning the will of people to get into bed with the far right after the left won the last election in France – he’s still a “liberal” as far as MAGA folks like Candace are concerned.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:22:27 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
     • Thomas Anderson

     @onepict @GishgallopGirl This is true – they even doubled it. So, yeah, maybe there’s a reason the French Revolution happened in France :)

   • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:22:28 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

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     • Thomas Anderson

     @GishgallopGirl @aral Indeed, although France reached the threshold. It needs to be pan European, each EU country has a different threshold.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:23:26 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
     • Thomas Anderson

     @onepict @GishgallopGirl (Being a French citizen, I’m a tiny part of that statistic.) :)

   • Seb Molines (clafou@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:38:59 JST Seb Molines

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     @aral the French left parties shared the petition and it passed the threshold with ease. In Ireland I haven’t seen any political organisation sharing it.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:39:43 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Seb Molines

     @clafou The concept of taxing the rich absolutely terrifies the Irish government. They even went to court to stop the EU from making them tax Apple.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:46:09 JST Aral Balkan

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     • katzenberger

     @katzenberger Or, more optimistically, because they hadn’t heard.

   • katzenberger (katzenberger@mastodon.de)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:46:10 JST katzenberger

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     @aral

     In a way, you're too optimistic. I believe that what kept many people from signing was not the effort, but rather the belief that they're simply not wealthy YET (and don't deserve to be, should they not be able to make it, on their own).

   • Len (len@nyan.network)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:57:08 JST Len

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     • Seb Molines
     @aral @clafou I haven't seen much organising over here, either. I'd hazard a guess that a lot of the numbers come down to which countries had political parties that actually did something with this.
     
     Like I only saw that this was a thing because of people here, and none of them were Dutch political activists or affiliated with any party. IRL it was crickets. Maybe there was something in the bigger cities but then I'd expect way more signatures than there are.