From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:39:03 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
      
   >On 2/19/2026 7:40 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:35:08 +0000, Julian    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> a union thug and his cabal of communist academics have awoken a sleeping   
   >>> giant: behold, your first look at the billionaire counterattack in the   
   >>> war for California’s future   
   >>   
   >> There you have it.   
   > >   
   >Key words: Economic Impact   
   > >   
   > > What happened to the labor movement?   
   > >   
   >Not sure you've thought this through.   
   > >   
   > > They are now thugs and a cabal of communist academics.>   
   >Critics, argue it could negatively impact working people and that the   
   >top 1% already pay nearly half of the state's income taxes.   
      
   And so it is that the labor movement has become thugs and a cabal of   
   communist academics.  Nah, you can't fool me with that shit.   
      
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> A few weeks back, I asked 21 California billionaires targeted by the   
   >>> Service Employees International Union’s proposed wealth tax if they   
   >>> planned to fight the ballot proposition, move, or some mysterious third   
   >>> thing. Sentiment was darker than I anticipated. Almost everyone I spoke   
   >>> with, including the California maximalists, was planning an exit. While   
   >>> the architects of the ballot prop insisted “wealth flight” would never   
   >>> happen — there was research, we were told; trust the experts!, the   
   >>> commies cried — it was clear by the end of January they were not only   
   >>> wrong about this, but about pretty much everything. To date, at least   
   >>> half the wealth targeted by the SEIU’s Dave Regan and his cabal of   
   >>> Marxist academics has moved from California, the SEIU has alienated the   
   >>> governor, the teacher’s union (from what I’ve repeatedly heard), and   
   >>> most center-left organizations in the state, and they’ve radicalized   
   >>> even center left billionaires against special interests to a degree I’ve   
   >>> never before seen. To put this in perspective, I know a billionaire tech   
   >>> founder who supported Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s infamous pro-crime   
   >>> District Attorney, who is now prepared for war with every union in the   
   >>> state.   
   >>>   
   >>> But will a few angry billionaires be enough to avert catastrophe?   
   >>   
   >> Certainly not.  We need a million billionaires in the street crying   
   >> mayhem.   
   >>   
   >>> https://www.piratewires.com/p/wealth-tax-counterstrike   
   --   
   Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain   
   Don't get political with me young man   
   or I'll tie you to a railroad track and   
   <<>> to <<>>   
   Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?   
   dares: Ned   
   does not dare: Julian  shrinks in horror and warns others away   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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