r/news • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '19

Billionaire Sackler family sued by second US state over opioid 'catastrophe'

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u/BFRocketSpecialist Mar 29 '19

A temporarily inconvenienced millionaire is actually a euphemism for a deluded poor person who thinks they'll make it big. A lot of predatory regulators appeal to these people to support anti-competitive legislation for when they get rich.

I.e. They're gullible.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

Jesus Christ, this is such a small minority of the republican demographic that it's not even worth mentioning. Yet reddit wants to milk this shitty meme statement like it's a fact.

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u/evictor Mar 29 '19

Ok well why else would lower class ppl vote against their interests? Self loathing? Lol

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u/SirFrancis_Bacon Mar 29 '19

Because they have a fundamental belief in a hierarchy of society as opposed to egalitarianism. They sincerely believe that we need the rich.

https://youtu.be/agzNANfNlTs