Girino Vey! on Nostr: The irony is perfect. Bernie Sanders has spent decades railing against millionaires ...
The irony is perfect.
Bernie Sanders has spent decades railing against millionaires and billionaires, capitalism, and corporate greed. He's written books criticizing wealth accumulation. He's campaigned on redistributing other people's money.
And he became a millionaire doing it.
Not by starting a business. Not by creating jobs. Not by building something people voluntarily pay for. By selling books and speeches about how capitalism is broken, to an audience within a capitalist system wealthy enough to buy them.
The cartoon nails it: "How to Make Millions Selling Socialism to Idiots.
The system they condemn is the only reason they can profit from condemning it. In an actual socialist economy, there's no book tour.
No merch. No personal brand. The state controls production and decides who gets what.
Capitalism allows you to get rich criticizing capitalism. Socialism doesn't even let you criticize socialism.
The grift only works in the system they claim to oppose.
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1409718237854099 Published at
2026-03-21 14:22:08 UTCEvent JSON
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