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    1. Mikeal Rogers‏ @mikeal 26 Jan 2019

      Mikeal Rogers Retweeted Paul Graham

      It's only "class warfare" when the rich are the target. Since the 1980's the wealth divide has increased, the rich got richer, working people and the poor have been losing, but that's not "class warfare."https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1089194158961684480 …

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      Paul GrahamVerified account @paulg
      Disgusted by the Republicans' adventures in culture war, the Democrats now propose to give us... class war. Hard to say which the historical precedents are worse for. The 20th century was basically a hard-fought tie in that respect.
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      4 replies 18 retweets 98 likes
    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 27 Jan 2019
      Replying to @mikeal

      No, it's class warfare when any group is a deliberate target: when harming that group is the starting point for conversations about fiscal policy. Which we are starting to see now from Democratic candidates.

      31 replies 2 retweets 145 likes
    3. Jeff Atwood‏Verified account @codinghorror 27 Jan 2019
      Replying to @paulg @mikeal

      "harming" by increasing taxes on the ultra-wealthy? How is that harm by any rational definition? Taxes increase the public good: build schools, roads, pay for policemen/firefighters, etc.

      8 replies 5 retweets 115 likes
    4. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 27 Jan 2019
      Replying to @codinghorror @mikeal

      The Republicans could equally claim that "secure borders" don't harm anyone. But when Democratic candidates start naming individual people they want to tax in order to excite their supporters, it's no different from Republicans naming individual immigrants they want to deport.

      8 replies 2 retweets 24 likes
    5. iainkennedy‏ @iainkennedy 27 Jan 2019
      Replying to @paulg @codinghorror @mikeal

      You are equating being barred entry to the country to escape persecution with being taxed more after your first $10mm in annual income. You may have lost your mind.

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 27 Jan 2019
      Replying to @iainkennedy @codinghorror @mikeal

      No, I'm not equating deportation with taxation. I'm equating the political tactic of stoking partisan feeling by naming individuals you want to tax with the political tactic of stoking partisan feeling by naming individuals you want to deport.

      8:47 AM - 27 Jan 2019
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        2. iainkennedy‏ @iainkennedy 27 Jan 2019
          Replying to @paulg @codinghorror @mikeal

          That’s a legitimate argument. I don’t buy the equivalence though, because the language used is so different, and what we are talking about is messaging (to respective bases). When Democrats begin referring to named billionaires as disease-spreading vermin, I’ll check back.

          2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Mikeal Rogers‏ @mikeal 27 Jan 2019
          Replying to @iainkennedy @paulg @codinghorror

          The precise language was "killers and rapists."

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Dray Mae‏ @colordwarf 27 Jan 2019
          Replying to @paulg @iainkennedy and

          There is a class warfare and the Democrats have made it appealing to go after the wealthy and demonized them as an outgroup similar to how the GOP has done to illegals and to the extreme comparison Mccarthyism. Have to demonize someone for populism to work. Ask hitler or Mao

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        3. Dray Mae‏ @colordwarf 27 Jan 2019
          Replying to @colordwarf @paulg and

          I wish we could go back a few decades to a time when the outgroup was not a part of this country or to something less tangible like climate change

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