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#oligarchy

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DoomsdaysCW

Ummmm... Makes me *almost* wish for a #CarringtonEvent. smh

The dystopian "#FreedomCities" dream fueling #ElonMusk's destruction

Tech's plans for #BillionaireRule expose why Musk wants to end government by the people

By Amanda Marcotte
Senior Writer
Published March 17, 2025

"In our cynical times, most people are familiar enough with doublespeak to understand that anything called a 'freedom city' is likely to be the opposite. It's a sign of the delusional self-confidence in their own mendacious powers that the tech oligarchs who are financing this idiotic idea insist on going with that branding anyway. Investigative reporters Vittoria Elliott and Caroline Haskins published an in-depth report on this scheme for Wired earlier this month. What immediately becomes clear is that what the Silicon Valley billionaire class considers 'freedom cities' is simply neo-feudalism, a plan to end the concept of citizenship and make every working person a serf whose entire life is controlled by the whims of their boss."

salon.com/2025/03/17/the-dysto
#PrepareToBeASerf #NeoFeudalism #Dystopia #DOGE #BadDOGE #USPol #TechBros #TechOligarchs #Oligarchy
#BellRiots anyone? Anyone?

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janhoglund

Trump arrived in the Oval Office at a moment when levels of inequality in the United States approached those of Russia. Wealth and income in the United States had not been so unevenly distributed between the top 0.1% and the rest of the population since 1929, the year before the Great Depression.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)
#trump #oligarchy

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Marcus Jenkins

It seems that the method in the madness of the current US government is this. Crash the stock market and fire all the public workers. Then the billionaires can buy all the stocks at bargain prices and build environmentally disastrous industries with as few employees and as much AI and robots as possible. 99% of US Americans will live in poverty and ill-health.

#Project2025#Trump#SpaceKaren
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janhoglund

In the 1990s, Trump Tower was one of only two buildings in New York City to allow anonymous purchases of apartment units, an opportunity that the Russian mob quickly exploited. Wherever anonymous real estate purchases were allowed, Russians bought and sold apartments… These practices…consolidated the Russian oligarchy…and allowed Donald Trump to claim to be a “a VERY successful businessman.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom
#oligarchy #putin #russia #usa #trump

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janhoglund

In June 2016, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., and Paul Manafort met with Russians in Trump Tower to consider Russian offers to hurt the Clinton campaign. One of the intermediaries was Ike Kaveladze… Kaveladze set up anonymous companies in Delaware (at least two thousand). … In Delaware, 285,000 distinct entities were registered at a single physical address.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)
#kushner #trump #manafort #kaveladze #usa #russia #oligarchy

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janhoglund

In the early 2010s…the U.S. Supreme Court took two important decisions that shifted the United States towards authoritarianism. In 2010, it ruled that money talked: that corporations were individuals, and their campaign spending was free speech… This granted…companies…the right…to try to buy elections. It also prepared the way for Trump to claim…that in an American oligarchy Americans could only be safe if they elected their own oligarch…
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom
#trump #oligarchy

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The_Caretaker

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes
The US government pays Core Civic, a privately owned prison corporation, over $4,300 a month to keep ICE detainees. A disabled veteran with a 100% disability rating gets paid about $4,100 a month. It would only cost about $1000 to send most of the ICE detainees back to their country of origin on a commercial flight. The government could get a discount by buying in bulk. But the oligarchs who own the prisons wouldn't get all that tax money. #Oligarchy #PoliceState #Anarchism

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JADe (he, him)

Ziggy is right !

Tired of trusting your health to a system that always prioritizes profit ?

Watch this amazing TedX talk by Rachel Knox on the #ENDOCANNABINOIDSYSTEM to find out how right Ziggy is.

TED flagged it because she was brave enough to name old american #oligarchs who wrote cannabis out of medicine books!

youtu.be/oJbOQ9P2NYQ?feature=s

#memercredi #medicalcannabis
#cannabismedicinal #weed #thc
#cbd #marijuana #marihuana #endocannabiniode #healer
#ImmuneDysfunction #pain #chronicillness #ptsd #thca #depression #insomnia #healthscience #medicinalpsychedelics #viernesdememes #herbalism
#oligarchy #solarpunk #regenerativemedicine

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Nonilex

#Musk Seeks to Put $100M Directly Into #Trump *Political Operation*

#ElonMusk has signaled he wants to make donations not just to his own #superPAC, …but to an outside entity.

It is unheard-of for a WH staffer, even one w/*part-time* status, to make such large contributions to support the agenda of the boss. But there has never been someone in the direct employ of an admin like Musk, the world’s richest person, who is leading Trump’s #DOGE.

#law #democracy #oligarchy
nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/poli

Elon Musk and President Trump touring different models of Tesla cars on the driveway of the White House’s South Lawn on Tuesday.
The New York Times · Elon Musk Seeks to Put $100 Million Into Trump Political OperationBy Theodore Schleifer
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aburtch

I really have to stop harping on this but look at this shit. As long as Democrats do what their Wall Street donors want (and they always do) nothing will change.

They have no plans to be an opposition party because their funders are all A-OK with all the deregulation, money laundering, crypto scams, and massive tax cuts for the rich at the expense of everyone else.

#kleptocracy #oligarchy #TaxTheRich universeodon.com/@cryptadamist

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Universeodon Social Media⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ (@cryptadamist@universeodon.com)Attached: 2 images No less than 76 #Democrats just voted with Republicans to overturn the #IRS's "defi broker rule" which would have required crypto firms like #MarcAndreessen's #Uniswap to collect information on their users and in so doing discourage the use of these platforms for #moneylaundering by criminals and rogue nuclear states (#NorthKorea *loves* Uniswap) and by the very wealthy to avoid paying #taxes. The new wave of #memecoin scams like #TrumpCoin are also all facilitated/perpetrated by these decentralized trading platforms. If any of these people are your representative you should do what you can to make sure they are primaried because they are not representing your interests. At a minimum call them and yell at them (this works better than most people think!) The corruption of the US government by #crypto bros is extremely bipartisan. * Full roll call of vote: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202571 #uspol #defi #DOGE #broligarchs #SEC #CFPB #DNC #Dems #congress #house #law #tax #corruption #taxation
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