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Corruption (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 hours ago

If the numbers are true it costed him less than 0.1% of his wealth which is surprising how little it takes. Would you spend 0.1% of your wealth to elect a President and gain a government post that will bring you more wealth? Would you spend 1% of your wealth to become insanely rich? 10%?

In the society where power is measured by wealth ultra rich should not exist. Or better such society should not exist.

Also Musk wasn't even the biggest donor. And Harris was okay with this whole thing, she also received enormous donations. Who was against ultra rich? Bernie Sanders. No wonder he was sacked despite popular support.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 hours ago

What an absolute treasure Robert and Sam Reich are.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Last stage democracy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Plus late stage capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Late stage humanity

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

We don't need to be such downers about it.

Let's just celebrate this as the age of facilitating future dolphin supremacy!

We sucked hard, I have faith that they can do better because I can't really imagine how a sapient species could find a way to do even worse.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

If you live in Europe and think your democratic system is resistant to these things: it's not.

Don't wait until your version of Trump gets elected. Start organizing now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Don't wait until your version of Trump gets elected. Start organizing now.

No worries, he already has been elected last year!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

yes for him the USA is just a high return investment and livelihoods of the US citizens are just expandibles.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 8 hours ago

This is fascism 101.

Fascism is at least as much an economic system as a political one, or more precisely, it's more like an economic system hiding behind a political system.

And the way the economic system works is very simple - private ownership of the means of production combined with an overt and institutionalized revolving door between business and government, so that the end result is plutocratic oligarchy.

Basically, it's taking the system that already existed in the US, by which the wealthy bought access to political power mostly surreptitiously and nominally illegally unless they followed specific restrictions, and legitimizes and formalizes and institutionalizes it and moves it right out into the open.

And behind all of the white supremacist and christian nationalist and reactionary conservative rhetoric, this was always the real goal.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Speedrunning the decline and fall of the Roman empire.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

We're already speedrunning climate-based societal collapse, so there's not really much time to slow walk these things.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago

He also spent 44 billion buying twitter to disrupt and control the conversations happening there as part of his efforts, and now the the government essentially has a data mining tool and propaganda machine without actually 'owning' it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Any of those 2a weirdos gonna show us what 2a is for or not?

I see a lot of domestic enemies around and suddenly the obese, insanely loud dipshits aren't making a peep.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

To be fair, a couple of them already tried.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

No, they love the boot on their face, as long as someone they hate also has a boot on their face.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Looks like it's time for the left to start collecting guns and trigger the "wait, not like that!" response from the republicans.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

As a 2A advocate, I've recently considered buying my first gun. I don't own one mostly because I have young kids and I don't want to risk them playing with it and getting hurt, but there have also been a some incidents where people got shot due to road rage, and it would be nice to have an option to defend myself.

That said, regardless of how many or what kinds of guns I end up owning, there's no way I'm using them against the government, there's zero chance that ends well for anyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

You can't have a democracy if you can't hold it accountable. Violence is the last option, of course. But it must be an option in the face of the threat of more violence. Fascists will always exploit this weakness in liberalism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Turns out it really is all a big club and we didn't get invited.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

Carlin had it right 30 years ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The term is crony capitalism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

Just capitalism taken to the logical conclusion. This term implies there's some form of capitalism in which this doesn't happen. There is not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

I guess technically he spent $44.13 billion