• ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    I wonder how quickly will the US progress from Elon Musk prancing around on stage to Trump Jack Ma-ing him, or if Bloomberg will commit suicide by six shots to the back of the head.

    The golden age of the US oligarchy has been this past period. Under fascism, the causal relationship between having power and money reverses.

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      4 hours ago

      WDYM, Hitler was pretty friendly with German oligarchy. No suiciding them or something, their relationships were pretty chill, having fun together, going to countryside, going to each other with families, having coffee.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        6 hours ago

        Look at Russia’s oligarchs. Hell, look at Hungary.

        There was this one wealthy guy bankrolling Orbán’s campaigns, one of the wealthiest people in Hungary. He got into an argument with Orbán publicly. Today he’s neither wealthy, nor living in Hungary.

        The people will not turn on rich people. I’m saying rich people are used to be controlling politics, but in a Russian style system, rich people are controlled BY politics, not the other way around.

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          He’s still alive and no longer in hungary? so like rich people might move to their vacation estate for a year or two? this is just ordinary rich people stuff except instead of doing it for a tax cut they’re doing it because they publicly disagreed. Its theater. The whole point is to protect the money piles. It took russia like 20 years to start fussing about rich people that left the country

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            6 hours ago

            Imagine Murdoch arguing with Trump, trying to bankroll another party to rein him in, with it ending in him selling all his news outlets and retiring.

            The point is that money doesn’t get you political power in this system.

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      7 hours ago

      It depends if Vance can place a rollerskate at the top of the White House steps before that happens.