US President Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation to deliver stark warnings about an “oligarchy” of ultra-wealthy individuals and a “tech-industrial complex” that infringes on Americans’ rights and threatens the future of democracy in the nation.

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    3 months ago

    The whole speech was here’s everything I was aware of but didn’t address

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      3 months ago

      Well, you see, it was only a problem for him when it turned against him. When he actively supported it his entire career it was the obvious and natural order of things

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      3 months ago

      This was Biden announcing to his rich donors that he followed through on his promise that “nothing will fundamentally change”

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    3 months ago

    If Biden really was worried about democracy he had 6 months of Roberts approved blanket immunity to actually do something about it.

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        He’s only got a couple of years left, he could just live off an advance on a memoir if he was broke (which he isn’t).

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      3 months ago

      Yep go Luigi on all those CEOs with that immunity.

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    3 months ago

    Shame he didn’t do anything about it while he had the chance. What is it with us presidents and doing nothing about the important issues, and only bringing them up on their last day.

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      3 months ago

      If you fix a problem, you can’t campaign on it.

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      Just a heavily self propagandized corporate dictatorship, doing corporate dictatorship things, because it’s a corporate dictatorship.

      No politician can topple the power of hundreds of corporations, and the armies they employ, backed by trillions of dollars in capital… no matter how hard they want to, even if they wanted to. All they can do is virtue signal.

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    Oh, you mean the oligarchy that put Trump in the office the first time? The one that put you in the office after Trump completely fucked up the economy? The one that’s been selecting both presidential candidates for the last, oh, I don’t know, five decades? Six? Longer, probably? The one that’s been crushing the spirit of every living person around the world with the promise of a meager subsistence life, and that’s if they like you or you’re convenient to their ends? And they’ll throw you on the pyre of capitalism if it earns them a single cent more? That oligarchy?

    Yeah, sure. Thanks for giving it the old college try, Joe.

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    And by his lack of action, let them in. ‘Sleepy Joe’ seems rather an apt moniker, although not for the Mango Mussolini’s reasons.