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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.
What an absolute treasure Robert and Sam Reich are.
Last stage democracy
Plus late stage capitalism.
Late stage humanity
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.
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.
Don’t wait until your version of Trump gets elected. Start organizing now.
No worries, he already has been elected last year!
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And yet the “blame everything on immigrants” strategy seems to work quite well here too.
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I see you’re already on the right track to a fascistic ideology. Way to prove me right.
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You are literally parroting the talking points of fascists, though?
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People don’t want to leave their homes to begin with, only to face people like you. Make sure you don’t vote for politicians who promote wars or instability if you don’t want anymore refugees. Your right wing politicians are pro-Israel so they will be causing more refugees to move to Europe and they probably don’t realize it.
far less trusts politicians
crazy thing is… that is the exact reason why trump is winning in the States. Someone comes along, crass, rude, claiming to be a layman and the people here ate that up, thinking “now here is a person like us, not like the established politician class” and despite the rhetoric, or due to it, along with suppression and disinformation, he got elected.
Tbf a bunch of racist, misogynist, homophobic, idiots saw a racist, misogynist, homophobic, idiot and went “he just like me fr.” And they are probably right about that.
Whoever thinks Trump is ‘people like us’ can drown in piss
How can someone think a spoiled rich boy is one of the working class?
Eroding education seems to work for those shitheads…
Just wait a bit. It’ll crack sooner or later.
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.
yes for him the USA is just a high return investment and livelihoods of the US citizens are just expandibles.
Speedrunning the decline and fall of the Roman empire.
We’re already speedrunning climate-based societal collapse, so there’s not really much time to slow walk these things.
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.
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.
To be fair, a couple of them already tried.
No, they love the boot on their face, as long as someone they hate also has a boot on their face.
Looks like it’s time for the left to start collecting guns and trigger the “wait, not like that!” response from the republicans.
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.
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.
Turns out it really is all a big club and we didn’t get invited.
Carlin had it right 30 years ago
The term is crony capitalism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalismJust capitalism taken to the logical conclusion. This term implies there’s some form of capitalism in which this doesn’t happen. There is not.
I guess technically he spent $44.13 billion
Okay but… blaming the other side gets tiring after a few decades. When will we blame those who allowed it, and moreover how much did Kamala Harris spend by comparison?
If it’s still too raw and early for such, please just ignore me. I’m still spinning, like all of us, and seeing desperately for some reasoning to help make sense of it all.
Its not about the amount of money that was spent, its about the obvious conflict of interest between the individuals private interests, and the government controlling how much tax payers funds are being funnelled into their private interests.
Have the dems fucked around and found out? Sure, but don’t compare a failure to save a bad status quo (D) with a concerted effort to rebuild the status quo in a way that exclusively benefits them ®
Well said.
What do the campaign expenditures of Kamala Harris have to do with how much Elon Musk paid as what boils down to a bribe to Trump?
