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"When authoritarianism is on rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards."
Bradley Whitford
#BigTech #Oligarchy #Greed #FarRight #Authoritarianism #Cowardice #Meta #X #Amazon #Google
"When authoritarianism is on rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards."
Bradley Whitford
#BigTech #Oligarchy #Greed #FarRight #Authoritarianism #Cowardice #Meta #X #Amazon #Google
☢️ Trump oligarch will own Warner Bros after Netflix declines to raise its offer.
#warnerbros #netflix #paramount #mediaconsolidation #oligarchy
☢️ Trump oligarch will own Warner Bros after Netflix declines to raise its offer.
#warnerbros #netflix #paramount #mediaconsolidation #oligarchy
@GrimmReality @blogdiva
This ditty by Jesse Welles is a year old, but evergreen.
https://youtu.be/8naswSc8yMk
🎵 When I was just a boy, my momma asked me this
She said "Son, what you wanna be when you grow up?"
I said, "A big philanthropist"
With data as my oil and illness as my business
With guns as my retirement and war as my mistress
I'm gonna be an oligarch with a whole bunch of rockets
I'd keep them two sides fighting, and I'd empty both of their pockets
And if I got bored or money weary
I'd try my hand in dabbling in social engineeringAnd I'm gonna be a billionaire with a big foundation
We used to rule in shadows, but I'd come right out and I'd rule the nation
I'm gonna do all my own laundry in a third-world nation-state
Experiment with the locals like some philanthropic saintAnd I'd never make a cure, no, I'd get ya a trеatment plan
You can die in slow installments, and I'll bleed you whilе I can
And I'll travel around the planet in a big ol' mystery jet
What I did would be my business, and what you did, I would collect
If I were a philanthropist just running around
Philanthropistin', not a whole lot of help, just for myself
But I gotta make it look convincing! 🎵
Yup. And it's just suuuuuch a weird fascination/obsession of pallid cloistered posh dimwits, to remove yourself wholly from humanity whose most elemental problems you do not understand or empathize with - whilst ideologically campaigning against empathy - and YET still try to feign being a human being and, thus, a viable leader of human beings with your shitty rootless trash ruminations.
Like this is the simplest equation of YOU = NOT THAT. The simplest most basic thing and the super-smartest people in ALL the world to a fucking man have no sense of it.
@GrimmReality @blogdiva
This ditty by Jesse Welles is a year old, but evergreen.
https://youtu.be/8naswSc8yMk
🎵 When I was just a boy, my momma asked me this
She said "Son, what you wanna be when you grow up?"
I said, "A big philanthropist"
With data as my oil and illness as my business
With guns as my retirement and war as my mistress
I'm gonna be an oligarch with a whole bunch of rockets
I'd keep them two sides fighting, and I'd empty both of their pockets
And if I got bored or money weary
I'd try my hand in dabbling in social engineeringAnd I'm gonna be a billionaire with a big foundation
We used to rule in shadows, but I'd come right out and I'd rule the nation
I'm gonna do all my own laundry in a third-world nation-state
Experiment with the locals like some philanthropic saintAnd I'd never make a cure, no, I'd get ya a trеatment plan
You can die in slow installments, and I'll bleed you whilе I can
And I'll travel around the planet in a big ol' mystery jet
What I did would be my business, and what you did, I would collect
If I were a philanthropist just running around
Philanthropistin', not a whole lot of help, just for myself
But I gotta make it look convincing! 🎵
@inquiline @oldbookillustrations
Reminds me of Goya's Capricho #42: Tú que no puedes ...
i like how the donkey is wearing the kid's blazer and/or the kid is wearing the donkey's pants
@inquiline @oldbookillustrations
Reminds me of Goya's Capricho #42: Tú que no puedes ...
Futurism: CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant
"You went to an elite school, and you studied philosophy; hopefully you have some other skill."
Robert Reich has advice for Governors Hochul and Newsom of New York and California: if you're worrying that the super-rich will leave your states if taxes on them are raised, think again. He asks,
"Is California really that much worse for losing Thiel, Musk, and Zuckerberg?"
#EconomicElites #wealth #oligarchy #democracy
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/memo-to-kathy-hochul-and-gavin-newsom
"Maybe raising taxes on the super-rich not only provides critically-needed tax revenue but also acts as a kind of disinfectant, purging a city or state of a few of its most noxious and socially-irresponsible inhabitants. Another reason to do so!"
Robert Reich has advice for Governors Hochul and Newsom of New York and California: if you're worrying that the super-rich will leave your states if taxes on them are raised, think again. He asks,
"Is California really that much worse for losing Thiel, Musk, and Zuckerberg?"
#EconomicElites #wealth #oligarchy #democracy
/3
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/memo-to-kathy-hochul-and-gavin-newsom
"Maybe raising taxes on the super-rich not only provides critically-needed tax revenue but also acts as a kind of disinfectant, purging a city or state of a few of its most noxious and socially-irresponsible inhabitants. Another reason to do so!"
