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@xtaldave The only reason why the Culture War exists in the first place is to distract from the Class War. #EatTheRich
Why the hell not, Alice?
@xtaldave The only reason why the Culture War exists in the first place is to distract from the Class War. #EatTheRich
#MarkZuckerberg has bought #BurntJacketMountain near #MooseheadLake and has cordoned it off (folks have been able to hike on it since forever).
Mystery Fuels Unease in #Maine Woods: Who Bought Burnt Jacket Mountain
An anonymous new owner fenced off beloved trails and put up surveillance cameras in a region with a long tradition of allowing public access on private land.
By Jenna Russell and Heather Knight
Visuals by Sophie Park
Jenna Russell reported from Beaver Cove, Maine, and Heather Knight from San Francisco.
Nov. 15, 2025
Excerpt: "Soon enough, though, a woman who used to work in Greenville’s town office said she had the answer and posted it on Facebook: The new owner of the mountain was Mark Zuckerberg.
The billionaire founder of Facebook had spent time in the Maine woods before. In 2017, for their fifth wedding anniversary, Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, had traveled not to Aspen or Cabo, but to #BangorME and #MillinocketME, where they hiked on the Appalachian Trail and met with workers who had lost their jobs when local paper mills shut down."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/mystery-maine-burnt-jacket-mountain.html
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VWJNn
#BernieSanders Lays Out Plan to Fight #Oligarchy as Wealth of Top #Billionaires Passes $10 Trillion
"If there was ever a moment when #progressives needed to communicate our vision to the people of our country, this is that time," wrote Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Despair is not an option."
Jake Johnson
Dec 31, 2024
"A Bloomberg analysis of billionaire wealth published Tuesday found that the combined fortunes of the 500 richest people on the planet surpassed $10 trillion this year, a finding that came shortly after U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders issued an urgent call to action to prevent the emergence of 'an oligarchic and authoritarian society.'
"The new analysis notes that the world's top 500 billionaires 'got vastly richer' this year with the help of "an indomitable rally in U.S. technology stocks."
"Just eight billionaires— #ElonMusk, #MarkZuckerberg, #JensenHuang, #LarryEllison, #JeffBezos, #MichaelDell, #LarryPage, and #SergeyBrin—added more than $600 billion to their collective wealth in 2024 and accounted for 43% of the $1.5 trillion increase in net worth among the world's 500 richest people, according to Bloomberg.
"'But it was Musk—the so-called 'first buddy' of President-elect Donald Trump after unprecedented support for his reelection campaign—who dominated the world's wealthiest in 2024,' Bloomberg observed, adding that Trump himself also saw his fortune surge to a record high this year, 'boosted by the performance of his majority stake in Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.'
"Musk's use of his enormous fortune to influence the U.S. political system—including via his purchase of one of the world's largest social media platforms and donations to Trump's 2024 campaign—amplified existing concerns about the corrosive impact of massive wealth concentration on democracy.
"And #WealthInequality in the U.S. could soon get worse, with Trump and the incoming Republican-controlled Congress set to pursue another round of tax cuts for the #UltraRich and large #corporations."
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-billionaire-wealth
#TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #Oligarchy #CorporateColonialism #Corporatocracy #Authoritarianism #TechBros #CapitalismMustDie
#MarkZuckerberg has bought #BurntJacketMountain near #MooseheadLake and has cordoned it off (folks have been able to hike on it since forever).
Mystery Fuels Unease in #Maine Woods: Who Bought Burnt Jacket Mountain
An anonymous new owner fenced off beloved trails and put up surveillance cameras in a region with a long tradition of allowing public access on private land.
By Jenna Russell and Heather Knight
Visuals by Sophie Park
Jenna Russell reported from Beaver Cove, Maine, and Heather Knight from San Francisco.
Nov. 15, 2025
Excerpt: "Soon enough, though, a woman who used to work in Greenville’s town office said she had the answer and posted it on Facebook: The new owner of the mountain was Mark Zuckerberg.
The billionaire founder of Facebook had spent time in the Maine woods before. In 2017, for their fifth wedding anniversary, Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, had traveled not to Aspen or Cabo, but to #BangorME and #MillinocketME, where they hiked on the Appalachian Trail and met with workers who had lost their jobs when local paper mills shut down."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/mystery-maine-burnt-jacket-mountain.html
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VWJNn
The President Is Perfectly Fine If You Starve
The message behind the government shutdown is loud and clear: Hunger is acceptable collateral damage in service of Trump’s agenda.
By Alain Stephens
"For the first time in modern American history, its leader is intentionally starving his own people."
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/07/government-shutdown-snap-trump-hunger/
#StarveThePoor #LetThemEatCake
#GuillotineTime #SNAPCuts #TrumpSucks #EatTheRich #HungerGames
The President Is Perfectly Fine If You Starve
The message behind the government shutdown is loud and clear: Hunger is acceptable collateral damage in service of Trump’s agenda.
By Alain Stephens
"For the first time in modern American history, its leader is intentionally starving his own people."
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/07/government-shutdown-snap-trump-hunger/
#StarveThePoor #LetThemEatCake
#GuillotineTime #SNAPCuts #TrumpSucks #EatTheRich #HungerGames
„Inzwischen gehen 872.000 Deutsche keiner geregelten Erwerbstätigkeit mehr nach, sondern leben von Dividenden, Gewinnausschüttungen oder Mieteinnahmen.“
The good life for everybody is cheaper than morbid wealth for one percent.
The good life for everybody is cheaper than morbid wealth for one percent.
„Inzwischen gehen 872.000 Deutsche keiner geregelten Erwerbstätigkeit mehr nach, sondern leben von Dividenden, Gewinnausschüttungen oder Mieteinnahmen.“
The next time someone tells you that "we don't have money for pensions", remember this report about the tax of the elite:
"Wealth inequality is evident worldwide, including in #Europe. As of early 2025, the wealthiest 5% of the population in the eurozone controlled 45% of net household wealth, while the top 10% held 57.4%, according to the European Central Bank (#ECB).
This concentration of wealth keeps the debate over wealth taxes at the centre of discussions in many countries. Most recently, French billionaire Bernard Arnault strongly opposed a proposed 2% levy on citizens with assets over €100 million, calling it “an offensive that is deadly for our economy”.
Over the past three decades, several countries have repealed individual wealth taxes. The number of #OECD members levying such taxes fell from 12 in 1990 to just 4 in 2017. They are European countries: #Austria (1994), #Denmark (1997), #Germany (1997), the #Netherlands (2001), #Finland, #Iceland, and #Luxembourg (all in 2006), and #Sweden (2007)."
https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/09/29/wealth-taxes-in-europe-who-collects-them-and-how-much-do-they-raise
#EatTheRich #classwar #classgap #bourgeoisie
The next time someone tells you that "we don't have money for pensions", remember this report about the tax of the elite:
"Wealth inequality is evident worldwide, including in #Europe. As of early 2025, the wealthiest 5% of the population in the eurozone controlled 45% of net household wealth, while the top 10% held 57.4%, according to the European Central Bank (#ECB).
This concentration of wealth keeps the debate over wealth taxes at the centre of discussions in many countries. Most recently, French billionaire Bernard Arnault strongly opposed a proposed 2% levy on citizens with assets over €100 million, calling it “an offensive that is deadly for our economy”.
Over the past three decades, several countries have repealed individual wealth taxes. The number of #OECD members levying such taxes fell from 12 in 1990 to just 4 in 2017. They are European countries: #Austria (1994), #Denmark (1997), #Germany (1997), the #Netherlands (2001), #Finland, #Iceland, and #Luxembourg (all in 2006), and #Sweden (2007)."
https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/09/29/wealth-taxes-in-europe-who-collects-them-and-how-much-do-they-raise
#EatTheRich #classwar #classgap #bourgeoisie
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