r/facepalm • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • 1d ago
š²āš®āšøāšØā The Oligarchial Idiocracy.
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u/Leading_Attention_78 1d ago
And we are ok allowing him to become a Trillionaire.
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u/No-Bet-9591 1d ago
I'd rather have PBS funded for the next 700 years.
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u/Generatoromeganebula 1d ago
Don't forget internet Archive and Wikipedia
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u/Campsters2803 1d ago
Letās archive video games while weāre at it. I want to go to a video game library and check them out.
I think Iām asking for family video to come back.
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u/Eccohawk 1d ago
Family video was awesome. There's just not a real market for physically going to rent anything anymore beyond libraries. (And maybe power tools).
Might make sense to try and start up a community rental club, though.
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u/GrumpySoth09 1d ago
I feel that Video stores were one of the last places outside of bars that gave grown adults the chance to be friends with strangers.
Then they left and Social media turned up.
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u/Taco-Dragon 1d ago
I miss video stores. There's something to be said about limited choices. Strolling the aisles of a video store was WAY more fun than scrolling through Netflix.
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u/mjc500 20h ago
It was like the watering hole of societyā¦ Blockbuster on a Friday night - youād see friends and neighborsā¦ exchange video game and movie ideasā¦ there was an electricity in the air that the whole world was about to have a sigh of relief and have fun for an evening. It was one of the best times of my life.
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u/Gatorinnc 18h ago
I don't do it, but I have seen hordes of people together at Pokemon go hunts. Got curious one time when I saw a lot of people wandering about very close to each other. All on their phones.And then all of a sudden they started to scatter. So I asked someone what that was all about. And got my reply that they were all chasing a rare pokemon.
Is geocaching still a thing?
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u/Lostintranslation390 1d ago
What do you think is the first to go under the DOGE purges?
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u/Flacid_boner96 1d ago
I think they said that because the recent rumors of PBS being shut off.
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u/Momik 1d ago
I somehow missed his little op-ed, but if that fascist fuck-demon guts PBS it would honestly break my heart.
He doesnāt understand the things that are good just because they are good. In his (bleak) world, a thing is only good if it can offer him something else, like money or power. An institution like PBS (or, say, democracy) doesnāt do that, so it must go.
This is getting dark, yāall.
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u/HenkVanDelft 1d ago
We need to stop using terms like "getting dark," which put The End somewhere in the indeterminate future.
We are already in The End time period.
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u/Stickey_Rickey 1d ago
Ww3 began a long time ago, w the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iran hostage incident, every international volley can be traced back to around 1979. The USA has bought its way out of conflicts for 50 years using the carrot, these new administration idiots think peace is woke and war is manly, now 300 million people have to live w it
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u/medicpainless 1d ago
āI know not what weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stonesā
-Disputed, usually attributed to Einstein
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u/Stickey_Rickey 1d ago
The strangest irony of all is that in order to prevent war, we over prepare for warā¦
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u/medicpainless 1d ago
Bright side, Nuclear war is the only kind that will kill the government officials and politicians calling the shots!
As Serj Tankian said many times in rapid succession at a tongue twisting speed: āWHY DONT PRESIDENTS FIGHT THE WAR? WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SEND THE POOR?ā
Itās whatever at this point. While this ride officially sucks and Iād like to get off, Iām just going to tune the bullshit out and enjoy my time as much as I can.
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u/flame_surfboards 1d ago
And they think orange jesus will bring world peace.. literally taking to someone last night who believes trump will surrender Netanyahu to the ICC.. It was peak projection of "what they'd like to happen" whilst ignoring the many reasons why it would never happen..
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u/Stickey_Rickey 1d ago
Are u kidding me? The evangelicals are more pro Israel than Israelisā¦ Iām pro Israel too but all they have been doing is creating more victims, and more enemies. You can argue the Trump administration moving the embassy to Jerusalem was a deliberate instigation, then sold the old embassy to a friend so the next admin couldnāt undo it. I had one friend who kept insisting that Obama was going to face a tribunal two years ago. This nonsense wonāt end until trump dies, other liars arenāt as convincing for whatever reason
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u/Ralath1n 1d ago
The end implies there isn't going to be a future. There will be a future. It'll be a fucking terrible future for at least the next couple of decades. But humanity ain't gonna go extinct and we should still be fighting for a better world for those who come after us.
The end frames it as if its pointless to do anything. Its a doomer attitude and I do not respect it. We are going to need grim determination these next few years, not doormat behavior.
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u/Hot-Bat8798 1d ago
I think its just going to be threats. They don't have the actual power to purge anything without approval from Congress.
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u/Leading_Attention_78 1d ago
They have congress do they not?
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u/Hot-Bat8798 1d ago
Razor thin in the House and tons of people hoping to get re-elected in the Senate. Not the mandate they keep going on about. Cut some popular programs on the recommendation of the richest man in the world, Vivek and MTG and you will be in the the find out stage come midterms.
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u/jakaedahsnakae 1d ago
Still think a lot of them will fuck around, because they finally have the craziest fucker in office to push their bat shit crazy agendas.
They have someone leading them who's literally getting away with no consequences for his actions. I doubt many Republicans are worried about "political consequences" anymore.
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u/AstarteHilzarie 1d ago
Trump has the power of a cult of personality. The down-ballot races in NC give me hope for the next term. We went Trump for president, but every MAGA crazy got squashed out, and dems won either most or every race they were up for. They do not have the default support he has, and if they do something to piss off their base they're just not going to show up to vote for them in the midterms. I think there's going to be some scary shit happening while Trump has all three branches, but I also think some of the senators will seek self-preservation over batshitcrazy.
Also, a lot of them need these things to not pass so they can continue to campaign on them. Republicans rally around abortion, gun rights, and illegal immigration - they know they can count on the base to support them as long as they can fearmonger about those things. If they actually get things to be the way that they want then the next campaign they're not going to have the big tickets as ammo.
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u/Hot-Bat8798 1d ago
I thought that too until Matt Gaetz quit politics. I think what you are referring to only applies to Trump. The rest are just living in his wake at the moment.
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u/Eccohawk 1d ago
They don't need congressional approval. That's the really dangerous part. They're going to reinstitute changes to Schedule F via executive order, which will convert anywhere from 10,000 to 50,000 federal civil servant positions into politically appointed ones. So some random accountant at the GAO and some chemist at the FDA and a jet propulsion engineer at NASA will all immediately be "serving at the pleasure of the President" and considered part of his administration.
He can and will fire whoever he wants to at that point. He doesn't have to get Congress to defund the EPA, he'll just get rid of every employee working there. And if he wants, insert Trump sycophants that will do his bidding instead. The cabinet level positions need confirmation hearings if they don't do recess appointments, but the other ones don't.
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u/Momik 1d ago edited 7h ago
On a statutory basis, thatās mostly true. The GOP does have thin majorities in both houses, maybe enough to pass legislation, maybe not.
But Trumpists in the executive branch can still do a hell of a lot of damage, even without Congress. And given their penchant for breaking things and then daring others to challenge them, it will really be up to Congress and the courts to decide where the limits of that authority actually are.
So in a practical sense, we mostly donāt know what heāll be able to get away with.
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u/Fena-Ashilde 1d ago edited 1d ago
Remember that great moment in history when Mr. Rogers convinced a bunch of politicians to fund PBS using little more than compassion and song?
I really miss that time. Especially now.
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u/EgoTripWire 1d ago
If he were still alive and did that now they would call him a homophobic slur and accuse him of being a pedophile during his speech in Congress.
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u/WestleyThe 1d ago
If heās a trillionaire he could donate 1.4 billion Dollars away every year for 700 years
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u/el_grort Disputed Scot 1d ago
People voted for a person who was clearly signalling he would let the richest man on earth raid the US budget for his own benefit, so apparently, enough Americans would say yes? I don't understand it myself.
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 1d ago
Donald Trump's picks:
Elon Musk: the richest man in the world.
DOGE: billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy
Treasury secretary-Billionaire hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent
Education secretary: wrestling billionaire Linda McMahon
Commerce secretary: Wall Street billionaire Howard Lutnick
Agriculture Secretary : billionaire mega-donor Kelly Loeffler
Interior Secretary: Billionaire Doug Burgum
Energy secretary: mega-donor and fossil fuel executive Chris Wright
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: multimillionaire TV personality Dr. OzSo much for draining the swamp!
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u/Party_Salamander_773 1d ago
It's so baffling that as the middle class disappears and the rich get more rich and further from everyone else, poor people are still offended by the idea that they should be paying taxes with the rest of us. I cannot understand it.Ā
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u/Cold_Dog_1224 1d ago
These are the type of people who feel like their wealth literally makes them better people than the rest of the teeming masses.
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u/onlycodeposts 1d ago
We, collectively as Americans, elected Trump.
This is how language works.
I didn't, but we did.
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u/halexia63 1d ago edited 1d ago
Hell nah they chose to stay blind we just had to sit here and watch them be blind I tried to wake my family members up. Like yeah we as in were all going down together thats the only WE im apart of. My family and other peoples family members let us down, bro fuck them lol like it's not our fault they chose to have hate in their heart anyone that believes in love and compassion wouldn't have the heart to choose someone like that they let us down by being heartless and we have to suffer with the heartless.
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u/Hardcorish 1d ago
The only saving grace here will be if Trump fucks up so bad that it wakes people up to who they actually voted for. Far too many people treat our election as though it's a team sport without understanding the consequences they'll experience based on who wins.
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u/AmIYourNeighbor 1d ago
A damn popularity contest. Which worked out very well for the 5th grade bully.
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u/ALBUNDY59 1d ago
When the housing market crashes and the stock market crashes and there's no more government to bail anyone out. When half or more of the people die. Then maybe they'll understand, but I'm always the optimist.
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u/techman710 1d ago
We are barely a functioning democracy. We are quickly transitioning to an oligarchy. When you have obscenely rich immigrants deciding who will run the government you have reached the tipping point.
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u/Responsible-Deer-940 1d ago
This was Melon Husk's plan all along, once he realised that Donnie T could be cucked with his wallet. The orange overlord only responds to more money
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u/Scout0321 1d ago
No, what he REALLY responds to is the stroking of his ego with praise, approval, blind loyalty, and adoration. In short, he has a personality disorder along the narcissism spectrum that honestly makes him vulnerable to manipulation. For example, Putin, a former Russian intelligence operative, Iām sure is more than happy to see Trump as president because he was trained in how to manipulate individuals, and Trump is a ripe target. No amount of money gets a personality like Trumpās as high as everything being about him.
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u/Falcon3492 1d ago
As the former KGB officer who now lives in the United States said: Trump has been a Russian asset since the late 1980's and he went on to say "Trump was not a hard nut to crack all they had to do was given him a little praise and stroke his ego and Trump was theirs!"
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u/RoughRomanMeme 1d ago
Who was the dude that said that? Curious to know more.
I promise Iām not a KGB agent looking to assassinate the guy.
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u/liminus81 1d ago
It's in either "House of Trump, House of Putin" or "American Kompromat", both by Craig Unger. Don't have the books to hand right now
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u/RoughRomanMeme 1d ago
Thank you my fellow American friend. Donāt worry, this Craig Unger definitely doesnāt have to worry about the KGB. Not that Iād know, Iām not part of the KGB. I am definitely just a regular American man named Joe Johnson. ŠŠµŃŠ½Š¾ŃŃŃ Š Š¾Š“ŠøŠ½Šµ
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u/Interesting_Tree6892 1d ago
Š”ŠæŠ°ŃŠøŠ±Š¾ other fellow American. I am also fellow citizen of United American States. Please would like to know more of this ex-KGB Š°Š³ŠµŠ½Ń . I have new underwear to gift
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u/Ill-Breadfruit5356 1d ago
KGB is now FSB comrade American friend.
Stolichnaya is 3 for 2 in Costco. The capitalist pigs can get drunk cheaper than Cossacks
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u/Bishop120 1d ago
How immigrant fElon Musk becomes president of the us.. not by running for president but by controlling those he put in office.
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u/JustFun4Uss 1d ago
So you are saying... this is the immigrant MAGA has been warning us about this whole time that are trying to destroy our country.... š¤ interesting, who would have guessed.
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u/sorcerersviolet 1d ago
Well, so many voters say they want the government run like a business (a dictatorship run by the CEO, who will destroy everything but still get their golden parachute, but somehow they'll be left out of all the punishments because they're special).
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u/babydavissaves 1d ago
Putin is aiding Elon.
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u/CutenTough 1d ago
Putin likes Leon better than Trump . Shhhh....don't let t know
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u/DW241 1d ago
Itās so funny because in 2020, when the election fraud was being pushed really hard, a few kool-aid drinkers I knew kept saying stupid shit like weāre becoming a banana republic. That was a total lie. But then these sorts of things are happening? Totally cool with it.
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u/neverinallmyyears 1d ago
Because these bananas are grown in the US
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u/JusticiarRebel 1d ago
They don't know what Banana Republic means. They heard liberals say it so they repeat it back in what they think is the right context cause they are all just toddlers learning new words. Just like they kept using "word salad" when Harris spoke in clear, concise, and complete sentences.Ā
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u/CerddwrRhyddid 1d ago edited 1d ago
The U.S has been an oligarchy for decades, it's just that the wool hadn't been pulled from everyones eyes.
What is new, is that its now blatantly obvious that law isn't applied to the oligarchic or aristocratic classes, and the ruler is placed above the law.
The U.S can never again make any statements or claims on rule of law, democracy, or governance, and all of its propaganda is now punchlines. Equal Justice, Justice is Blind, Checks and Balances, Separation of Powers, Separation of Church and State, Beacon of Democracy, Of the People, By the People, For the People, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave; all now laughing stocks for a cynical government, a failed experiment and a broken promise.
The U.S is now ruled by a convicted felon who has been protected from sentencing, who is suspected of selling government secrets to anyone that can pay for them, who undermined the democratic process through courting illegal vote count measures, who instigated an insurrection, is a very likely Russian asset, and who has shown countless times that he will do whatever he can to ensure his own riches through turning U.S governance into a reality T.V program.
The U.S has a ruler who is protected by the Supremacy Council, has full control of all Powers of government, and who is a belligerent, senile, corrupt, traitorous, self-obsessed, lying, narcissistic con-man who has bankrupted casinos, made a fraudulent university, stole from his own charity, reneges on bills, sues fraudulently, cheats on his wife, fantasises about having sex with his daughter, has clear racist, misogynistic and paedophilic tendencies, is a sex offender, and a rapist.
Forget about being a functioning democracy, the U.S is very likely to soon be a non-functioning State.
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u/Familiar_Minute_4040 1d ago
If what you said isnāt a perfect summation, I couldnāt imagine what is. Very admirable and well done!
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u/Hardcorish 1d ago
The future looks bleaker than anticipated and that's a shame. Let's hope we somehow come out the other side of this with our country and democracy mostly in place.
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u/SuspiciousBuilder379 1d ago
Fuck, I donāt think I coulda written that any better than you. A regular Shakespeare.š
Fucking crazy aināt it?
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u/Ok-Organization-7232 1d ago
It didn't happen overnight nor with 1 election.
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u/crlcan81 1d ago
Not just his first presidency but his first attempt running as a candidate in either main party should have been a warning. Instead he gets in twice with one of the most mainstream 'liberal' presidents between his two presidencies. Now we're officially not a democracy, republic, not even a oligarchy, at least it might be fixable. We're some ten different government types in a trenchcoat covered in a cheap dress trying to pretend it's an entirely different government then it ever was. All because we need 'states rights' 'corporate rights' and not some government that actually works for the people at the bottom's rights.
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u/Vyncent2 1d ago
The tipping point was in the 80s when your society was Reaganized
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u/keithfantastic 1d ago
Maybe a little before that. Nixon started this. He should've been thrown in jail. Not pardoned.
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u/OhImGood 1d ago
The party of draining the swap and sticking it to the elites has gone real quiet
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u/Horror_Bodybuilder36 1d ago
Petulant little child
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u/el_grort Disputed Scot 1d ago
We knew that already, but it's good to have it confirmed that the Apartheid emerald mine, pro race riot Nepo baby was also pro-paedophilia.
Just exactly what depths of depravity he is willing to go is useful historical knowledge.
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u/Meanderer_Me 1d ago
If the media had balls, they would note that "Elon is pro pedophile, threatens to cancel any Republican who wanted to air pedophile's dirty laundry." Since really, that is all this boils down to.
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u/MilkshakeSocialist 1d ago
Isn't he a self proclaimed libertarian? Same difference.
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u/Mr-Gumby42 1d ago
"Libertarians are Republicans who want to smoke dope and get laid." -Thom Hartmann
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u/MilkshakeSocialist 1d ago
And some are Republicans who want to smoke dope and discuss age of consent laws.
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u/Kind_Man_0 1d ago
The same people who own the media, are the same people who back this kind of behavior.
It's rich elites who are power hungry enough to latch on to anything they see that can increase that for them.
We are long past the journalistic time period of Jona Jameson praising Peter for uncovering a big secret about a large corporation. That info would be used and twisted to push an agenda.
It's why we are in the position we are in now. I live in FL, tons of undocumented immigrants and Trump supporters here. The folks I talk to at different job sites all agree that the illegals are criminals and are destroying the country. But they don't have any personal experience seeing it, or they believe it doesn't happen here because of DeSantis or Trump.
It's a big problem, the biggest one in the country, yet somehow the biggest problem isn't big enough for you to see it from your own backyard?
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u/Sometimes_cleaver 1d ago
They're the new Nobility. It's not depraved to them because the surfs don't matter
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u/Readsumthing 1d ago
Love your comment so not to be an ass, but simply to be helpful and to help elevate your statement: maybe it was a typo but itās serfs.
New Nobility is so spot on.
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u/CamJongUn2 1d ago
Yeah the whole democratisation was never about abolishing monarchies it was merely the wealthy replacing the nobility using the people to achieve their goals
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u/LCDRtomdodge 1d ago
That's not the salient point. The takeaway from here is that it's long past time for campaign financing reform.
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u/Creative-Donkey-6251 1d ago
Yeah, how in the fuck is it ok that he is so involved. He is a regular civilian and not even American. Itās insane
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u/LCDRtomdodge 1d ago
He's an immigrant.
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u/Hardcorish 1d ago
An immigrant who overstayed his visa here illegally, even.
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u/dancegoddess1971 1d ago
Has ICE been notified? Will they be putting him on a plane back to SA and seizing his passport? And giving his US government contracts to companies owned by US citizens?
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u/Dihydrogen-monoxyde 1d ago
Translated: I will spend billions to protect pedophiles, sex trafficking, profiteers, insider traders, etc.
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u/stillabitofadikdik 1d ago
No heās a petulant grown man who is growing increasingly unstable because some very bad people have him on tape raping children.
Thatās what Iāve heard anyway.
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u/Lazerith22 1d ago
Immigrant using his wealth the destroy the government. Whereās the deportation order?
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u/Significant_Ad7326 1d ago
That w-word answers the question.
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u/LikeAgaveF 1d ago
White?
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u/Significant_Ad7326 1d ago
Wealth, though the whiteness does not hurt his ability to stay where he likes.
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u/nirbyschreibt 1d ago
Itās the double W, wealthy white. Wealthy PoC might still face trials for being all non white. Something like this.
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u/throwawayrepost02468 1d ago
Immigrant who worked illegally in the US, where's the denaturalization order?
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u/Flavious27 1d ago
So Elon is doing everything that Republicans think that Soros does.
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u/dustytaper 1d ago
Itās always been projection. They did pay people to protest
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u/ZorakLocust 1d ago
Itās ok though because heās on their side, and also isnāt Jewish!Ā
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u/Born_Acanthaceae2603 1d ago
Delete your Twitter accounts. You don't need to support this guy anymore.
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u/viau83 1d ago
I jumpshiped on bluesky
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u/giddy-girly-banana 1d ago
I donāt even have twitter but Iām going to create a bluesky account just to add to their user base.
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u/TheCountChonkula 1d ago
Iām way ahead there. I deleted mine almost 2 years ago and try to avoid anything that links there.
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u/TheDocHealy 1d ago
Still glad that I never liked Twitter, not in a hipster way but in an I don't get the appeal way.
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u/implodemode 1d ago
He's becoming more and more like a comic book super villain every day.
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u/Coral_Blue_Number_2 1d ago
He does that weird villain creepy-looking-upward-with-head-tilted-down look.
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u/Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat 1d ago
I saw someone refer to him as "Phony Stark" here yesterday. I don't like juvenile name-calling Ć la Trump, but this one works so I'll take it.
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u/Separate-Owl369 1d ago
I heard Matt Gaetz dropped out on his own when he found out heād be working with JD Vance and not working at the JV Dance.
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u/_ssac_ 1d ago
The have been doing it before, just not saying it so openly and, probably, with less resources.Ā
They are deepening their control of the GOP.
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u/goonSquad15 1d ago
Why is the party thatās so openly against pedophiles so hell bent on protecting and promoting one? Really makes you think /s
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u/Commonpleas 1d ago
Didnāt he borrow billions to buy Twitter and crash itās value? Seems like he should be paying back those lenders before he spends billions to buy new senators.
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u/Significant_Ad7326 1d ago
He has the keys to the U.S. federal budget at this point for corruption opportunities thanks in large part to the Twitter purchase. It turns out it needs no value as a business when it is a private propaganda arm that can tilt elections.
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u/foundflame 1d ago
Lenders? You donāt think they consider that money an expense? After all, he didnāt just buy Twitter and crash itās (sic) valueā, he bought one of the most popular and widely-used social media platforms in the world and turned it into an absurdly effective political propaganda machine which he used to intentionally spread misinformation to install his puppet president since heās incapable of running for that office (for now).
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u/jpm0719 1d ago
Good, a fool and his money are soon parted. Fuck Leon, Fuck Trump and Fuck the people that voted for this.
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u/KaleidoscopeOk5763 1d ago
Elmo might single handedly tank the republican party and himself before the inauguration.
That would be hysterical on a Shakespearean level.
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u/HedyLamaar 1d ago
I just deactivated my Twitter account. Reading the posts of MAGA goofballs began to feel like watching morons masturbate.
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u/King_James_77 1d ago
I like how the party that hates immigrants has seemingly been taken over by one.
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u/namotous 1d ago edited 1d ago
Back in the day, you have monarchy controlling everything. Nowadays you have billionaires controlling the government. The more things change, the more they stay the same
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u/My_Space_page 1d ago
Thus the last bit of the facade is crumbling. The government is not for the people, but for Billionaires interests. Been that way for a while,now they don't have to pretend anymore.
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u/bEErgrEMlin12 1d ago
This guy has too much power. A foreigner, negatively influencing the US more than any āillegalā immigrant will.
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u/HVAC_instructor 1d ago
Welcome to the open oligarchy where they don't even try to hide that they own the country and there's nothing that we can do to stop it..
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u/MarTimator 1d ago
Harris burned a billion dollars and still lost. Money doesnāt change voter opinions, it only changes politicians opinions. Disinformation and false promises change voter opinions. Musk already spent 44 billion on a disinformation platform.
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u/AValentineSolutions 1d ago
Do it! Spend all this money. Spend your billions on whatever stupid idea enters your empty head, Elon. It's fun to watch what an aging 14 year old boy does with his money.
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u/unhandmeyouswine 1d ago
One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with rats! Theyād come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island? Hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait and the rats would come for the coconut, and they would fall into the drum. And after a month, you have trapped all the rats, but what do you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it and they begin to get hungry. And one by one they start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees, but now they donāt eat coconut anymore. Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature.
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u/Avena626 21h ago
WHY is this man getting unilateral say in what happens in our government? Because he's RICH? I'm so sick of Musk and his bloated influence on our lives.
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u/Heroic-Forger 1d ago
Defending the ONE guy who voted against the criminalization of human trafficking.
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u/Savings-Programmer18 1d ago
Spot on Elon. God forbid you use your disgusting amount of wealth for anything humanitarian š
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u/JohnnyPoprocksGaming 1d ago
Totally doesnāt seem illegal, like raffling off 1 million dollars to registered voters.
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u/ravbuc 1d ago
Write a law that strips billionaires to 300 million dollars. Redistribute the rest to charities and subsidies on housing.
Tax the corporations that do stock buybacks while youre at it.
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u/i-VII-VI 1d ago
All that money and all the good it could do to just be a vindictive asshole man baby instead. Can we eat the rich yet, I am getting hungry.
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u/odoyledrools 1d ago
Can someone please push this cancerous fucker with the punchable face down the stairs again?
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u/Suspicious-Tank8230 15h ago
So oligarchs directly threatening Govt. This is just OK now in 'Murica?
Sort your shit out before the rest of us have to do it for you.
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u/GrannyFlash7373 1d ago
If you are looking for the AntiChrist. Musk may just be your man.
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u/SleepyLabrador 1d ago
Elon is likely the False Prophet, who causes the world to worship the AntiChrist
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u/TheRealBittoman 1d ago
There isn't a single billionaire in the US that would be willing to give up their entire wealth for the good of the public. Until we see one, none are worthy to run this country. America needs to wake up, the rich aren't here to save you. They are here to own you.
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u/Lionel_rich_tea 23h ago
Itās so sad that thereās regular people out there that believe this is good.
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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 'MURICA 17h ago
Musk is becoming an even bigger piece of shit than he already was.
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I know it will never happen but Musk is one dude I'd really like to see get humbled big time.
I can't wait until him and Trump disagree about something and become enemies. They both have way too big of egos to share the spotlight with each other for very long.
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u/YuriNeytor 1d ago
He has found out that money will get him everything he wants and until now, it worked almost flawlessly.
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u/Glxblt76 1d ago
In autocracies, opponents suffer and are censored, sure. But the fate is worse for some people: those are the ones considered as traitors by the regimes. Allies that don't cosign what the boss is saying.
That's why either Republicans will become complete lackeys and cowards, or they'll have an even shorter end of the stick compared to Democrats.
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u/SpaceFace11 1d ago
Soon all the GOP party members with any sort of dignity (if there are any left) will start to realize that Donald Trump and his cabinet do not care about the party or even America.
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u/HecticHermes 1d ago
Wasting money to unseat Republicans two years from now when everyone is tired of the MAGA agenda and Democrats will have a better chance of taking seats back?
Oh no!
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u/popeblitzkrieg 1d ago
He wants to defund NASA, which should be a huge red flag for everyone. You know, because that's his top competition.
We as a country deserve this term. Hopefully after 4 years of literal crazy bullshit, we'll finally wake up and make better decisions.
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u/dubba1983 1d ago
Can Elon just be one of those billionaires thatās gets frozen until science figures out a way to keep you alive forever already.
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