#oligarchic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oligarchic, aggregated by home.social.
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There is nothing more cataclysmic than a sea of unarmed #citizens out for #justice - even the richest #oligarchic leeches, armed with billions of robots, tanks and satellites, would crumble like twigs.
Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
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Definition of #Authoritarianism (via #Wikipedia) :
"Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political #StatusQuo, and reductions in #democracy, #SeparationOfPowers, civil liberties, and the rule of law. #Authoritarian regimes may be either #autocratic or #oligarchic and may be based upon the rule of a party, the military, or the concentration of power in a single person."
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#Ukrainian #farmers are often vilified as #oligarchic agri-barons who pose a threat to the #EU. The real picture is far more complex.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-farm-giants-kyiv-volodymyr-zelenskyy/
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In the year 2174, the #US will be an #autocracy with #oligarchic and #theocratic elements and will reign over most of what was Canada. #Technology will have reverted to a 19th Century level. Here’s my review of the 2009 #sciencefiction #novel that outlines this dark vision doncurren.blogspot.com?m=1
Curren(t) Thinking -
#Capitalism and the #oligarchic #overlords in a nutshell
#Billionaires and #gigacorps be like y'all, 'I #drink your #milkshake!' #yt
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#Capitalism and the #oligarchic #overlords in a nutshell
#Billionaires and #gigacorps be like y'all, 'I #drink your #milkshake!' #yt
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#Capitalism and the #oligarchic #overlords in a nutshell
#Billionaires and #gigacorps be like y'all, 'I #drink your #milkshake!' #yt
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#Capitalism and the #oligarchic #overlords in a nutshell
#Billionaires and #gigacorps be like y'all, 'I #drink your #milkshake!' #yt
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‘#Revolution With Joy’: #Bernie and #AOC Draw Massive Crowd in Los Angeles
Sanders appeared to draw his largest crowd ever as he warned supporters that “we are living today in an #oligarchic form of society”
by Naomi LaChance, April 12, 2025
"Sanders noted that Musk had posted a video to X on Friday showing that Sanders has been warning that America is becoming an oligarchy for decades. 'Well, Elon, you’re damn right, that’s what I’ve been talking about,' Sanders said.
" 'The difference is I’m no longer talking about how we’re moving to oligarchy. I’m talking about how we are living today in an oligarchic form of society. Three months ago, when Trump was inaugurated, standing right behind him during his inauguration, were the three wealthiest people in this country, Mr. #Musk, Mr. [Jeff] #Bezos and Mr. [Mark] #Zuckerberg. And right behind them, were 13 other #billionaires who Trump had nominated to head up major federal agencies. And that, brothers and sisters, is what #oligarchy is all about.' "
Archived version:
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Thousands in #Midwestern #GOP Districts Attend #Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight #Oligarchy
"It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration," said one observer.
Julia Conley, Feb 22, 2025
"After addressing more than 3,400 #Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy—telling Iowa City, #Iowa residents that '#Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the #DCBeltway.'
"'For better or worse, that is not going to happen,' said the Vermont Independent senator, whose broadly popular policy proposals have long been dismissed by Democratic leaders as unrealistic and radical while President Donald Trump has increasingly captured the attention of the #WorkingClass Americans who would benefit most from Sanders' ideas.
"'It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in #Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong #grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to #authoritarianism, no to #kleptocracy, no to massive cuts to programs that #LowIncome and working Americans desperately need, no to huge #TaxBreaks for the #wealthiest people in this country,' said Sanders.
"The senator announced his tour earlier this month as #ElonMusk, the head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE) who poured $277 million on the president's campaign, swept through numerous agencies, with DOGE staffers setting up illegal servers, seizing control of data, shutting federal employees out of offices, and working to shut down operations across the government.
"Since Trump took office for his second term just over a month ago, roughly 30,000 federal employees have been fired or laid off—part of Musk's push to cut $2 trillion in federal spending in order to fill the $4.6 trillion hole that Trump's extension of the 2017 tax cuts would blow in the deficit.
"#Republican lawmakers have also pushed to include cuts to #Medicaid, and Trump this week signaled he would back #Medicare cuts after repeatedly insisting he would not slash the popular healthcare program used by more than 65 million Americans, in order to save money while handing out tax cuts to the same #corporations and #ultrawealthy households that benefited from the 2017 tax law.
"'Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an #oligarchic form of society where a handful of #multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power,' said Sanders in Iowa City, which like Omaha is represented by a Republican U.S. House member who narrowly won reelection last November and has faced pressure to reject the GOP budget plan. 'Brothers and sisters, that is not the democracy that men and women fought and died to defend.'"
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-donald-trump
#Oligarchy #OligarchyTour #StillSanders #BernieSanders #USPol #CorporateInterests #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism -
Raawwrrrr! #BernieSanders, 83, started the video by saying he's not typically "in the habit of thanking #ElonMusk."
"'But I must confess that he's done an exceptional job of demonstrating a point that a few of us have been making for years, and that is the reality that we live in an #oligarchic society in which #billionaires dominate not only our politics and the information we consume from media but our government and economic lives as well,' Sanders said."
https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-elon-musk-tour-oligarchy-2030615#slideshow/2587724
#Sanders2028 #SandersForSenate2030 #StillSanders #Oligarchy -
How The #US Became So #Dysfunctional, #Oligarchic, And #Corrupt – #OpEd
#DomesticPolitics in the #US is, superficially, dominated by incessant #public #fights between different #factions of the two ostensibly rival #PoliticalParties, thanks to the #collaboration of #establishment #media and many #socialnetworks.
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How The #US Became So #Dysfunctional, #Oligarchic, And #Corrupt – #OpEd
#DomesticPolitics in the #US is, superficially, dominated by incessant #public #fights between different #factions of the two ostensibly rival #PoliticalParties, thanks to the #collaboration of #establishment #media and many #socialnetworks.
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@artemis To be fair to Elon the #oligarch, such #oligarchic regimes look really good from the perspective of the oppressors.
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How #JackLondon Foresaw the #AntiDemocratic #Future With #TheIronHeel.
#KenMcGoogan on the #Dangers of #Oligarchic #Totalitarian #Rule in #Fiction and in #RealLife
In one of the most prescient dystopian works ever written, the #narrator describes how the #party in #government, having lost an #election, simply declined to leave office.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture
https://lithub.com/how-jack-london-foresaw-the-anti-democratic-future-with-the-iron-heel/
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@[email protected] @gwynnion Now that I have heard #KamalaHarris at the DNC, it seems clear we are not about to see any fundamental changes to the #Oligarchic control and US support for war and genocide.
I always feel embarrassed for my flights of irrational hope.
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@gwynnion So hot I decided to medicate (intoxicate, either is well within acceptable human behavior). So imagination has upper hand. Within the current system the first reaction of inconvenienced #Oligarchic rulers seems always to involve death inflicted on the #WorkingClaas. But sufficient numbers can prevail. Roll of the dice.
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"the year is 2100. the great us-china #cyberwar has destroyed the teleinformatic brain chip control system (TIBCCS), returning #free will to the masses for the first time in 30 years. as roving bands of #freeminds ravage the #countryside, zonked like they're on ultrameth from a #lifetime of chipsleep, the #economy is reorganized according to #neofeudal principles. guided by the maxim "#democracy for the worthy", #oligarchic LLCs (limited liege #conglomerates) win vast manors worked by the remaining chipsleepers. freeminds subsist by #selling #arts and #crafts—a grueling #job, but higher pleasures like #mathematics are restricted to the #elites by sumptuary #laws. a band of #poor and ragged #wanderers huddles the night in an abandoned #mall. perhaps they will find #companionship. or perhaps they will part at daybreak, and forever remain strangers."
https://www.tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollective/718245223071875072?source=share
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"the year is 2100. the great us-china #cyberwar has destroyed the teleinformatic brain chip control system (TIBCCS), returning #free will to the masses for the first time in 30 years. as roving bands of #freeminds ravage the #countryside, zonked like they're on ultrameth from a #lifetime of chipsleep, the #economy is reorganized according to #neofeudal principles. guided by the maxim "#democracy for the worthy", #oligarchic LLCs (limited liege #conglomerates) win vast manors worked by the remaining chipsleepers. freeminds subsist by #selling #arts and #crafts—a grueling #job, but higher pleasures like #mathematics are restricted to the #elites by sumptuary #laws. a band of #poor and ragged #wanderers huddles the night in an abandoned #mall. perhaps they will find #companionship. or perhaps they will part at daybreak, and forever remain strangers."
https://www.tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollective/718245223071875072?source=share
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@fossesq This thread reeks of the #bias form known as #racism.
I heard an interview on public radio with a well-known Serbian writer (and professor) Vesna Goldsworthy who friended the Russian enclave in London.
Oligarchs collected not only art, but books. All were beneficiaries of the old school soviet education system, with one being a professor.
My view of #academic education is that it is #oligarchic in the sense of the original academy - the reverse of #democracy. Crime.
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@Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti
(12/13)
"...health continued to deteriorate in the late 1990s, the #oligarchs began to worry about who would be his successor."
And then the oligarchs made the same mistake that the more conservative parties of the #WeimarRepublic (Weimarer Republik) made with the #nobody #AdolfHitler: they thought they could control him:
"In 1999, Boris #Yeltsin and his #oligarchic allies agreed that an obscure former #KGB officer..."
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One of our preferred acronyms to describe #BigTech is #CAGeFAM – the 'C' for Cloudflare and 'e' for memecoiner…
Obviously.
But new possiblities may emerge when we add vowels for #IBM and #Oracle, and *possibly* a 'B' for #TikTok's #ByteDance, and 'R' for #reddit (we're on the fence about adding the latter two but the anti-#cryptocurrency move to ban people talking about CCs on TikTok, and the appointment of #JenniferAshooh to reddit is tipping us towards them being #oligarchic).
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@samuraikid
During the past year it is said that #BillGates, has become the biggest #landlord, at least in terms of #agricultural land.Yes, #BigTech, are a massive problem. It seems they are all #diversify into complementary industries and building up #oligarchic structures. For example, #Amazon and #Google have their fingers in as many, if not more, insidious pies than #Microsoft.