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  1. "When you search Amazon, the top results do not represent Amazon's best guess about what product will best match your query: rather, Amazon *auctions off* those top results to its platform sellers. Amazon's search results reflect who paid the biggest bribe, not who has the best product."
    - @pluralistic

    pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/che

    #Amazon #Enshittification #Business #Economy #Money #JeffBezos #Oligarchy #Plutocracy #News #Press #US #USA #UnitedStates #World #WorldNews

  2. Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip

    Maybe they should start by cutting their own spending of foreign donors' money.

    Funny how they're all against foreign people but all for foreign money.

    bbc.com/news/articles/cz977nxw

    #plutocracy #oligarchy #EpsteinClass

  3. Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip

    Maybe they should start by cutting their own spending of foreign donors' money.

    Funny how they're all against foreign people but all for foreign money.

    bbc.com/news/articles/cz977nxw

    #plutocracy #oligarchy #EpsteinClass

  4. Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip

    Maybe they should start by cutting their own spending of foreign donors' money.

    Funny how they're all against foreign people but all for foreign money.

    bbc.com/news/articles/cz977nxw

    #plutocracy #oligarchy #EpsteinClass

  5. Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip

    Maybe they should start by cutting their own spending of foreign donors' money.

    Funny how they're all against foreign people but all for foreign money.

    bbc.com/news/articles/cz977nxw

    #plutocracy #oligarchy #EpsteinClass

  6. Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip

    Maybe they should start by cutting their own spending of foreign donors' money.

    Funny how they're all against foreign people but all for foreign money.

    bbc.com/news/articles/cz977nxw

    #plutocracy #oligarchy #EpsteinClass

  7. @OGJester

    (cont.)

    As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

    So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

    His full post: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l

    (bolding added)

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    #RuleOfLaw #laws #oligarchy #Epstein #EpsteinClass #Republicans #Trump #TrumpRegime

  8. @OGJester

    (cont.)

    As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

    So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

    His full post: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l

    (bolding added)

    2/2

    #RuleOfLaw #laws #oligarchy #Epstein #EpsteinClass #Republicans #Trump #TrumpRegime

  9. @OGJester

    (cont.)

    As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

    So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

    His full post: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l

    (bolding added)

    2/2

    #RuleOfLaw #laws #oligarchy #Epstein #EpsteinClass #Republicans #Trump #TrumpRegime

  10. @OGJester

    (cont.)

    As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

    So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

    His full post: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l

    (bolding added)

    2/2

    #RuleOfLaw #laws #oligarchy #Epstein #EpsteinClass #Republicans #Trump #TrumpRegime

  11. @OGJester

    (cont.)

    As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

    So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

    His full post: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l

    (bolding added)

    2/2

    #RuleOfLaw #laws #oligarchy #Epstein #EpsteinClass #Republicans #Trump #TrumpRegime

  12. @OGJester As musician Frank Wilhoit famously wrote:

    Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

    There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

    There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

    He continued:

    For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

    (bolding added)

    1/2

    #RuleOfLaw #laws #oligarchy #Epstein #EpsteinClass #Republicans #Trump #TrumpRegime

  13. @OGJester As musician Frank Wilhoit famously wrote:

    Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

    There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

    There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

    He continued:

    For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

    (bolding added)

    1/2

    #RuleOfLaw #laws #oligarchy #Epstein #EpsteinClass #Republicans #Trump #TrumpRegime

  14. @OGJester As musician Frank Wilhoit famously wrote:

    Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

    There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

    There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

    He continued:

    For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

    (bolding added)

    1/2

    #RuleOfLaw #laws #oligarchy #Epstein #EpsteinClass #Republicans #Trump #TrumpRegime

  15. @OGJester As musician Frank Wilhoit famously wrote:

    Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

    There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

    There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

    He continued:

    For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

    (bolding added)

    1/2

    #RuleOfLaw #laws #oligarchy #Epstein #EpsteinClass #Republicans #Trump #TrumpRegime

  16. @OGJester As musician Frank Wilhoit famously wrote:

    Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

    There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

    There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

    He continued:

    For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

    (bolding added)

    1/2

    #RuleOfLaw #laws #oligarchy #Epstein #EpsteinClass #Republicans #Trump #TrumpRegime

  17. @gerrymcgovern #sheeple endowing #TechBros and #FossilFuels #Oligarchy, with the future of their children.

    Despicable.

    Remove the abusers from power.

  18. @TwoClownsEating Don't worry, Peter Theil has Argentina's crypto venture covered, in promoting more EU conflict, for the #FossilFuels #Oligarchy.

  19. Historically, fascism is "a cult of grievance & self- victimization that promises a return to greatness through the purging of a demonized hated enemy, usually a minority group,"

    The tech fascists, Thiel, Musk, et al. see democracy itself as "an obstacle to their own freedom – meaning freedom from us, & from society."

    youtube.com/watch?v=bdPU_O93Eyo

    #USPol #EUPol #Fascism #Democracy #news #oligarchy #techfascism .

  20. Historically, fascism is "a cult of grievance & self- victimization that promises a return to greatness through the purging of a demonized hated enemy, usually a minority group,"

    The tech fascists, Thiel, Musk, et al. see democracy itself as "an obstacle to their own freedom – meaning freedom from us, & from society."

    youtube.com/watch?v=bdPU_O93Eyo

    #USPol #EUPol #Fascism #Democracy #news #oligarchy #techfascism .

  21. Historically, fascism is "a cult of grievance & self- victimization that promises a return to greatness through the purging of a demonized hated enemy, usually a minority group,"

    The tech fascists, Thiel, Musk, et al. see democracy itself as "an obstacle to their own freedom – meaning freedom from us, & from society."

    youtube.com/watch?v=bdPU_O93Eyo

    #USPol #EUPol #Fascism #Democracy #news #oligarchy #techfascism .

  22. Historically, fascism is "a cult of grievance & self- victimization that promises a return to greatness through the purging of a demonized hated enemy, usually a minority group,"

    The tech fascists, Thiel, Musk, et al. see democracy itself as "an obstacle to their own freedom – meaning freedom from us, & from society."

    youtube.com/watch?v=bdPU_O93Eyo

    #USPol #EUPol #Fascism #Democracy #news #oligarchy #techfascism .

  23. “The wealthiest 10% of the global population owns 75% of all wealth. The poorest 50% holds only 2%. The individuals at the top could use tiny portions of their own fortunes to make the world so much better for everyone, and overwhelmingly they choose not to.

    Dolly Parton’s life as a self-made millionaire was the antithesis of this. She has shown them all up with the power of her legacy.”

    #dollyparton #oligarchy #politics #uspolitics

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  24. “The wealthiest 10% of the global population owns 75% of all wealth. The poorest 50% holds only 2%. The individuals at the top could use tiny portions of their own fortunes to make the world so much better for everyone, and overwhelmingly they choose not to.

    Dolly Parton’s life as a self-made millionaire was the antithesis of this. She has shown them all up with the power of her legacy.”

    #dollyparton #oligarchy #politics #uspolitics

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  25. “The wealthiest 10% of the global population owns 75% of all wealth. The poorest 50% holds only 2%. The individuals at the top could use tiny portions of their own fortunes to make the world so much better for everyone, and overwhelmingly they choose not to.

    Dolly Parton’s life as a self-made millionaire was the antithesis of this. She has shown them all up with the power of her legacy.”

    #dollyparton #oligarchy #politics #uspolitics

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  26. “The wealthiest 10% of the global population owns 75% of all wealth. The poorest 50% holds only 2%. The individuals at the top could use tiny portions of their own fortunes to make the world so much better for everyone, and overwhelmingly they choose not to.

    Dolly Parton’s life as a self-made millionaire was the antithesis of this. She has shown them all up with the power of her legacy.”

    #dollyparton #oligarchy #politics #uspolitics

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/