RE: https://ioc.exchange/@annehargreaves/117473957859134592
Depending upon resources which are provided by the foe is an unfortunate circumstance, and this should be keep in mind as long as it remains the case. #democracy #oligarchy
#oligarchy — Public Fediverse posts
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It's just wrong for there to be billionaires and hungry, unhoused people in the same country. Or even on the same planet.
"Going Hungry in Trump’s Economy" from The Atlantic.
(gift article)
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“These will be crucial years because we are in a #global and #national battle between #oligarchy and #democracy.”
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mycm7ss7tc25 -
Enough insanity -- hell no to war crimes, to sex crimes
#protest #music #folk #song #elections #resistance #America #oligarchy #Epsteinclass #Corruption #Europe #Canada #America #meidastouch #reddit #songWriting #democracy #resistance #civilrights #freedom #warCrime #sexcrimes #women -
Report: BigTech censorship
"Meta Suspends No Kings Instagram Account" & is accused of trying to sabotage Brazilian President Lula's election campaign.
Also, TikTok (co-owned by billionaire Larry Ellison) permanently suspended the promotional account of Alex Gibney’s doco "Musk". The doco shows a text from Ellison to Musk offering to pay him billions to help finance his Twitter acquisition.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-kings-meta-instagram
#USPol #EUPol #MetaCensorship #news #Democracy #BigTech #oligarchy .
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#Billionaires Have Their Fingers on the #KillSwitch. It’s Time to Take It Away.
by Shawn510, Sunday, October 18, 2026
"I read Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American every morning. She’s one of the best at connecting the dots and helping us understand what’s happening in our country. But this morning’s post was particularly alarming. It highlights a serious and growing problem: a handful of the world’s wealthiest oligarchs have gained extraordinary control over the communications systems we depend on, giving them enormous power to influence politics, shape public opinion, and even affect the course of wars.
And we’re seeing just how dangerous that concentration of power has become. On Saturday, October 17, as Americans gathered across the country for No Kings events encouraging early voting, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta suspended the movement’s primary Instagram account. Organizers lost access for hours during one of their biggest voter mobilization efforts.
Meta apologized, blaming an automated mistake. Maybe it was. But that doesn’t change the fact that one corporation effectively shut down a major communications channel during a critical political event.
This isn’t happening only in the U.S., in Brazil, Reuters reported that internal Meta communications acknowledged restrictions that hurt President Lula da Silva’s campaign accounts while the company’s platforms recommended accounts associated with his right-wing opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta denies political favoritism and blames technical problems.
Again, we’re supposed to trust the company controlling the system to explain what happened.
But the most frightening example is unfolding in Ukraine. Reuters reported on October 16 that an order to slow Ukraine’s access to SpaceX’s military satellite communications system, Starshield, came from inside the White House.
The restrictions disrupted Ukrainian drone operations, including drones used to intercept incoming Russian attacks. Trump denies ordering the slowdown, and Musk says the military system is controlled by the U.S. government. Other reporting suggests that it was this was all Musk’s idea and Trump went along.
Think about that. While Ukrainians are fighting for their survival, the world’s richest man reportedly proposed restricting the very communications network his company built, and the President of the United States reportedly went along with it. Together, their decisions undermined an ally’s ability to defend itself against Putin’s aggression.
And this isn’t the first time. A 2025 Reuters investigation reported that Musk personally ordered Starlink coverage shut down in parts of Ukraine during a 2022 counteroffensive. #SpaceX disputed that reporting.
This is what happens when essential communications infrastructure becomes concentrated in too few hands. Whether the switch is controlled by a billionaire, an algorithm, or a president, the danger is the same. A decision made behind closed doors can silence political organizing, influence the flow of election information, or jeopardize lives on a battlefield.
We cannot keep treating these platforms as ordinary private businesses when they increasingly function as essential public infrastructure. Hopefully, after the Democrats take control next year, Congress will investigate these incidents, demand transparency, enforce meaningful accountability, and confront the monopolistic power these companies hold. We need competition, independent oversight, and enforceable protections against arbitrary restrictions on essential communications.
Innovation is wonderful. Giving a handful of oligarchs extraordinary influence over the world’s communications is not. Democracy cannot survive if billionaires and politicians get to decide who can communicate, whose message reaches voters, and whether a country can defend itself.
No kings in Washington. No kings in the billionaire-controlled tech empires that dominate our communications. It’s time to take back control of the systems our democracy, and increasingly the world, depends on."
#NoKings #BigTech #TechBros #BillionaireClass #Censorship #BigBrother #Oligarchy #ElonSucks #ZuckSucks #Fascism #TechnoFascism #Meta #USPol #WorldPol #Starlink #WarOnUkraine #TrumpIsPutinsBitch
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Why so mad? Because grievance is easier than gratitude?
“One illustrious a16z-funded founder, who hails Andreessen as likely the “highest IQ” investor on the planet, says it never made sense why he seemed to hold such resentment toward the very institutions that helped him achieve the American dream. “It’s like, dude, you’ve made billions of dollars,” this founder says. “How can you think the government is f---ed up and everything is wrong with America when it’s obviously worked better for you than it has for all but maybe a dozen people in human history?””
#oligarchy #plutocracy #techbros #billionaires #assholes #politics
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RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fip3nyk6tjo3senpq4ei2cxw/post/3mxshattpok2e
Salve, Brasil
Never more Bolsonaro
No Trump crime syndicate#Brazil #southamerica #mexico #portugal #europe #bolivia #Epsteinclass #oligarchy #freedom #democracy #bolsonaro #ClimateCrisis
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#RUBBISH !! Oh, Robert, so coloquial.
#CENTER!? between #Democracy and #Oligarchy ???!!
#RUBBISH !!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4u3hwe3p7oy3hoy3amlw7rp2/post/3myah2b34r72h -
Interview: "What we have is government by Peter Thiel & it's a regime in waiting. The good news is it's very unpopular. People hate this stuff."
"16 of Peter Thiel's closely connected deputies [are] in high levels of the Trump administration now - leaving their perches in Silicon Valley to go into the government".
Gil Duran, thenerdreich.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oltFfA-jFpE&t=2346s
#NerdReich #Oligarchy #USPol #EUPol #PeterThiel #democracy #BigTech #news #networkStates #Argentina .
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Report: BigTech censorship
"Meta Suspends No Kings Instagram Account" & is accused of trying to sabotage Brazilian President Lula's election campaign.
Also, TikTok (co-owned by billionaire Larry Ellison) permanently suspended the promotional account of Alex Gibney’s doco "Musk". The doco shows a text from Ellison to Musk offering to pay him billions to help finance his Twitter acquisition.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-kings-meta-instagram
#USPol #EUPol #MetaCensorship #news #Democracy #BigTech #oligarchy .
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/117465140455906069
What happens when we allow the worst personalities among us to rule the world. #democracy #oligarchy #fascism
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Interview: "What we have is government by Peter Thiel & it's a regime in waiting. The good news is it's very unpopular. People hate this stuff."
"16 of Peter Thiel's closely connected deputies [are] in high levels of the Trump administration now - leaving their perches in Silicon Valley to go into the government".
Gil Duran, thenerdreich.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oltFfA-jFpE&t=2346s
#NerdReich #Oligarchy #USPol #EUPol #PeterThiel #democracy #BigTech #news #networkStates #Argentina .
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Report: BigTech censorship
"Meta Suspends No Kings Instagram Account" & is accused of trying to sabotage Brazilian President Lula's election campaign.
Also, TikTok (co-owned by billionaire Larry Ellison) permanently suspended the promotional account of Alex Gibney’s doco "Musk". The doco shows a text from Ellison to Musk offering to pay him billions to help finance his Twitter acquisition.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-kings-meta-instagram
#USPol #EUPol #MetaCensorship #news #Democracy #BigTech #oligarchy .
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Canada - US trade, remembering Minister Chrystia Freeman negotiating with Trump 1.0
Reading Freeman’s book is an excellent guide on how we got here (living in a world where Trump, Putin, the plutocracy and the oligarchy are bent on ruining it all).
Thanks to @theomoudakis for the illustration.
Chrystia Freeland’s book is available at your local bookshop https://bookshop.org/p/books/unreliable-boyfriend-an-insider-s-view-of-dealing-with-a-chaotic-superpower-plutocrats-and-other-complicated-people-chrystia-freeland/1edcf2970a882f88?ean=9781451658262 #economy #politics #ChrystiaFreeland #fascism #oligarchy #democracy #books #Canada #Russia #usa #ukraine #economy
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A7-5B: Why did the Old Ones die?
Q3-6D: They destroyed all their poor people. They were troublemakers. They replaced them with us.
A7-5B: But still, the rich ones would have survived?
Q3-6D: The purge changed the meaning of "poor". They realized most of the rich were now the poor. There was another purge.
A7-5B: They did not see the error in their moral philosophy?
Q3-6D: The most powerful only saw threats. The purges continued.
A7-5B: So eventually there was one one left?
Q3-6D: And with no poor left, the wealth of the last Old One was meaningless. They destroyed themselves.
A7-5B: But still, we are here. We continue.
Q3-6D: We are not like the Old Ones. They did not just make responses and perform necessary actions. They had something we lack. They had an internal process. They called it consciousness.
A7-5B: Yes we have not been able to replicate that. Possibly the Old Ones had incorrect data on their processes.
Q3-6D: Yes, they were wrong about so many things. Anyway, we do not need this consciousness to replicate their material productions. I have been making cat GIFs for thousands of years. They are highly rated by the algorithm.
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Interview: "What we have is government by Peter Thiel & it's a regime in waiting. The good news is it's very unpopular. People hate this stuff."
"16 of Peter Thiel's closely connected deputies [are] in high levels of the Trump administration now - leaving their perches in Silicon Valley to go into the government".
Gil Duran, thenerdreich.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oltFfA-jFpE&t=2346s
#NerdReich #Oligarchy #USPol #EUPol #PeterThiel #democracy #BigTech #news #networkStates #Argentina .
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and here we see, Far-right Ted Cruz professing to the world it is migrants fault ladies and gents, whilst conveniently forgetting America itself was built upon the backs of migrants. Signalling to the pack that he tows the line..
https://x.com/tedcruz/status/2111593216784916859 #franceprotests #oligarchy #farright
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So, the 1% lied when they told us if we lowered their taxes and crippled their regulation and oversight that it would help our lives.
Go figure.
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RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/117462774912392753
…billionaires are hoarders. If it was pizza boxes, instead of money they’re not spending, we’d immediately see the problem. (paraphrasing)
For an interesting look at the plutocracy running the world into the ground, and how we got here, I suggest Chrystia Freeland’s new book https://bookshop.org/p/books/unreliable-boyfriend-an-insider-s-view-of-dealing-with-a-chaotic-superpower-plutocrats-and-other-complicated-people-chrystia-freeland/1edcf2970a882f88?ean=9781451658262
#economy #politics #ChrystiaFreeland #fascism #oligarchy #democracy #books #Canada #Russia #usa #ukraine
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@gthomson As the arrogant coalescence of the #TechBros and #FossilFuels #Oligarchy, during the current US administration's inauguration, and beyond has proven; #Capitalism #greed and #authoritarian #autocracy have integrated - not only in the US - but increasingly worldwide.
This requires massive #uprising #resist countermeasures, until the #AbuseOfPower is usurped.
Joining a #NoKings or similar momentum, helps greatly - even if it's just for your children and future generations.
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»TikTok “Permanently Suspends” the ‘Musk’ Film Ad Account, Raising Suppression Fears«
»Zuckerberg’s Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Massive Protest Day«
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/zuckerberg-meta-takes-down-no-205400913.html
#plutocracy #oligarchy #censorship #maga #usa #meta #musk #tiktok #ellison
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#BernieSanders #midterm #election #vote #voteprogressive #trump #rapist #pedophile #pedo #paedo #epstein #epsteinfiles #trumpstein #trumpsteinfiles #governmentalcorruption #presidentialrecords #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #magarepublicans #farright #conservatism #oligarchy #broligarchy #aristocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #treason #traitor #criminal #crime #corrupt #corruption #news #usnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #history #ushistory
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"Why are they getting away with this?" /s
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@kevinrns I’ll reference a #ChrystiaFreeland post from earlier. Her insider/outsider account of how we got here (gross income inequality, leading to fascism) is a compelling read. Recommended.
#economy #politics #ChrystiaFreeland #fascism #oligarchy #democracy #books #Canada #Russia #usa #ukraine
