#plutocrat — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #plutocrat, aggregated by home.social.
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#WordWeavers 13 Antagonist POV: You get the book from question 12 as a gift. Your reaction?
As a #plutocrat #oligarch #billionaire I get Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" as a gift. My reaction - "Meh! Who the hell reads books! What a stupid gift!"
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#PennedPossibilities 752
Tell us about something that will always make your antagonist laugh.What would make a #plutocrat or #oligarch laugh? Pain of others? Isn't cruelty the point for them? Maybe they don't laugh at all like decent people laugh at the usual things. With that level of sociopathy and/or psychopathy maybe humor has no room to exist.
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It would be easy now to say: [[fuck you Musk]], you ethically-retarded #plutocrat.
But it's not even him who is at fault at root. It's #Moloch, as usual, so it's to them that I'm writing an [[open letter]].
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The Meager Agenda of Abundance Liberals
What the Democratic Party’s most buzzed-about policy movement gets right—and wrong.
By Paul Glastris and Nate Weisber
Washington Monthly
@WAMonthly
#Culture #brOligrach #Plutocrat #Corporatocracy #Economics #CritialInfrastructure #Repatriation #Decommdification #Housing #Healthcare #Transportation #Banking
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/23/the-meager-agenda-of-abundance-liberals/ -
#Trump hates this picture and wants it removed. I think it flatters him by de-emphasizing his narcissism, racism, callousness, greed and idiocy.
#JustSharing #MAGA #Racist #Plutocrat #Oligarch #Fascist #Portrait
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Know the difference #Trump #Ukraine #Meme #Humor #MAGA #RussianSympathizer #Traitor #Oligarch #Plutocrat #Fascist
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The Rise of the Selfish Plutocrats
The coronavirus pandemic ushered in even more grotesque inequality. Elon Musk’s net worth surpassed $400 billion. The world’s economies ground to a halt, and public coffers were crushed with debt, but superyacht sales surged by 46 percent. The public, especially the poor, suffered; the rich, like those of G. K. Chesterton’s caricature, escaped.
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SpaceX Booster Catch: $3 BILLION BUSTED!!
#Capitalism #Plutocrat #Kleptocracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75a49S4RTRU -
Meet Tim Dunn: the ultraconservative billionaire pastor spending millions to protect his oil – and elect Trump
> The Texas fossil fuel mogul has poured nearly $30m to drive the state legislature to the far-right, and now the evangelical Christian wants to spread his ideology to the federal government
American #plutocrat
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Wealthy #plutocrat #landlord who enriches himself on the labour of others criticises workers (during a cost of living crisis & housing affordability crisis) for wanting to save money.
Why is this news? Why hasn't the journalist asked some obvious questions to provide a little context for this bear-defecates-in-woods story?
- how much does #Blackstone gain from leeching off the labour of their myriad tenants?
- how much unpaid overtime and other forms of wage theft is facilitated by working from an office?
- are workers more likely to fail to complete their contractual work while working from home, or is this "they don't work as hard" merely a euphemism for the extraction of unpaid extra work?
- how much has the pandemic further shifted power away from workers and towards plutocrats?
- what do the tenants from whom Blackstone extracts its billions think of working from home?
- to what extent is Blackstone a significant contributor to the very housing/cost of living crises that are making the financial situation of workers ever more precarious? -
@swearyanthony I was actually just thinking a few hours before seeing this: "if I were a #billionaire #DirtyEnergy #plutocrat and I wanted to pollute public discourse, wouldn't I want to set up various awards to give my corporate megaphone (#MurdochPress etc) a veneer of 'quality journalism'? Hmmm,I wonder what the history and funding of the Walkleys is?"
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@Hey_Beth @barney @enmodo @Elowen @GreenFire
File this under the #oligarch / #plutocrat plan to get #Trump back into office.
Simply put, #NoLabels is an effort to split the #Biden vote which draws much as it's strength from #independents and #Centrists.
The financiers of No Labels are voting their checkbooks. They have little concern for American #democracy. They believe that they can control Trump. Worked well in #Germany 1932
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Even outside the political stuff, this #timeline is still stretching the bounds of believability. Maybe when the #WGA strike is resolved, we can get a competent #writer to fix all the broken bits.
e.g. even the most diehard, skeptical rationalist can't completely dismiss the possibility that, say, Peter Thiel, or another tech-adjacent #plutocrat, already has one or more #clones on standby as perfect organ donors.
Unlikely? Yes. But not beyond possible.
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Blowing and Sucking at the same time – is his métier.
Obfuscation core to everything he does, is doing and will do in the future (on any planet).
He spews pure #Plutocrat dazzle-camouflage that both tech and mainstream media is now hopelessly addicted to for clicks (way worse than they ever were re: T***p)
"A Brief History of Elon Musk's Twitter U-Turns" | Time
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CW: Fediverse growth: follow more professional culture-shapers (for now)
Want to see the centre of gravity shift away from the #birdsite and onto places that are not run by a #plutocrat? Help to encourage professional culture-shapers who have dipped their toes into the #fediverse to shift their focus over here by following more of them. Even if you don't like particular journalists, artists, activists (and others for whom social media is a core part of their job), follow them now and help more of those who might still be wavering to recognise the scale and potential of spaces that are not the plaything of #billionaires.
You can always unfollow them later.
If you're looking for specific journalists, or just looking to follow a lot of them (for now), then there is a rapidly growing list here: https://www.presscheck.org/.
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CW: Billionaire entitlement and a tiny slice of schadenfreude
If you haven't seen it, here are thousands of #DaveChapelle fans booing #ElonMusk for four minutes straight, while the transphobic millionaire tries to rescue the situation by insulting his audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoNJNuWLU1EAt one point, Chapelle asserts that Musk won't care about the boos because the basic business plan of the Afrikaans #plutocrat is "fuck Earth, I'm leaving anyway". Very true, Dave. But hardly a compliment to your new BFF.
Near the end of the clip Chapelle claims that booing doesn't achieve anything. But it does. After this incident, what are the chances that another entertainer is going to bring this guy on stage now that he's increasingly publicly aligning himself with fascists, white supremacists, reactionaries and anti-scientific conspiracy theorists? Who wants to go down with that ship?
And of course, the account that uploaded this video was banned on the bird site, and those sharing it there are getting posts removed or accounts suspended.
"Free speech absolutist"
"Comedy is now legal"For while, Musk was the joke. But it's well past the point where we ought to laughing about this.
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CW: Climate change, inequality
The #1Percent Are Many Times Worse Than the #Rainforest Wreckers ❧ #CurrentAffairs
"Let’s not permit #plutocrat-pampering pundits and #market-#greed-protecting #media to derail us from what should be the basic task of our #collective #ethical lives—to eradicate, as quickly as possible, all avoidable suffering."
#ClimateChange, #inequality, #rainforests
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/11/the-1-are-many-times-worse-than-the-rainforest-wreckers
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Behold: the Elno #GOP Free Speech Bot-fest-palooza that will spin up untold fresh "the people have spoken" lies from him...
"#Republican and #Democrat follower counts on #Twitter" | FlowingData
https://flowingdata.com/2022/11/29/republican-and-democrat-follower-counts-on-twitter/#TwitterMigration #TwitterExodous
#Democracy #BigTech #USPol #Politics #Data #algorithms #surveillance #plutocrat #fascism #PsyOp #Media
