• AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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    “Thank god Elon Musk bought Twitter, because that’s the only way we would even know what’s in this bill,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) said of Musk’s efforts to kill the bipartisan bill on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

    Are you illiterate? Do you not have staff that can read and summarize the bill for you?

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      Money. Money is why they allowed it. You can trace this all back to the Citizens United decision by the SCOTUS, and beyond. The only way this ends is by reversing that and properly taxing wealth, which won’t happen without a true populist movement. Otherwise, it’ll just be more Adjustors. There is a nonviolent path, but I simply cannot see the wealthy and powerful choosing it.

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        When your economy (and now, political system, and by extension, judiciary) rewards those who are most amoral and ruthless, violence is necessarily the end result. The only questions are when, how bad, for how long, and who wins.

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        They’ll choose the nonviolent path once they’ve had a clear preview of the alternative.

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      Good thing “oligarch” is just used when describing Russian conditions. That would neeeever happen here in the west.

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    Yes, but: Hagerty pushed back on Democrats’ assertions that Musk is pulling Trump’s strings, saying Trump is “clearly the leader” of the Republican Party.

    A good sign of being the leader is constantly having to say you are the leader

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    THE DEEP STATE IS RUNNING AMERICA KAMALA IS CONTROLLING JOE IF KAMALA WINS THE DEEP STATE WILL ACTUALLY CONTROL HER

    I listened to this shit for a decade now they’re literally just doing it openly. Every. Single. Critique. Is. an. Admission. Fuck.