"How does Elon Musk use the word 'fraud' to dismantle the US federal government?
The term is not as an attempt to describe the world, but to change it. It is a political tool, used by a politician to justify a political action: regime change to oligarchy."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #fraud #firings #workers #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #Medicaid
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"A recent poll suggests that 70% of Americans believe government expenditures are filled with waste, fraud, and inefficiency....
The GOP is now broadly using the fraud trope to justify cutting any popular program. Medicaid is up next."
#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #fraud #firings #workers #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #Medicaid
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"Musk and Trump’s focus on fraud is nothing new. Fraud has always served as a powerful political trope, one that provides a rationale for cutting government. Accusations of fraud were used to discredit Black elected officials during Reconstruction. Ronald Reagan’s Welfare Queen was an especially effective trope directed against poverty-based policies."
~ Pamela Herd and Don Moynihan
#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #fraud #firings #workers #billionaires
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donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mus…
A tired trope gets a new lease of lifePamela Herd (Can We Still Govern?)
"This is not about personal liberties or free markets. It’s about making the Post more amenable to the Trump administration so that Jeff Bezos’s businesses will not be punished."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump #oligarchy
/9
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Liberalism is afraid to take its own side.Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)
"When billionaires take control of our communication channels, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for billionaire babble.
When they talk of 'personal liberties and free markets' they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into greater economic insecurity and fear."
~ Robert Reich
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump #oligarchy
/8
"The Opinions section is being told what their opinions are to be, from now on. And they seem to align with current thinking by the Trump regime’s current scumbag leaders. …
From a very quick survey by me of Wapo staffers: This is the worst thing to happen to The Washington Post ever in its 147 year life, including the Janet Cooke scandal."
~ Gene Weingarten
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump
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"The message could not be clearer: editorial independence is dead at the Washington Post. Opinion editor David Shipley, recognizing this fact, has already resigned rather than oversee this ideological narrowing. ...
Democracy dies in darkness? No, it dies when billionaires decide they want their media properties to serve their personal ideological agendas rather than the public interest."
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump
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"The audacity of claiming that free market ideas are 'underserved' in American media is staggering. Has Bezos somehow missed the existence of The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg, Fox Business, CNBC, and countless other outlets that have spent decades championing free-market capitalism?"
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump
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"In a stunning announcement today, Jeff Bezos declared that The Washington Post's opinion section will now exclusively focus on 'personal liberties and free markets.' …
Today's announcement takes things to an entirely new level of billionaire meddling."
~ Parker Molloy
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump
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With its new "free markets and personal liberties" mandate, democracy dies not in darkness but in billionaire ideologyParker Molloy (The Present Age)
BERNIE SANDERS WARNS U.S. IS BECOMING AN OLIGARCHY
"We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society… We can't go around the world saying, 'in Russia, Putin has an oligarchy.' Well, we got our oligarchy here, too".
#oligarchy #BernieSanders #Russia #Billionaires
rollingstone.com/politics/poli…
Sen. Bernie Sanders said that America is "moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society" where billionaires use government to enrich themselves.Peter Wade (Rolling Stone)
Back in 2021, we launched a series of stories documenting the key ways that the ultrawealthy — #billionaires like #ElonMusk, Jeff Bezos, and Peter Thiel — avoid #taxes. Here are 10 of their strategies.
#Finance #Law #Tech #Journalism
The top tax-avoidance techniques used by billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Steve Ballmer.ProPublica
“Oxfam identified 23 superyachts owned by 18 billionaires and estimates the average annual carbon footprint of each of these yachts to be 5,672 tonnes, which is more than three times the emissions of the #billionaires’ private jets... This is equivalent to 860 years of emissions for the average person in the world, and 5,600 times the average of someone in the global poorest 50%.”
gizmodo.com/billionaires-are-t…
A new study found that half of the world’s carbon emissions come from the richest 10% of people.Matthew Gault (Gizmodo)
Need a brief and accessible explainer about the actual harms of AI?
Show folks this:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM…
@thejuicemedia hitting it out of the park, yet again.
#ai #corporations #corporatocracy #billionaires #climateCrisis #BigTech #SiliconValley
The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative👉 Help us keep Government...YouTube
💾 Trying my hand at some #Agitprop. How does this one look like?
🍝 Mi cimento in poster agitprop, come vi sembra?
Free Speech, Elon Musk Edition
mobile.twitter.com/therecount/…
(Sorry for the repost and the link to hellsite but Nitter wasn’t displaying the video properly.)
“Billionaire philanthrocapitalism will not save us. The Gates Foundation invited me to speak at their annual #Goalkeepers2030 event and I could only show up in that space if I challenged it. Here’s some of what I said…” – Mikaela Loach
nitter.net/mikaelaloach/status…
👏👏👏
#speakingTruthToPower #billionaires #institutionalCorruption
Well, I’ve always said that the only good billionaire is one who gives up being a billionaire so credit where credit is due:
eu.patagonia.com/ie/en/ownersh…
We're standing extractive capitalism on its head in an unprecedented way. Patagonia created a way to lock in its purpose as a company—we’re in business to save our home planet—and unlock more funds for fighting the climate and extinction crisis.eu.patagonia.com
