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Degrowth experts: We could provide decent living standards for 8.5 billion people with only 30% of current resource and energy use and have enough left over for science, education, etc.

Billionaires and fascists: Well, how about we reduce the number of people by 70%?

Corporate media: These billionaires propose a bold solution to climate change and overshoot.

/s

#Media #oligarchy #degrowth
#media #oligarchy #degrowth

Robert Reich reminds us that Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg are the three richest people in America; he reminds us of who they are and what they've done; and he concludes,

"The three richest Americans want to decide what the rest of us will know about the coming Trump regime."

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-oligarchy-will-decide-what-truth

How we get rid of the American oligarchy

Friends,
Robert Reich
#trump #musk #oligarchy #republicans #bezos #economicelites #superrich #zuckerberg

"The four oligarchs will be paraded like prized ponies before the American people: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman. Together, those odd, insecure, and hollow men control Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Amazon/Prime, and ChatGPT.

But those oligarchs are not mere fascinators on the cap of the Inauguration: They own Trump."

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg
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#trump #musk #oligarchy #republicans #bezos #economicelites #superrich #zuckerberg

"Four of the world’s richest men will sit on the dais next to Trump's motley cabinet nominees. See Reuters, Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg to attend Trump's inauguration. ('The chief executives of Tesla, Amazon and Meta will be featured prominently at Trump's swearing-in, sitting with the Republican's Cabinet nominees and other elected officials.')"

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg
/5

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/joe-bidens-parting-gift

Joe Biden’s Parting Gift

Janauary 16, 2025
Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)
#trump #musk #oligarchy #republicans #bezos #economicelites #superrich #zuckerberg

"Giving those seats to billionaires signals loudly that this is a new era of oligarchy, without even an attempt to feign allegiance to pre-Trump notions of government for and by the people."

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg
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#trump #musk #oligarchy #republicans #bezos #economicelites #superrich #zuckerberg

"On Tuesday, NBC News reported that tech billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg will all have prominent seats on the platform at Trump's inauguration. The symbolism is unmistakable. Those seats are usually reserved for family members, former presidents, and prominent politicians."

~ Amanda Marcotte

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg
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https://www.salon.com/2025/01/16/tech-billionaires-expose-magas-populism-con-job/

Tech billionaires expose MAGA's "populism" con job

The only thing rich dudebros share with the Republican masses is a longing to use the R-word in public
Salon.com
#trump #musk #oligarchy #republicans #bezos #economicelites #superrich #zuckerberg

“'Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling [or] disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit…. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is the most consequential technology of our time, perhaps of all time.”

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg #Biden
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#trump #musk #biden #oligarchy #republicans #bezos #economicelites #superrich #zuckerberg

“Today an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.”

~ President Biden quoted by Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg #Biden
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-15-2025

January 15, 2025

It is somehow fitting that President Joe Biden’s farewell address to the nation, scheduled for 8:00 Eastern time tonight, was overshadowed today by the dramatic announcement that after months of negotiation backed by the United States and facilitated…
Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
#trump #musk #biden #oligarchy #republicans #bezos #economicelites #superrich #zuckerberg

"#Biden warns ‘#oligarchy is taking shape in America’ in farewell address – live."

Better late than never I suppose.
Fair winds and calm waters sir.
/Salute.
#UnitedStates
#POTUS
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/15/president-biden-farewell-address-speech-updates
#biden #potus #oligarchy #unitedstates

No one will be surprised that the Competition & Market Authority is warning of a continued danger of collusion in procurement processes;

the UK's wide incidence of oligarchic economic sectors was always going to invite both formal & informal collusion;

the Q. is how does the CMA move beyond (more) warnings to enforce measures that challenge & sanction such anti-competitive practices?

Tougher enforcement has been required for some time!

#economics #oligarchy
h/t FT
#economics #oligarchy

“Ann Telnaes, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist for the Washington Post since 2008, quit the paper this week after her editor killed her cartoon depicting WaPo owner Jeff Bezos and other craven billionaires debasing themselves before Donald J. Trump. [please share the cartoon]
Andy Borowitz
[Report]#Politics #americanpolitics #oligarchy #washingtonpost #journalism #politicalcartoons #Censorship #AnnaTelnaes

#journalism #politics #censorship #oligarchy #washingtonpost #americanpolitics #politicalcartoons #annatelnaes

“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.”

Why Ann Telnaes quit her editorial cartoonist job at the Washington Post.

#oligarchy #media #capitulation

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press
Ann Telnaes (Open Windows)
#media #oligarchy #capitulation

The leopard is eating your face - but it didn't start with your eyes so you get to watch!

The CBC headline writer hurt himself pandering to the oligarchy so hard today. Oligarchy need defenders.

#MSM #CBC #Oligarchy
CBC News Edmonton The CEO-to-worker pay gap is still enormous - BUT a new report says it narrowed slightly in 20 #canada's top-paid CEOs made over 200 times more than the average worker in 2023, says a new report — yet the gap between executives and employees narrowed slightly that year, as workers' wages rose and corporate profits declined during the comedown from high inflation.
#cbc #oligarchy #msm

"What makes this a cultural event isn’t that somebody killed a CEO, but that millions of people refused to respond the way they were supposed to respond."

"What happens when the news is no longer a thing that flows from an authority figure’s televised lips the way clean water flows from a faucet, but instead a kind of game you participate in?"

https://howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/luigi-and-the-memes

#luigi #meme #memes #memetics #MediaStudies #oligarchy #media #politics #USpol

Luigi and the memes

beyond rhetorical posting
Aidan Walker (How To Do Things With Memes)
#meme #politics #uspol #media #mediastudies #memes #oligarchy #luigi #memetics

About capitalism

Yogthos

2024-12-31 15:10:53


Oh sure, 20 people holding 10% of a nation’s GDP is completely how a normal, healthy economy functions. Nothing to see here! Totally fine that a handful of individuals control wealth equivalent to the output of millions of workers.

Who needs balance, fairness, or, you know, basic economic sanity when you can have a system that funnels obscene amounts of wealth into the pockets of a few? Absolutely normal, nothing dystopian about this at all!

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/breaking-down-the-wealth-of-americas-top-20-billionaires/

#us #economy #capitalism


#infographics show #Western #american #oligarchy is #money for #Musk #Bezos #Ellison #Zuckerberg #Page #Brin #Ballmer #Huang #Gates #Dell #Walton #Buffet #Bloomberg #Koch etc. #oligarchs and #poverty for #workers
Yogthos

Yogthos (@yogthos@social.marxist.network)

1.52K Posts, 1.34K Following, 4.89K Followers · A sentience trapped in a prison of meat. Made in USSR. Capitalismus delendum est! ☭
Yuggoth
#musk #poverty #workers #money #american #western #infographics #bloomberg #oligarchy #Gates #bezos #oligarchs #koch #zuckerberg #Ellison #Ballmer #Walton #Buffet #Huang #Page #Brin #Dell

#Carter: "He long advocated for #Palestine’s right to statehood, green energy solutions, and universal health care. After the Supreme Court ruled in step with #CitizensUnited in 2014, effectively eliminating caps on campaign donations, Carter described the #UnitedStates as an “#oligarchy with unlimited political bribery.” "
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jimmy-carter-dead-obituary-794884/

Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President, Dead at 100

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at the age of 100.
Ryan Bort (Rolling Stone)
#palestine #oligarchy #unitedstates #citizensunited #carter

“Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero.”
#healthcare #tyranny #plutocracy #oligarchy #capitalism #fascism #LuigiMangione #FightThePower #NYPD #corruption
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/nyregion/luigi-mangione-eric-adams.html
#fascism #capitalism #healthcare #corruption #oligarchy #nypd #tyranny #plutocracy #luigimangione #fightthepower

This is really good. He’s right.

https://youtu.be/X7VpuFlmUqk

#Murphy #oligarchy #FuckTrump

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youtu.be
#oligarchy #fucktrump #murphy

"Amid rhetoric of “America First,” Musk and others will actually use their power to hurt everyday Americans (through cuts, shutdowns, higher drug prices, etc.), while advancing private and their own interests that have nothing to do with (or actually counter) American interests."

~ David Pepper

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

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https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/day-19-welcome-to-the-oligarcy

Day 19: Welcome to the Oligarchy…

…President Musk's Holiday Power Play...and Chaos
David Pepper (Pepperspectives)
#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

“President-elect Donald Trump had dinner Wednesday with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (who owns The Washington Post) at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, and the two were joined by billionaire Elon Musk, a Trump transition team spokesperson confirmed.”

~ Marianne Levine and Meryl Kornfield

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/19/trump-bezos-musk-dinner/
#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

"Welp. This is what the voters chose. Perhaps it’s time for them to find out that elections carry consequences, and bad choices can lead to very bad outcomes."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/showdown-smackdownshutdown?==

Showdown, Smackdown…Shutdown?

A battle within the GOP leads once again to a defeat for Trump and paralysis within the House.
Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

Greg Sargent talks with Paul Waldman, co-author of White Rural Rage, about how the Trump-Musk show is demonstrating that MAGA voters have gotten badly scammed by Trump. The get the culture-war goodies Trump doles out to them, but nothing else — and with Musk running the show, what it's clear they will probably now get is cuts in government programs they rely on to make ends meet.

Hate's satisfying, but you can't eat it.

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

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https://newrepublic.com/article/189598/trump-musk-fiasco-worsens-exposing-badly-maga-voters-got-scammed

Trump-Musk Fiasco Worsens, Exposing How Badly MAGA Voters Got Scammed

As Donald Trump and Elon Musk fuel chaos in the ongoing government-shutdown fight, the author of a book on rural America explains how this fiasco is already revealing how Trump hoodwinked his voters.
The New Republic
#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

But the rich wouldn't be rich if they weren't smarter, better, harder-working than the common lot, right?

Especially rich men, who know how to get things done and don't give a flying f—k about the rules.

That's why I voted for Trump, as a working-class man. He knows how to break things, break rules, get things done. He'll help people like me even if he gives big tax cuts to the super-rich.

Amirite?

/s <!>

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

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#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

"The real story here is that Trump has lost control of the process at what should be his moment of maximum power. As far as I can tell Musk himself didn’t even express an opinion on the vote for the clean up. He’s off to something else. Or he was only there for blowing things up. Putting them back together is someone else’s problem."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

/15

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-shows-trump-that-hes-the-new-chaos-in-town

Musk Shows Trump That He’s the New Chaos in Town

If you haven’t seen the details, the meltdown on Capitol Hill went from bad to worse this evening. Or awesome to awesomer, depending on your perspective.
Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

"The entire ordeal serves as a preview of what Americans should expect from their government for at least the next two years: A pathetic and ineffective legislature will limp along, waiting every moment for its next command from the president and his rich friends."

~ Joe Perticone

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

/14

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/they-like-the-chaos-they-want-the

They Like The Chaos. They Want The Chaos.

This week gave us a preview of the coming Trump presidency. It felt like a horrible rerun of the first.
Joe Perticone (The Bulwark)
#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

"If this is the way Donald Trump and Elon Musk plan on running the government of the United States starting on January 20, then we won’t have a democracy. What we will have is some hybrid of a dictatorship and plutocracy, whereby the elected representatives of the people forfeit their powers and duties to the whims of two people: one who gives the orders, and the other who pays the money that will ensure his orders are carried out."

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

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#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

"This has never before happened in this country. We have never, since our founding nearly 250 years ago, had a situation whereby two men who do not hold elective office are telling those who have been elected what to do, and threatening to oust them from their elected positions in the Congress in two years if they do not follow orders."

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

/12
#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

"This is two men, two billionaires, one real and one self-professed, one of them an immigrant from South Africa, telling the United States Congress what to do about how it funds the government."

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

/11
#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

"After doubling down and calling the funding bill 'unacceptable' and 'a Democrat trap,' Trump called the richest man in the world, the one who paid $250 million to get him elected, and this is what he says he said to him: 'I told him that if he agrees with me, that he could put out a statement,' Trump said.

This seems like an unnecessary point to make, but I’m going to say it anyway:"

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

/10

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/elon-musk-and-donald-trump-have-just

Elon Musk and Donald Trump have just given us a dark glimpse of our future

In short order, it seems, we will learn what kind of country we’re going to have for the next four years.
Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

"Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has thrown her weight behind Senator Rand Paul’s ridiculous proposal that Elon Musk be elected the speaker of the House of Representatives. …

There’s scarcely a better illustration of Greene’s phony brand of populism than her support for installing the world’s richest man to, as she put it, reign in the people’s elected body."

~ Robert McCoy

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

/9

https://newrepublic.com/post/189568/mtg-marjorie-taylor-greene-elon-musk-house-speaker

MTG Suddenly Calls for Elon Musk to Take Over as House Speaker

Republicans’ deranged calls for Elon Musk as House speaker are growing.
The New Republic
#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

"He later became a citizen. Who would have thought that someone who has railed against undocumented immigrants was perhaps one himself, and now could be speaker of the House … the world’s richest person, and answerable to absolutely no one?"

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

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#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

"Who exactly is calling the shots? It doesn’t sound like it’s the president-elect. It does sound like it is the richest man in the world, who paid an enormous amount of money to ride in Donald Trump’s sidecar. …

Several months ago, The Washington Post reported that Musk, who is originally from South Africa, was actually in the U.S. illegally for a time after dropping out of Stanford to start a business."

~ Dan Rather

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 

/7

https://steady.substack.com/p/is-trump-really-calling-the-shots

Is Trump Really Calling the Shots?

Just when you think it can’t get weirder or more dysfunctional …
Dan Rather (Steady)
#trump #elonmusk #oligarchy #economicelites

"To the extent that Musk has more power than Trump, it is because he can fund primary challengers against Republicans who do not surrender to Musk’s demands. Trump cannot make that threat credibly.

And the only reason that Musk has that power is because of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Citizen’s United."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 
#SupremeCourt #CitizensUnited
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/clear-as-mud

Clear as mud.

December 20, 2024
Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)
#trump #elonmusk #supremecourt #oligarchy #citizensunited #economicelites

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