Now *that* is just such an apt description of the current #US situation, Vee.
There is one big thing missing, though: the tsunami that is about to hit the #plutocrats in the lifeboat, be it through global warming, nuclear warfare, or a financial meltdown once the greenback loses its reserve-currency status altogether.
The level of public debt is, in comparison to other Western OECD countries, simple unsustainable.
As Elon Musk became one of Donald J. Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency, he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to people familiar with his activities.
#Trumpism #plutocrats #oligarchs #addiction #ElonMusk #corruption #fraud #legal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html
I wonder why these people aren't being rounded up and deported?
Number of US white nationalist (terrorist) groups falls as extremist views go mainstream
#US #HomeGrownTerrorists #whiteSupremacists #Christofascists #Plutocrats #Kleptocracy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/white-nationalist-hate-extremist-groups
Super-rich guy Nick Hanauer talks inequality and warns plutocrats of pitchforks
#capitalism #revolution #oligarchs #plutocrats #neoliberalism #communism #ted #politics
Complete on Ted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbj6hIOMcSk
When #plutocrats fight each other:
'#Amazon displaying #tariff prices "hostile and political," #WhiteHouse says'
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/tariffs-amazon-prime-day-sellers-report
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich by Chrystia Freeland, 2012
Forget the 1% - it's time to get to grips with the 0.1% ...There has always been some gap between rich and poor, but it has never been wider - and now the rich are getting wealthier at such breakneck speed that the middle classes are being squeezed out.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#inequality
#billionaires
#plutocrats
This sums up the issue, all covered with a stinky veneer of racism.
"by goosing #ignorance and #indecency the #plutocrats can pull con jobs on hateful dimwits to wield power" - @benroyce
"#Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income #Tax on $2 Billion of #US Income in 2024"
https://itep.org/tesla-reported-zero-federal-income-tax-in-2024/
this right here
the root of all of our problems
how a cringe #edgelord icon of #bigotry like #Musk can wield so much power and how our #democracy dies to #plutocracy
well, not the root of all of our problems
the #bigots matter too
by goosing #ignorance and #indecency the #plutocrats can pull con jobs on hateful dimwits to wield power
the #plutocrat-#bigot #political axis
our enemy
Why are (most) governments doing so much to cause a #ClimateCrisis? Why are many people more interested in making #money than making the environment less polluted? (& all the rhetoric that goes with that)
#Putocracy & #plutocrats are the appropriate, general, why that is
In a #plutocracy, the rich use their wealth to influence or control political decisions. This, contrasts with a #democracy, where each person's vote is supposed to count equally
ICE announced it is pausing the hotline where people can call to report undocumented immigrants because 90% of the calls are from people reporting Elon Musk.
i will
#maga and #conservatives are ignorant pieces of shit
#ignorance and #indecency has motivated every single instinct of there's since time immemorial
they are the toilet of #society
nothing but #malice #grief and #suffering for us, including their dimwitted controlled zombies, who don't understand the reasons for their own impoverishment is what they support
and then glee for #bigots, #plutocrats, and #sadists
It was predicted in 2014. And looking at the way people react to Luigi Mangione, I think people really have woken up. #UnitedHealthcare #LuigiMangione #BrianThompson #NickHanauer #pitchforks #plutocrats
According to my #NYC father-in-law, the #NYC mainstream media are, in his words, 'dog shit'.
So keep that in mind, when reading the article mentioned by #StatusCoupNews:
#InsuranceIndustry leaned on #DOJ to take #LuigiMangione case as deterrent 
against supposed 'copykat killers'
#billionaires #plutocrats #DOJsellout #CapitalismAndGovernment #PoliticiansAndBillionaires
#FUCKMerritGarland who couldn't get off his tuches to jail Trump, but has no problem doing billionaires' bidding to make an example out of Luigi Mangione which goes against his duties. That's NOT his job.
@wdlindsy We should stop calling them “elites.” To be elite is to be the most skilled but now means the richest. These corrosive, avaricious, rapacious dangers to democracy & society are #plutocrats & #oligarchs …
Plutocrat: person possessing power or influence solely or mainly due to their wealth.
Oligarch: member of a small group that exercises control over gov’t, esp. for corrupt & selfish purposes.
Elites: A class of people considered superior; the best or most skilled members of a group.
Rich people making poor people poorer so that they can be more wealthy.
it's interesting how the young are very accepting of #violence against the #UnitedHealthcare #CEO
almost as if the generation that came of age after the #SandyHook #school #shooting, when the #Republicans said "fuck you" to their right to live in the face of #gunviolence, the young are returning the favor of the sentiment to the #GOP and #plutocrats
It reminded me of Monazi... Monark
sure but even if the #democrats had the best messaging on the world, the #plutocrats own the #socialmedia channels- the #algorithms
and the structure of #centralized social media itself rewards #troll #brigades
thus, no message in the world can compete in that rigged game
the future is this, right here: #mastodon
of course, it's a pebble next to a mountain
and it needs some more tweaks
but this is where we fight back, with our own channels free of #plutocracy
and it's working like it didn't work in the past
because of this brand new weapon for right wing stupid bullshit:
#centralized social media controlled by #plutocrats to establish a safe haven for #troll brigades to work their indoctrination on fear and hate...
in some ways, this a greater threat to #civilization than #nuclearweapons
stevoo
