• @Xanthobilly
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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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        372 months ago

        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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            62 months ago

            I forgot another question: Who starts it

            • @[email protected]
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              62 months ago

              The capital owners started it in the 1970s when real wage growth flatlined, but worker productivity continued to rise at the same pace it always has. That was when they began taking everything for themselves and when we the people were left without a choice, because both mainstream political parties are complicit in this monumental theft of life and liberty.

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      172 months ago

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