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Simultaneous purging of the chief generals of all three branches.
They are ensuring the military has no cohesiveness to stage a future coup against the Executive Branch, and are replacing all control with their own loyalists.
It’s being funded by the Oligarchs, why would they want to stop it?
Oligarchs are not unified. Some companies are heavily disaffected like pharmaceuticals thanks to RFK. Tariffs will also hurt most businesses’ bottomline. Trump’s policies only benefit certain oligarchs (tech companies and Musk) so the other oligarchs who get pissed off will band together to support someone friendlier.
The oncoming recession is going to hurt most businesses.
But not the owners. They’ll be able to buy up those tasty, cheap stocks.
Exactly. In every crisis, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Out of the last several financial crises, who’s come out for the better? All I see is the widening of the gap between rich and poor.
Makes me wonder about the rhetoric against violence and how ‘we need to be above that’. Where has that message come from?
Two places:
1: We are supposed to be nice people. 2: The wealthy are evil, and want people to be too gentle to resist.
The rich amplify the ‘kind’ part of protests (MLK), while trying to stifle the ‘harsh’ (Malcom X, Panthers), to ensure that resistance is toothless. IMO, the answer isn’t to ditch ‘kindness’, but rather to understand protest movements as two pieces that work together…
Hammer, and Anvil. One is a promise of unyielding violence if things don’t change, while the other is a solid foundation that offers an alternative. Protestors shouldn’t seek peace at all costs, that isn’t how an effective negotiation works. Power only respects power.
When we protest, the understanding needs to be there that we’ll become militant if they ignore us. If we don’t get our way and just peacefully go home, there’s no point to protest in the first place.
Chaining ourselves to their gates, hunger striking, throwing bricks, burning effigies, etc – these tactics are often decried as not peaceful enough, but they show we’re not going to stop at words. That we’re prepared to escalate. We need to make them afraid. We need to show them if they don’t listen very soon, their heads will literally roll. And then we must be willing to follow through. If we don’t, we may as well start heiling now.
From the same oligarchs who wants people to remain passive.
Where indeed.
And their employees worse.