U.S. oligarchs are backing Donald Trump and the neofascists surrounding him in a bid to roll back the clock to the Gilded Age.

    • @TokenBoomerOPM
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      In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. …The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.

      -Joseph Stalin

      • Phoenixz
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        56 months ago

        Yeah, I’m not so sure if he’s the right person to quote here has he has well over 6 million people killed…

      • @Maalus
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        26 months ago

        This right here is why lemmy will never take off as a platform.

  • @Hobbes_Dent
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    Gilded age. What a bunch of fucking idiots.

    Oligarchs think team fascism is doing the cucking to get in power, will soon be the cucks before being nationalized or shot.

    It’s not like there’s no example out there. Stupids.

    • @GoofSchmoofer
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      86 months ago

      It’s not too much of a reach to see a 2nd trump presidency promoting new laws that look progressive on the surface - higher tax rate on billionaires with the intention of putting himself on the top of the “richest men in America” list. Just takes a a little carve out in the law that presidents (for life) don’t have to pay this new massive tax.

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    Lol Jack Kemp and the Reagan Revolution beat them to that by half a century.

    And Citizens United removed the most transparent of fig leaves from that reality.

  • @[email protected]
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    76 months ago

    The democracy where I get the choices:

    Capitalist who says the N word

    Capitalist who used to say the N word

  • @ccunning
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    56 months ago

    Of course they do. We all get the same number of votes but they get a disproportionate number of dollars.

    • @TokenBoomerOPM
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      26 months ago

      I’m gonna write that one down.

  • @Zehzin
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    46 months ago

    Oligarchs want to do oligarch shit, surprising no one

      • @Zehzin
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        16 months ago

        Robert, have I ever shown you this cool golf club I found?

  • @Dasus
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    36 months ago

    Who’s surprised about this?