US President Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation to deliver stark warnings about an “oligarchy” of ultra-wealthy individuals and a “tech-industrial complex” that infringes on Americans’ rights and threatens the future of democracy in the nation.

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  • @TallonMetroid
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    512 days ago

    If Biden really was worried about democracy he had 6 months of Roberts approved blanket immunity to actually do something about it.

    • @itsathursday
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      142 days ago

      Can’t burn those sweet appearance fee bridges that await him by ruffling too many people the wrong way.

      • @[email protected]
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        122 days ago

        He’s only got a couple of years left, he could just live off an advance on a memoir if he was broke (which he isn’t).

        • @SoftTeeth
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          52 days ago

          He supported the rich because he is one of them, not because he is being extorted.

  • Destide
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    622 days ago

    The whole speech was here’s everything I was aware of but didn’t address

    • murmelade
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      82 days ago

      “Here’s all the cool stuff we politicians can do. Suck it. Bye!”

    • @SoftTeeth
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      12 days ago

      This was Biden announcing to his rich donors that he followed through on his promise that “nothing will fundamentally change”

  • @Weslee
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    402 days ago

    Shame he didn’t do anything about it while he had the chance. What is it with us presidents and doing nothing about the important issues, and only bringing them up on their last day.

    • @WhatAmLemmy
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      52 days ago

      Just a heavily self propagandized corporate dictatorship, doing corporate dictatorship things, because it’s a corporate dictatorship.

      No politician can topple the power of hundreds of corporations, and the armies they employ, backed by trillions of dollars in capital… no matter how hard they want to, even if they wanted to. All they can do is virtue signal.

  • atro_city
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    222 days ago

    “And I did nothing about it. Worse, I helped get more into office!”

    • @chaogomu
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      152 days ago

      Eisenhower, like Biden, actually helped create the problem.

      Biden could have, and should have, gone hard against Trump and his fellow insurrectionists.

      Instead he chose to appoint Merrick Garland, a man whose legacy was turning a blind eye to Timothy McVeigh’s accomplices in the wider Militia Movement.

  • @CptInsane0
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    72 days ago

    We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.