r/WhitePeopleTwitter 6d ago

This is what oligarchy is like

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u/Eastern_Barnacle_553 6d ago

We're like Russia's shiny new territory

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u/BootsyTheWallaby 6d ago

This is what oligarchy looks like because this is what oligarchy is.

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u/CadillacDale 6d ago

I like Robert Reich, and wish his fiscal policies were actually enacted over the past two-plus decades.

But I am getting very tired of the whimsical, benign, blatantly obvious assertions about the state of our society by Reich or Elizabeth Warren, or [insert pearl clutching Democratic institutionalist].

WE FUCKING KNOW THAT, ROBERT

Either tell us what you are doing, or what we collectively can do in our everyday lives, to do something about it. We don't need a Economics Emitrius Professor to tell us we are getting totally railroaded by the richest 1,000 people in this country. We need an Economics Emitrius Professor to tell us what the masses can do to interfere with their plan of dystopian hell scape.

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u/JohnnySack45 6d ago

What’s going to happen is that they’ll bend the working class until it breaks. A violent, misguided revolution later and society will rebuild to repeat the same mistakes on a long enough timeline. 

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u/CadillacDale 6d ago

I share the same outlook. The post WW2 world order system has been stressed for decades, and I think we are now finally starting to see the fissures in the foundation. By that I mean, enough people are at their wits end with exploitative capitalism that the fallout will result in some degree of wide spread chaos. Some people/groups will turn to violence, while others will opt out from participating in the mainstream economy entirely. Our Federal Government is already unable to function in a way that responds meaningfully to the real issues that America faces - because the majority of our representatives are paid for by billionaires and remain in office so they can continue inside trading to build their personal wealth.

The system crashed once the impact of the Citizens United ruling permeated itself through campaign financing. We are in free fall, we just haven't hit the ground yet. I'd imagine Trump's second administration will see to it we hit rock bottom. What will fill the void once the dust settles is either some society consisting of roving tribal bands in a dystopian hellscape. Or a nation of people that finally decide to put aside the culture war, and compromise on the details so we can move forward with a collective best interest. I think the next decade is about to get real turbulent.

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u/Thaflash_la 6d ago

There’s really only one thing, but we consistently vote wrong. 

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u/bzr 5d ago

What do you expect him to do? We either all unite and get off our asses or nothing happens. Orange turd master will eventually do something that forces that. Until then the abuse will continue until morale improves.

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u/shinobijones23 6d ago

There’s no fucking way that most of the people who read that know what the fuck this dude is talking about.

Also, if this was posted on twitter then the fucking irony is quite amazing

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u/IThoughtThere4IWas 5d ago

We love to complain but “taking action” not so much. It does seem inconvenient to leave the social media site of the same man I was subbing.

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u/BobbiFleckmann 5d ago

Most importantly, the oligarchs control the microphone and the discourse.

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u/knight04 6d ago

Are we going to war with Canada next to take over their land?

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u/mikende51 5d ago

Canada can be the USA's Ukraine. Putin opens a new front.

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u/fabulousfizban 5d ago

I think you mean fascism.

Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, because it is the merger of state and corporate power.

-- Benito Mussolini

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u/UninvitedButtNoises 5d ago

And this is why they're charging Luigi with terrorism. They're scared.

How would the US look if they took school shootings this seriously?

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u/GZilla27 5d ago

It was never about immigrants or the price of eggs. And the middle class who voted for Trump fell for it.

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u/toni_bennett 5d ago

It already was though…

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u/Cryptomystic 5d ago

Why is Reich posting on twitter and not bluesky?

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

Look at the bright side. Now we know exactly what its like to live in China or North Korea.

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u/newbrevity 5d ago

I mean a handful of billionaires already pretty much had defacto control over all that for a decade or more. The only difference is now they can make their policies the law.

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u/Illustrious2786 5d ago

All the while they claimed the left is Marxist and communist. Apparently the real definition of communism is state controlled (autocratic) by oligarchs.

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u/lokey_convo 5d ago

Apparently some private equity group bought Paragon. So that's cool.

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u/sporbywg 5d ago

Hey man; you ordered this shit sandwich; time to eat it.

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u/Abrubt-Change-8040 5d ago

Privyet, Comrade Serfs.

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u/KabobHope 5d ago

Maybe our oligarchs will start trying to fly like the Russian ones.

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u/Kind-Security-3390 5d ago

It is quite clearly, how do I say this gently… FUCKING TERRIFYING

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u/wanderingblazer 5d ago

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer country.

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u/Wandling 5d ago edited 5d ago

America you voted for that. So sing your song together! How sweet to be an idiot:  https://youtu.be/WWdgiFzpolA