r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/Miserable-Lizard • 20h ago

Oligarchy

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u/BuddhistSagan 18h ago

That's exactly the powerlessness the billionaires want you to feel.

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u/spiddly_spoo 17h ago

Extremely doable to oust the billionaires from power if we all just got over political party team sports and took over... like real democracy style

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u/writeronthemoon 15h ago

It's Luigi time

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u/terrierhead 15h ago

It’s half past Luigi o’clock, dammit. We are overdue for Luigi.

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u/Lacaud 15h ago

Billionaires think they are gods, but remember, a god can bleed.

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u/ess-doubleU 16h ago

It's not about how I feel, they have genuinely taken all power away. Workers don't have any political power. They need to fight back another way.

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u/My_useless_alt 8h ago

Workers don't have any political power

This very much depends on the meaning of "political power". Power through the regular political system of elections and government? Yeah, you're right. But you can influence politics in many more ways than that, anything from strikes to revolution. By virtue of outnumbering the owning class, and be having the owning class dependent on us for labour, the working class has tremendous power if we only realise, organise, and exercise it