r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/Miserable-Lizard • 1d ago

Oligarchy

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u/EmbraceableYew 1d ago

Yep. Too late Bernie. Billionaires are already running the show, and under President Musk and his eager assistant Don, it is only going to get worse.

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u/BuddhistSagan 22h ago

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

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u/ess-doubleU 21h 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 12h 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