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Nicole Parsons

@marcan

These are the GOP billionaire donors funding a global fascist movement.

The Oil industry & their Wall Street allies.

Koch. Murdoch. Griffin. Uihlein. Schwarzman. Ellison. Thiel. Mercer. Putin. MBS. Deripaska. Marcus. Singer. Mellon. Kelcy Warren. Barre Seid. Tim Dunn. Farris Wilks. Harlan Crow.

texastribune.org/2022/10/18/gr

22 May 2023 at 14:40 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.social
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Jacob the Jacobin๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

@Npars01 @marcan these billionaires are simply trying to preserve hypercapitalism by destroying our atmosphere and our food for profits and using the funds to support a fascist political project to prevent the proletariat from waging class war.

22 May 2023 at 14:54 | Open on tech.lgbt
Piousunyn

@jacobrogers256 @Npars01 @marcan

Fascism requires compliance, MAGA worshipping seems a start. Apathy and ignorance are part of the wholesale disregard for the world and society.

22 May 2023 at 15:07 | Open on universeodon.com
Nicole Parsons

@Piousunyn @jacobrogers256 @marcan

Fascism requires societal norms that promote:
1. Short term thinking
2. Information bubbles
3. Big Lie propaganda
4. Selfishness
5. Disregard for the common good
6. Privatization of public assets like enclosure acts, public lands, national resources
7. High cost of living so people are too busy surviving to get involved in public policy or voting
8. Sociopathy & anti-social conduct
9. Scapegoating a minority
10. Eroded institutions like education

22 May 2023 at 15:18 | Open on mstdn.social
Jacob the Jacobin๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

@Npars01 @Piousunyn @marcan fascism is the ultimate result of late capitalism.

22 May 2023 at 15:20 | Open on tech.lgbt
Nicole Parsons

@jacobrogers256 @Piousunyn @marcan

The last time the rich had accumulated this much wealth, it took two world wars to wrest control from Gilded Age robber barons & their allies in a fading aristocracy.

The globe couldn't withstand a nuclear version of that past solution.

Reforms are still possible if people vote for the right candidates. Vet thoroughly before supporting anyone.

There's a lot of shams like Kyrsten Sinema and Tricia Cotham.

npr.org/2023/04/05/1168246535/

nytimes.com/2023/05/01/magazin

@jacobrogers256 @Piousunyn @marcan

The last time the rich had accumulated this much wealth, it took two world wars to wrest control from Gilded Age robber barons & their allies in a fading aristocracy.

The globe couldn't withstand a nuclear version of that past solution.

Reforms are still possible if people vote for the right candidates. Vet thoroughly before supporting anyone.

22 May 2023 at 15:29 | Open on mstdn.social
Piousunyn

@Npars01 enima an@jacobrogers256@tech.lgbt @marcan

Vetting politicians is almost an impossible task. Santos for example part of the whole Republican iceberg, Sinema and Manchin tips of the Democrat Party. Iceberg?

Damn, apathy must be pleasant

22 May 2023 at 15:38 | Open on universeodon.com
Piousunyn

@Npars01 @jacobrogers256 @marcan

Sorry, I refuse to pay for NYT anything, amusing when I can read Fox for free?

22 May 2023 at 15:44 | Open on universeodon.com
Jacob the Jacobin๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
Nicole Parsons

@Piousunyn @jacobrogers256 @marcan

Get a public library card.

Most paywalled material is available for free via your public library.

Mine uses PressReader to view NYT.

Now you know why Republicans and Tories defund public libraries.

Systems of exploitation require information asymmetry. ie where the rich know and no one else does. Information is deliberately withheld to strengthen the 1%.

Know the enemy.

22 May 2023 at 15:51 | Open on mstdn.social
Piousunyn

@Npars01 @jacobrogers256 @marcan

Will check it out, thanks again. Have not been to the library in years.

22 May 2023 at 15:54 | Open on universeodon.com
Nicole Parsons

@Piousunyn @jacobrogers256 @marcan

Don't need to go to a library in person. Usually.

You can obtain a library card by phone, internet, job, or school.

22 May 2023 at 15:56 | Open on mstdn.social
Piousunyn

@Npars01 @jacobrogers256 @marcan

Owners guide to fascism

Thanks.

Over the years, the above list has been promted
propagated and become real. Lots to address here!

22 May 2023 at 15:26 | Open on universeodon.com
Shar_shar

@jacobrogers256
Good job. I think you have covered it. The greed of the .01% will kill the remaining 99.99% of the world population

22 May 2023 at 15:08 | Open on mstdn.social
Piousunyn

@Npars01 @marcan

The fact Congress persons become millionaires after a few terms should be seen as a red light in the US. Citizens United needs to end.

Fascist Globalism needs address also, how does one address ludicrous inequalitys of wealth world wide ?

22 May 2023 at 15:02 | Open on universeodon.com
Nicole Parsons

@Piousunyn @marcan

How:
1. International tax treaties
2. End tax havens
3. Financial services regulation
4. Anti-trust law
5. Estate taxes on inherited wealth
7. Tax reform. Dividends taxed the same as employment income.
8. End Citizens United
9. Enact Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's DISCLOSE Act
10. Enact Tom Malinowski's anti-corruption & money laundering laws
11. End stock buybacks
12. Don't buy from their companies. Or buy less from their companies.
Hobby Lobby. ExxonMobil. Home Depot. Uline.

22 May 2023 at 15:12 | Open on mstdn.social
Piousunyn

@Npars01 @marcan

Thank you for the comprehensive list of what needs addressing to end corruption of bribes and graft in the US, probably in other countries also.

Will keep ๐Ÿ’ฏ this list.

#corruption #graft #bribes #politics #USA #Citizensunited

22 May 2023 at 15:20 | Open on universeodon.com
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