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The last four decades have led to the hoarding of resources on a heretofore unimaginable scale by people who have neither baseline respect for human life nor a traditional sense of the future. Their destructive actions have programmed a desperate generation to settle for scraps instead of settling the score.
—Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight
#autocrats #plutocrats #kleptocrats

pluralistic.net/2020/03/14/mas

contains a link to a free audio version of Corey Doctorow's Masque of the Red Death. A story about #plutocrats holing up in a #bunker in the event of civilizational collapse.

Spoiler alert:

It does not end well for them, and that did not even require mobs with pitchforks.

pluralistic.netPluralistic: 14 Mar 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

...well, for me, the situation there is quite unclear - but I guess I see it like this: the fact that some people from "one side of the conflict" would organize terrorist attacks is not, in my opinion, mutually exclusive with the fact that some people from "the other side of the conflict" would organize the murder of civilians as part of a targeted territorial expansion.
After all, even the term terrorism is such a great label - see the saying that:
"Terrorism is the war of the powerless and war is the terrorism of the powerful".
Finaly, I prefer to leave it to people who follow the situation in more detail to argue to the point of blood about who is shedding the blood of the other side more unjustifiably in that area - ideally, of course, people would reject their superior warmongers on both sides.
I was actually most interested in this summary:
"We’re fed mountains of stories by the rich and powerful explaining why things must remain as they are — but they are only stories.
Every #sociopolitical status quo throughout history has had power-serving narratives explaining why things are as they are and justifying why the people in charge live so much more comfortably than the ordinary folks doing the real work in this world. #People used to be told that #kings received their authority directly from God, and were therefore better and more worthy than the unwashed masses. Today we have different rulers with different narratives justifying their rule and explaining why vast inequality is fine and good, but those #narratives are exactly as fictional as the old stories about the divine right of kings.
Today we are trained to believe that the #plutocrats who rule our society attained their vast fortunes through hard work and clever innovation, and are entitled to every penny because they are the most productive members of our society."

caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-is-

Caitlin’s Newsletter · Israel Is Killing Civilians In Gaza On Purpose, And It's Not Even DebatableBy Caitlin Johnstone

#plutocrats #inequality #MinimumWage

"Nick Hanauer is a rich guy, an unrepentant capitalist — and he has something to say to his fellow plutocrats: Wake up! Growing inequality is about to push our societies into conditions resembling pre-revolutionary France. Hear his argument about why a dramatic increase in minimum wage could grow the middle class, deliver economic prosperity ... and prevent a revolution."

youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa

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According to my #NYC father-in-law, the #NYC mainstream media are, in his words, 'dog shit'.

So keep that in mind, when reading the article mentioned by #StatusCoupNews:

nypost.com/2024/12/20/us-news/

#InsuranceIndustry leaned on #DOJ to take #LuigiMangione case as deterrent 🙄 against supposed 'copykat killers'

#billionaires #plutocrats #DOJsellout #CapitalismAndGovernment #PoliticiansAndBillionaires

#FUCKMerritGarland who couldn't get off his tuches to jail Trump, but has no problem doing billionaires' bidding to make an example out of Luigi Mangione which goes against his duties. That's NOT his job.

New York Post · Exclusive | Insurance industry leaned on DOJ to take Luigi Mangione case as deterrent against copycat killers: sourcesBy Joe Marino
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@wdlindsy We should stop calling them “elites.” To be elite is to be the most skilled but now means the richest. These corrosive, avaricious, rapacious dangers to democracy & society are #plutocrats & #oligarchs
Plutocrat: person possessing power or influence solely or mainly due to their wealth.
Oligarch: member of a small group that exercises control over gov’t, esp. for corrupt & selfish purposes.
Elites: A class of people considered superior; the best or most skilled members of a group.