Time for Europe to Use the Nuclear Option: Attack US Patent and Copyright Monopolies

Trump’s push to seize Greenland includes $75 billion in tariffs that hit U.S. consumers, while Europe could respond by targeting U.S. patents.

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I doubt if any1 addressed how angry ppl are with #Apple, #BigTech, #techbillionaires, #techfascism or what a leopard food traitor greedy #TimCook is

#BernieSanders to Rally for #BillionaireTax in #California as #Crypto Industry Joins Newsom in Opposition

“While US billionaires became $1.5 trillion richer last year, the average worker in America has just $955 in retirement savings,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “That’s why I’ll be in LA this week fighting for a #WealthTax on #billionaires.”

Jake Johnson
Feb 18, 2026

Excerpt: "The proposal has also drawn opposition from Democratic California Gov. #GavinNewsom, who has close ties to #SiliconValley elites—some of the most vocal opponents of the state wealth tax plan. (Notably, the billionaire CEO of the most valuable company in the world, #Nvidia, said earlier this year that he is 'perfectly fine' with the proposal as others in his class pumped millions into the effort to defeat it.)"

Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-california-billionaires-tax

#USPol #TaxTheRich #BillionairesTax #PayYourFairShare #TechBillionaires #Technogarchs

Sanders to Rally for Billionaire Tax in California as Crypto Industry Joins Newsom in Opposition | Common Dreams

"While US billionaires became $1.5 trillion richer last year, the average worker in America has just $955 in retirement savings," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "That’s why I’ll be in LA this week fighting for a wealth tax on billionaires."

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How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

talking about the rich buying elections, now it is the crypto bros buying elections!
#crypto, #techbillionaires
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super-pacs-2026-midterms/
Crypto super PACs have hundreds of millions ready to spend on the midterms

With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the crypto industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms in a desperate bid to keep Republicans in control of Congress

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The Secret Alliance Fueling Trump

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I forget that outside the left/tech bubble, people don't know what tech billionaires are about.

I don't think you can truly understand what they're planning without understanding the mental models they have for the world.

There's a combination of geek boy* topics that have formed them:
- Rome and other Imperial histories
- the biographies of "great" Emperors and warmongers
- sci-fi, and sci-fi-leaning spec-fic, in particular the singularity, true AI, and digital surveillance empires (Gibson, Vinge, Doctorow)

They believe that eugenics is good if they're in charge. They want all powerful AI. They think they'll live forever, either with or without a body. They believe society is better when ruled by an elite, all-powerful and extremely intelligent ruler. They think there's something inherently wrong with humans, probably empathy, and that they can fix it.

They are not scared of the new, even if they might get crushed by AI too. They can't help themselves, they need to see what happens on the next page.

They want to be Ghengis Kahn with a digitised antebellum slavery eugenics program and a robot butler in space.

Yes, they took the wrong side after reading those stories, and failed to see the warning. But they did read them.

* I love geek boys, I'm not dissing you. Just pointing out the most geek girls didn't get into empires, and most people didn't get into hard SciFi. This combo is specific.

#ai #TechBillionaires #StopTheBillionaires

Edited for typos, as always

You Don't Need Democracy If You Don't Have People: Quinn Slobodian's Warning
#TheNerdReich with #GilDuran
Feb 8, 2026
Will tech billionaires get rid of democracy by getting rid of people?
In this episode of The Nerd Reich, Gil Duran sits down with renowned #historian #QuinnSlobodian ( #Globalists, #Crack-UpCapitalism) to dissect the "ideology of exit." #democracy #siliconvalley #techoligarchs #oligarchs #techbillionaires #epsteinclass
#globalization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ombPdaRd0
The Billionaire Plan to Escape Democracy: Quinn Slobodian on 'Crack-Up Capitalism'

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#Epstein’s #ApartheidIsrael links and everything else ignored by #MainstreamMedia

| #TheListeningPost

(The more they are exposed, the closer they are to prison!)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ5vqgPbeAs

#EpsteinElite #EpsteinFiles #NameNames #tech #BigTech #AhudBarak #Palantir #PeterThiel #techbillionaires #billionairesSUCK #antidemocratic #Greed #JusticeForEpsteinSurvivors

Second story: The bullshit 'ceasefire' in #Gaza and the decreasing coverage of the story by dinosaur media. The killing continues.

#Genocide. Full stop.

#JusticeForPalestine 🇵🇸
#Palestine 🇵🇸

Epstein’s Israel links and everything else ignored by mainstream media | The Listening Post

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