@anneapplebaum
Tom Nichols is always worth reading.

The filthy rich have converted greed from a cardinal sin into a sacrament.
Republicans need to be pulverized at the polls in November. Simply losing will not be sufficient to make a lasting impression.

#TheFilthyRich #Republicans #MAGA #DonaldTrump #WeirdDonald #avarice #USpolitics #Election2024 #TomNichols

Couch-loving Republican JD Vance's patron is broligarch Peter Thiel. He's nostalgic for the 1920s whose unregulated banks triggered the Great Depression. One thing he doesn't like about then is that women nationally had the right to vote for the first time that whole decade.
He's an anti-democracy extremist motivated by avarice and autocratic lust.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/jd-vance-women-weird-voting-peter-thiel.html

#JDVance #PeterThiel #avarice #Republicans #broligarchs #TheFilthyRich #TheRightToVote #Election2024 #USPolitics

Vance Nomination Reignites Age-Old Question of Whether Women Should Be Allowed to Vote

His biggest donor once said women’s suffrage was bad for America. Let’s check the evidence.

Slate

@[email protected] @samiamsam
They use "lickspittle" a lot on House of the Dragon. That's good for Thiel if anybody tires of bootlicker.
Speaking of HotD, Thiel reminds me of how Aemond Targaryen has become more blatantly autocratic in the past 2 or 3 episodes.
Anyway.. If Trump loses then so do Thiel and Musk.

#PeterThiel #TechOligarchs #SelfHating #TheFilthyRich #HouseOfTheDragon #AemondTargaryen #Election2024

There's an article at The Atlantic which will probably be thought of as one of the best journalistic essays of 2024. It's by Adrienne LaFrance and is about our too-powerful tech overlords.
It's behind a paywall, but below is a good snippet. (fair use!)
Silicon Valley monopolies need to be broken up like Standard Oil and AT&T.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/

#technoauthoritarianism #bigtech #elonmusk #markzuckerberg #thefilthyrich #SiliconValley #AdrienneLaFrance #MarcAndreessen #Election2024

The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism

Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.

The Atlantic