I'm in Australia. We're not British. But there are still attachments for some of us.
And hearing of dieing people being shoddily provided for speaks of brutal elitism by the ruling class.
At some point in our Sapiens past, "elite" thinking once encapsulated things like the simple concept of saving some grain for next spring instead of eating it all now.
#AntiEliteism then has probably either run its course, or been obviated by #elitism itself — when AI begins to call shots that we no longer comprehend.
Magic has its new dawn, so to speak.
#Grotesque #gauche #plutocracy
In Trump’s remake of the #WhiteHouse, the #RoseGarden is now the #RoseGardenClub, with the iconic lawn outside the Oval Office transformed into a #taxpayer-supported imitation of the patio at #MaraLago….
#Trump debuted the name during his first formal dinner there this month & has included it on his official public schedule. He’s set to host another event Wednesday evening w/members of his Cabinet & senior staff….
#billionaire #elitism
https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-rose-garden-club-e862eba55133195f0297c3595ba4122f?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-24-At+1600+Pennsylvania
Washington's hottest new club has everything: Cabinet secretaries, a new stone patio, meals from the White House kitchen and even a playlist curated by President Donald Trump. But good luck getting on the guest list. So far, only some of the Republican president's political allies and business executives have been invited. The White House Rose Garden is now the Rose Garden Club. Trump has turned the lawn outside the Oval Office into a taxpayer-supported imitation of the patio at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump debuted the Rose Garden Club name during a dinner there earlier this month and is hosting another event there on Wednesday.
‘Privately educated tighten their grip on Britain’s most powerful roles’ - Sutton Trust, Elitist Britain 2025
https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/elitist-britain-2025/
Sad to see little has changed since the #SuttonTrust's first Elitist Britain report back in 2019; let alone since 2021 when A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works In Elitist Britain was published:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/
‘The most powerful and influential people in the UK remain 5 times more likely to have attended a fee-paying school than the general population. Members of this leadership elite are also twice as likely to go to #university over five times more likely to have gone to a #RussellGroup university and 21 times more likely to have gone to #Oxford or #Cambridge than the general population. Just 7% of the general population attends #privateschools
In a two-tiered system of justice and the legal immunity that we seem to afford the nation's elite, crimes are committed at every level of society. The issue isn't that elites commit more crimes, it's that they're often shielded from consequences when they do.
If someone steals a loaf of bread to feed themselves, they'll be prosecuted, but billion-dollar crypto scams involving celebrities or political insiders are routinely ignored by the legal system; and because those with wealth and influence have greater reach, the harm that they cause can ripple far beyond their immediate circles, affecting everyone.
#injustice #crimes #legal_system #wealth #justice #elitism #consequences #crypto_scams #celebrities #politicians #political_insiders
If DEI is supposedly such an issue due to pandering to small minority groups, then we should agree to make it even by not pandering to the elites. The elites are also a small minority group, remember that.
#dei #minority #minoritygroups #minoritygroups #elite #elites #elitism #antielitism #nokings #LGBTQ #blacklivesmatter #brownlivesmatter #WomensRights #disabled #neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #adhd #AuDHD #politics #us #usa #uspol #uspolitics #uspoli #political
that bit of scum that floated to the top should not control the whole pond.
#Politics #Power #Sociopaths #Elitism #Oligarchy #Plutocracy #Compassion #Empathy #Cruelty #ClassWar #Representation #Tyranny #PoliticalInequality #DirectDemocracy #PoliticalEquality
Carr's proposal, which was released on Thursday & is scheduled for a vote on August 7, criticized the previous administration's approach. Carr intends to focus the next #FCC inquiry on the statute's "is being deployed" phrase rather than looking at whether broadband has already been deployed. Carr's proposal said: [pic]
#law #DigitalDivide #Classism #Elitism #Telecommunications #AccessInequity #ServiceInquality #EconomicDisparity #EconomicInequity #SocialDiscrimination
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