Mastodawn

There’s no reason for higher fuel prices today. The barrels we are sipping from were paid for under the lower rate. The expensive barrels aren’t even here yet. It’s all theft and manipulation. Prices raised because: they can #stoneytakes #oiligarchy #robberbarons

Thor A. Hopland Feb 27

All of this is just a pretext,
but also: a precedent.

The way #progressives can weaponize this is by targeting school books for children that whitewash the #history of #slavery, #colonization, #genocide, the #RobberBarons & texts glorifying the #American #elite.

In a common law system, all this is fair game. I just so happen to think that common law is a rickety Rube Goldberg machine.

A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives
https://bookriot.com/hr7661-book-ban-legislation/

A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives

Hours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide.

BOOK RIOT

alnitak Feb 24

The $35 Trillion Heist
https://youtube.com/shorts/VwrTYz1N7W4?si=9PKCD2Wxe0ul5mjI #UStech #robberbarons

How Big Tech stole $35 Trillion from the public | Yanis Varoufakis

YouTube

Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑Feb 16

It's almost like nothing any billionaire does is in anyone's interest except their own...
#BillionairePirates
#RobberBarons

Spawning Fish Feb 8

“Well Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy?” asked Elizabeth Willing Powel of Benjamin Franklin.
“A republic,” replied Franklin. “If you can keep it.”

#democracy #freedom #trump #robberbarons #oligarchy

https://spawningfish.substack.com/p/the-freedom-twins?r=473d8h

The Freedom Twins

D. Emma Cracy gives birth to two unusual twin boys and the world will be their oyster, or so she thinks.

Spawning Fish Tales

AstroMancer5G (she/her)Dec 16

We don't hate #England enough.

It's basically the #USA of #Europe. A whole country built on some of the worst atrocities in human history.

Literally created the #USA and #Israel, built its #wealth on forced #labor and #land theft, and is turning full #fascist now even under #Labour.

#Enclosures of the #commons, the #Atlantic #SlaveTrade, #financing the US #GildedAge #RobberBarons, the #Bengal famine, the #BalfourDeclaration, #TERFIsland... all England.

Sage 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 🇻🇪 🇺🇦 🇨🇺 🇵🇷 🍉Nov 18

The evil bastard tech aristocrates. They all deserve to go to prison for life.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/12/musk-bloomberg-bezos-americas-aristocracy-of-tech-robber-barons-lives-by-its-own-rules

#aristocrats
#techbillionaires
#techaristocrats
#eviltechbros
#robberbarons

Musk, Bloomberg, Bezos: America's aristocracy of tech robber barons lives by its own rules

Elon Musk’s ‘pedo guy’ trial revealed that supposed equality between billionaires and mere mortals is a fiction

The Guardian

LilMikeSF Nov 2

#OpenAI is different. unlike #RobberBarons of yore, they didn’t #enslave masses, to pick cotton, extract oil or steel. They mined something more diffuse — every thought ever written, every photo ever shared, every line of code ever posted — and turned it into private property.

As #Altman run OpenAI establishes its supposed #charitable arm, the question is does the money these "philanthropists" offer outweigh the permissions we give the system to keep taking?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/openai-just-became-americas-biggest-foundation-now-what-justin-steele-owhoe/ #ArtificialIntelligence #IntellectualProperty

OpenAI Just Became America's Biggest Foundation. Now What?

OpenAI announced this week that their nonprofit now controls a $130 billion stake of the company, one of the largest philanthropic fortunes in America. I spent a decade giving away hundreds of millions in corporate philanthropy.

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