Alex WildAug 16, 2023

It's not that Americans themselves are getting more fascist, more hateful. If anything, Americans are becoming more tolerant.

It's that a small set of extremely rich people is getting bolder about funding extremism, bolder about supporting coups, bolder about buying courts.

Show threadAlex WildAug 16, 2023
Recognize that the Texas oil billionaires are a national security risk, people who are willing to spill a lot of other people's blood to get their way.
Show threadk.v. Aug 16, 2023
@alexwild agreed, and how many are compromised by foreign entities like Russia?
Show threadAlex Wild
@kv None of them are compromised, or need to be compromised. They're like the Saudi elite. They have their own interests and are sitting on massive fossil fuel wealth.
Aug 16, 2023 at 4:20pmWeb