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AnarchoNinaAnalyzesI think it's pretty telling that while to *some* small degree, corporate for-profit media is willing to acknowledge that "the billionaires" are supporting the Trump-Vance campaign, the actual names and backgrounds of those billionaires are very rarely communicated; with a few notable exceptions at the very top of the supervillain food chain - guys like Elon Musk, and Pete Thiel. As such, and even though it's not really an article, I was pleasantly surprised to find this name and shame list on Common Dreams the other day:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/billionaires-backing-trump
Billionaires for Trump and Vance
"Here they are. They have names. They have billions. And they're the leading American oligarchs backing the ticket that wants to kick the working class and poor people in the face."
As always, I'm not really here to tell you how to vote, or if you even should vote; it's just not what I'm out here to do - even if the author presents this list in the context of why you should vote for Harris-Walz and help Democrats win the House and Senate. That having been said, it is objectively true that an overwhelming percentage of the most horrible rich people in American society, folks I hate with the passion of a thousand suns, all seem to be lining up behind Trump's election campaign and you can pretty much bet your ass it's not because they like ugly red baseball caps; clearly, they expect Trump to protect their power over American life, political or otherwise, and make them even richer than they already are - at your expense.
ChrisO_wiki1/ Two videos have been published by Russian former convicts who signed contracts to fight in Ukraine as part of a 'Storm Z' assault unit. They provide an insight into the units which have been used by the Russians to carry out so-called 'meat assaults'. âŹïž
Jennifer SlackAround 1972 I took an undergraduate college course in Holocaust Literature. At the time I was deeply grateful to live in a country that "would never be" susceptible to Nazi ideology. I now know that everything I learned in that course prepared me to be extremely alarmed about the US Extreme Right. If we do not fight back vigorously, this situation will escalate. And the tools of violence and repression are far more sophisticated now than they were in Nazi German.
Lauren Weinstein***** The Internet age verification nightmare *****
Democrats and Republicans alike, via bipartisan federal legislation, are pushing for an Internet where EVERYONE has to be fully identified via government ID to use social media (and that we can be sure will only be the starting point, expanding to anything "not suitable for children" in short order. And of course, that's what any politician declares it to be).
Despite claimed safeguards, the identify information is bound to be correlated between sites, eliminating any kind of compartmentalization between the different kinds of sites you use. Make a comment on a tech site? Ask a question on a medical site? It will all be brought together into your government profile eventually, because of the government ID requirements. And eventually it will be hacked and leaked.
Many people are missing the insidiousness of these legislative pushes -- a federal one now being heavily promoted in TV ads -- because they usually frame their arguments in terms of requiring parents to give permission for children to use social media, authenticated by government ID proof of age.
But in order to do this, EVERYONE has to be required to use those government IDs for access, even adults who don't have or never have had children. Otherwise, there's no way to prove that any given account creation request isn't being made by a child.
It's bad. Very very bad. And both parties are complicit. -L
Yvette Oswin
petersuber#Louisiana #librarians are getting death threats. When they quit (with reluctance, grief, PTSD), their #libraries can't replace them, because the libraries are still in Louisiana.
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/1192034923/the-plot-thickens-the-battle-over-books-comes-at-a-cost
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/1192034923/the-plot-thickens-the-battle-over-books-comes-at-a-cost
Francisca Sinn19,260,000 voters purged.
19,260,000 .
Plus 17,000,000 .*
Read the whole thing.
Another #MustRead by @ThomHartmann
#Elections #Republicans #Democracy #Fascism
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flexghost.Iâm not sure whatâs more depressing
The fact a Supreme Court justice can be bought so easily
The fact that many people have access to Clarence Thomas on his âpaid vacationsâ
The fact we have to multiply that by at least 38
Or the fact that itâs basically only one news organization thatâs has been investigating this rampant corruption
Clarence Thomasâ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel
The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.
Adrianna TanEvery single âsoftware engineerâ I know who has ever over-valued their own work over blue collar work has, without fail, turned out to be MAGAs or incels. They tend to be the people who have their self worth wrapped up in their compensation and status, and are quick to anger when transit workers or delivery drivers, who work long hours in ways that are taxing in every way, break their narrative for themselves
