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2024-03-13 13:38:40

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@npub1psd…9sr7
The investment in AI isn't for producing content about solar eclipses.
So far, it appears to have 3 main purposes.
1. Wall Street hype for scams, just like cryptocurrency with its national security implications.
2. Wage suppression schemes.
Hedge fund managers like Chris Hohn want tech workers to be paid less, and nothing suppresses wage growth better than mass layoffs.
It also thwarts long overdue unionization drives in tech.
https://fortune.com/2023/01/23/christopher-hohn-rishi-sunak-old-boss-tci-fund-management-letter-to-alphabet-sundar-pichai/amp/
3. Automating ...
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2024-02-19 04:48:46

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1zuy…a7d2
Stephen Harper is in the pocket of the oil interests getting right wing pro-oil anti-democracy parties elected around the globe.
They're bribing Netanyahu into committing genocide over Israeli oil.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/08/06/Harper-Heads-Global-Org-Help-Elect-Right-Wing-Parties/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/16/how-is-the-proposed-ben-gurion-canal-tied-to-israels-gaza-invasion/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/26/how-is-gaza-offshore-gas-development-tied-to-the-israeli-invasion/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/12/israels-war-on-gazas-environment/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/02/icj-on-gaza-acting-against-israel/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/11/israel-gaza-and-the-struggle-for-oil/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/14/pipeline-politics-from-afghanistan-to-gaza/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/12/moscow-and-gaza-is-russia-ready-for-a-major-shift-in-its-middle-east-policy/
Regime changers
https://pressprogress.ca/stephen-harpers-global-alliance-of-conservative-parties-quietly-scrubbed-india-off-its-website/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harper-orban-ties-1.6898904

2024-01-14 07:39:27

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@npub1ddp…2tax
Anyone attempting to interfere with Tim Mellon's fascist activities is risking their lives. And he's not operating alone.
Texas is owned by oligarchs who use the National Guard like a personal private army.
People leaving water for migrants have been arrested, beat up, or shot by private security funded by Tim Dunn, Farris Wilks, and Dan Wilks.
Kelcy Warren, and #KochNetwork are serious about killing migrants to score political points.

2024-01-14 06:05:19

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@npub1u3t…c6ug
The Texas border wall was funded by Tim Mellon.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2021/10/06/scion-of-billionaire-mellon-family-has-paid-for-most-of-texas-governors-border-wall-fund/?sh=4082107f5991
With Republicans, the cruelty is the point.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/06/timothy-mellon-texas-border-wall/
https://www.salon.com/2021/10/06/greg-abbotts-privately-funded-texas-border-wall-bankrolled-almost-entirely-by-one-billionaire/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Mellon

2024-01-10 05:26:34

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@npub1yk6…4zz4
What your photos remind me of is the long history of expensive, glorious, yet doomed edifices, doomed because the money went away.
Instead of gifting an abandoned mall to its community, it's left to decay and crumble apart.
Instead of supporting the next generation of startups & employers, abandoned factories are left for the looters and squatters.
These facilities could have survived intact & been repurposed if their penny-pinching owners had a more generous imagination.

2024-01-02 03:33:52

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@npub1ffl…tv7d
Everyone knew Hitler was batsh*t crazy too but the wealthy still supported Nazism
Everyone knows Trump is Qrazie, yet GOP billionaire donors, foreign & domestic, are still funding him
The populist leader isn't required to be sane. They just have to enact the agenda of bigots as they stride towards permanent power ... and then world war
Remember, Trump sold nuclear secrets
If the GOP regain power, they'll do it again...part out the USA like a stolen car in a chop shop

2023-12-27 00:53:02

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@npub1tzh…sp8m
Nonsense.
The alternative to Biden is someone who wants 167 million women without their civil rights to autonomy & agency.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/18/human-rights-crisis-abortion-united-states-after-dobbs
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/dec/15/neil-gorsuch-us-supreme-court-dobbs-abortion
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/12/26/1221587212/abortion-year-in-review-2023-jane-roe-kate-cox
The alternative to Biden is someone who wants to convert the government into a system of patronage nepotism hires & 54,000 "loyalists"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-allies-vetting-loyalists-2025-1234876512/
The alternative to Biden is a political party funded by fossil fuel fascists preparing to fry the planet
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4354654-republicans-cop28-climate-summit-environmnetal-record-fossil-fuels-natural-gas-nuclear-mining/

2023-12-24 00:51:40

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@npub1q8q…uakw
The Republican billionaire donors funding a fascist movement in swing states like Wisconsin.
Diane Hendricks
Marlene Ricketts
Liz Uihlein
Timothy Dunn
David Craig Humphreys
David Herro
Bruce Hendry
Richard Roberts
John Shaffer
Jennifer Pritzker
Jere Fabick
Bernard Marcus
Leonard Blavatnik
Ralph Stayer
Ted Kellner
Thomas William Smith
Robert Rasmus
https://thebadgerproject.org/2019/06/25/the-biggest-donors-to-political-parties-in-wisconsin-in-2018/

2023-11-21 13:53:10

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@npub1psd…9sr7
The coercive aspects of evangelicalism overlap with the growth of anti-democracy movements.

2023-11-21 13:50:02

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Reminder that evangelical Christians hate it when women make decisions. Any decision.
A faith that relies on the involuntary, duress, or coercion isn't a faith. It's a cult.
They prefer hypothetical babies over real ones any day of the week.

2023-11-07 07:02:21

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
Rishi Sunak is taking bribes... ahem... campaign finance from the oil industry. He's also converting oil drilling into an ongoing system of bribery.
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/07/20/the-tory-donor-soviet-born-billionaire-and-fossil-fuel-interests-bankrolling-british-politics/
https://www.ft.com/content/0d647ba7-7cc2-4e34-beb4-85ec33e14122
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/30/tory-partys-35m-dirty-donations-revealed-by-desmog-analysis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/31/dismay-as-rishi-sunak-vows-to-max-out-uk-fossil-fuel-reserves

2023-11-03 14:23:32

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Culture wars are a component of a blameshifting strategy.
It's a malign influence campaign to distract from real issues like war, climate change, coups, and billionaire-funded anti-democracy movements.
Culture wars buy the votes of bigots.
Pandering to homophobes bought the evangelicals vote
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-is-the-gop-escalating-attacks-on-trans-rights-experts-say-the-goal-is-to-make-sure-evangelicals-vote
Pandering to misogynist billionaires bought their donations
https://msmagazine.com/2023/04/11/anti-abortion-groups-era-equal-rights-amendment/
Pandering to xenophobes got the #brexit boondoggle
https://www.vox.com/2016/6/25/12029786/brexit-uk-eu-immigration-xenophobia

2023-10-27 04:21:06

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
Well..., it is a change from "falling out of windows", like in Russia.
This is what the American billionaires funding an anti-democracy movement fail to realize.
A loss of political favor is possibly a life-ending occurrence.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0147596717300707
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3175925/liao-guoxun-mayor-chinas-port-city-tianjin-dead-59
https://www.wionews.com/world/spate-of-celebrity-deaths-raise-doubt-over-chinas-actual-covid-toll-550094
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-66302235

2023-09-25 00:23:56

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@npub1wky…6c6c
#KochNetwork's funded covid disinformation succeeded beyond all expectation at destabilizing democracy
Using an existing disinformation system for climate denialism & a coup, the switch to a profitable covid malign influence narrative was easily accomplished
They succeeded at reducing women voters to walking wombs without agency or autonomy
They contributed to the deaths of over 1.18 million Americans & disabling millions more
https://fortune.com/2022/03/31/us-companies-record-profits-2021-price-hikes-inflation/
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/profits-and-the-pandemic-as-shareholder-wealth-soared-workers-were-left-behind/

2023-09-10 17:02:34

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@npub1ulm…hweg
The goal of funded trolling is to coattail off a prominent woman's work & amplify their messaging.
Misogynists adore using posts from Kamala Harris or Megan Markle to spread chauvinistic talking points.
Trolls hope to drive prominent women out of public life using sock puppets, pile-ons, & swarming.
It's a coordinated targeted harassment campaign
1. Block & mute
2. Check "followers only settings" on their profile or responses
3. Report the account to moderators
Support women.

2023-09-09 21:23:34

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@npub1jfl…ru8c
The Senate will do something when voters demand they do something.
Republicans are very good at convincing voters they're helpless in the face of treachery, sedition, or public corruption.
As Rachel Maddow and Peter Strzok emphasize, defending the nation, and other democracies, from corrupt Republican billionaires requires a whole-of-society response.
Democrats will act when forced to by society.
The Senate isn't the only avenue.

2023-08-26 10:47:52

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
Exaggeration of the costs of green energy infrastructure is intended to thwart the acceptance of green infrastructure.
Its like how inexpensive-to-manufacture EV are being priced higher than gas powered vehicles.
Ditto for how solar panels, wind turbines, and hydroelectric costs are being inflated.
Greedflation with an agenda. Thwarting the transition away from fossil fuels by making them appear "cheaper" by comparison.

2023-08-24 05:40:30

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
Vivek is as opposed to democracy as Trump or DeSantis and similarly a autocratic wingnut.

2023-08-08 03:45:54

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@npub1ddp…2tax
The Susan Collins re-election was particularly odd.
Her Democrat opponent finished the election with over $14 million left in her campaign coffers unspent.
https://rollcall.com/2020/12/04/gideons-conundrum-what-to-do-with-all-that-extra-money/
I suspect fake Democrats like Andrew Yang, Kristen Sinema, and Joe Manchin are more prevalent than previously suspected.
Better vetting by Democrats is an imperative.

2023-08-08 02:30:32

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@npub1ddp…2tax @npub15qw…3p2z
The fake narratives about ambivalence, sitting out 2024, or not supporting Trump are ubiquitous. Ignore these disinformation campaigns.
What Republican billionaire donors will do is what they did to re-elect Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell.
They flood GOP coffers in the last weeks of the election to evade reporting on campaign finance until after the election.
They know most of their low-information voters ignore campaigns until the last month before election day.

2023-05-10 03:17:04

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@npub1qw2…3t48
MAGA aren't even bothering to hide the racism anymore

2023-04-14 00:12:55

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2/3...
3. There's likely a POC woman who could have launched a real estate empire that puts fascist Blackstone into bankruptcy, but she's paid 54% of a white man so she never qualified for a business loan
4. There's likely a trans teen who could have grown up to invent the next generation of EV battery storage, but Republicans like DeSantis drove them into suicide instead
5. There's likely a neurodivergent girl who could have developed a treatment regimen for borderline ...
3/3

2023-04-14 00:11:14

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#[0] #[1]
The magnitude of wasted human potential that comes from rich people weaponizing bigotry to get tax breaks...
The opportunity costs of bigotry:
1. There's likely a girl being born in Saudi Arabia now who could have grown up to cure cancer. But Saudi colleges have only 25% female students
2. There's likely a migrant teen who could have grown up to launch #[2], but they're working night shifts in a Arkansas meat packing plant instead, as cheap child labor
1/3

2023-04-13 02:51:16

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#[0] #[1]
Stoking hate, scapegoating a minority, and fear mongering is politically & economically useful for people benefitting from inequity.
Suppressing the wages of women, non-Christians, LGBTQ+, immigrants, & POC alone makes the 1% enormously wealthy.
Devaluing the assets, such as homes & businesses, of the same groups impacts intergenerational wealth.