Other dollars go to, purchasing agricultural land, building AI data centers, tacky parties in Venice, and of course purchasing politicians dumb enough to believe they're making bank. (2/2)

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You own a store. A pack of gum gets stolen. Elon fires your store clerk and disconnects the fire alarm, Trump empties your cash register. Your neighbors start going to the store down the street.

Yes, we are the idiots

Or these starving babies in Sudan because of the same actions (3/3)

The bullshit is supposed to distract you from news like this 71-year old who had to die because of Musk and his lollipop gang and their unconstitutional power grab (2/3)

or you spend the rest of your day determining your health coverage, or compile your tax information for a bureaucracy that already has the same info.

But you mustn't stop screaming even if only the void listens.

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And then you close your sources and open up the news to find the executive questioning the separation of powers, , or discover how some people really struggle with the definition of "universal" in "universal human rights,"

(4/5)

Writers with privilege who saw the suffering of the masses and felt themselves disenfranchised even when speaking with enormous privilege.

Louis XVIII did not listen

Nicholas II did not listen

Franz Josef did not listen

(3/5)

Austria-Hungary is incapable of meeting the needs of the time, or how the Ottoman Empire is the sick man on the Bosporus. And you wonder how the people in power did not see what was coming for them and the world around. Intelligent people and academics wrote those texts and analyses.

(2/5)