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Tom "Call them Plutocrats" Lum Forest
@tomlumforest.bsky.social
Oregonian
Intelligence is inherent potential. Ignorance is a choice.
Plutocracy: rule by the wealthy

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77 million voters can't have made the wrong choice! 🙄
October 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Exactly: DWISNWID, IGMFU, IOKIYAR
April 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Elon's a classic case of Dunning-Krugerrand.
April 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
As a pedant, I have to point out the irrelevance of intelligence and the salience of knowledge and experience. To be fair, Team DJT doesn't care about that, either.
April 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
For instance, stop saying right wing and say reactionary. Stop saying oligarchy and start saying plutocrat. Reframe and attack.
March 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Reactionaries and plutocrats, led by DJT, have gained power by making foundational Maslowian appeals to fear. I want us to frame our strategy as allaying their targeted fears and evoking countervailing fears. Everything else is a a tactical detail.
March 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
GOP: Geldings On Parade
March 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Triggering - amygdala targeting - is DJT's superpower. I want Dems to build a strategy of allaying the fears he evokes and counter-scaring people. Especially White people. Especially White men.
March 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Magenta paintbrush... purple aster... arnica.. how I've missed you! Looking forward to seeing you again this summer xo
March 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
GOP: Gelding's Own Party
March 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Can I invest in leopard futures?
February 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Thank you very much for saying "plutocrat," Michael! I wish I understood people's aversion to it in favor of the vaguer and weaker "oligarch", since oligarch + billionaire = plutocrat.
January 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I'm guessing you meant "free rein", like reins on horses, though "free reign" like unrestricted monarchy also works.
January 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM