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Thor A. Hopland<p><a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Policy</span></a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> being captured through <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/lobbying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lobbying</span></a> to promote the will of the investors above the will of the people just makes for <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/privatized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privatized</span></a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a> at this point.</p><p>It's not about democracy or law, but to game it and the constituency along with it in order to inject sweet, sweet <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/capital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capital</span></a> directly into the groin.</p><p>The body harmed being mother <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earth</span></a>, as the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/petroleum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>petroleum</span></a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> industry have so aptly proven. For how many decades have they manipulated narratives to lie about <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a>?</p>
Thor A. Hopland<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@futurebird" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>futurebird</span></a></span> this - so much this. </p><p>I have to tell people that <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/thinktanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thinktanks</span></a>, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/brainrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brainrot</span></a> and advantageous framing is older than the TV, older than the radio.</p><p>The parents of <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberals</span></a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservatives</span></a> were the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/liberalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberalists</span></a>, who were groomed by the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a> and the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/barons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>barons</span></a>.</p><p>Words like <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/freemarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freemarket</span></a> basically translate to markets controlled centrally by a few monopolists in an exploitative <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/RaceToTheBottom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaceToTheBottom</span></a>, where one or several entities become <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/KingOfTheHole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KingOfTheHole</span></a>.</p>
Al<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@augieray" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>augieray</span></a></span> <br>he was on the other side, that is why he aimed at you.</p><p>This is all about distraction, talk about anything but the attack on <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/socialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialSecurity</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicare</span></a>. Those are the last two large piles of money not under direct control of the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a>.</p>
Al<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gwynnion</span></a></span> <br>I look at our political chooses as a good-cop bad-cop scam.<br>They have us debating who the good-cop is and who the bad-cop is while the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a> does away with our <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>.</p><p>They don't care what we talk about as long as no one is talking about their plans to rob <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicare</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/socialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialSecurity</span></a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> system.</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> lawns are a throwback to a desire to ape the practices of European <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a>.</p><p>The suburbs might need to explore subsistence <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/farming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farming</span></a>.</p>
Thor A. Hopland<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friendica.world/profile/yianiris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>yianiris</span></a></span> pure <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/libertarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libertarianism</span></a> results in <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/privatising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privatising</span></a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> via <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/oligopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligopoly</span></a>.</p><p>As a <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>European</span></a> you should read up on the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/barons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>barons</span></a> and the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a>. Note, that whereas some aristocrats were appointed by royalty, others were made noble because they were so "successful" - i.e they were barons sanctioned by the crown.</p><p>The barons who hated the crown? Those were the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/liberalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberalists</span></a>. In essence, people like to forget that part of European history because it doesn't suit their ideology or agenda.</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> now has a badge to enter the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouse</span></a> complex &amp; the NYT reports he is likely to get a West Wing office. Previously, he had been expected to be in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/timocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The symbolism is thunderously loud. Instead of QAnon shaman Jacob Chansley—the spear-carrying, face-painted, bare-chested Trumpster who wore a horned fur hat when he led <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a> rioters into the Capitol &amp; who was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his participation in the assault — <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a>, &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarkZuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarkZuckerberg</span></a> will this time be the iconic figures at the Capitol. </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bourgeoisie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bourgeoisie</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>There can be no mistaking that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> harbors tyrannical impulses &amp; that he desires to consolidate power so he can visit revenge upon his foes &amp; detractors (real &amp; imagined) &amp; provide safe space for his robber-baron allies &amp; grifting cronies. Despite this—or due to this—he is being legitimized by the richest &amp; the most influential Americans.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bourgeoisie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bourgeoisie</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Aristotle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aristotle</span></a> used the term <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> to describe governance by a small, often wealthy or noble group, distinguishing it from <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a>, which he viewed as a more virtuous form of rule.</p><p>Now I remember why I preferred the opinions of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a>.</p><p>1/3</p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>What do you think of this?<br>Link to comment: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@bipartisan/113784175538374428" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@bipartisan/11</span><span class="invisible">3784175538374428</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a></p>
Thor A. Hopland<p>So basically the entirety of <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> is economically in the danger zone. </p><p>All welfare systems are under threat and it won't be blamed on the actual designers, the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberals</span></a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservatives</span></a>, who in league with their American counterpart have been digging a hole to the bottom since the 1950s.</p><p>The result is a future of austerity measures and more misappropriated subsidies for the oligarchs. Common people will have less, rich people will have much more. </p><p>We are creating a private <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a>.</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/X" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>X</span></a> has seen a dramatic exodus of users since <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> took over in 2022, acc/to independent analysts such as Edison Research, which said in March that X’s usage in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> had dropped 30% [not enough] since last year. The investment firm Fidelity this month estimated that X’s value has plunged by about 80% [that’s more like it] since Musk’s takeover.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateMedia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bourgeoisie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bourgeoisie</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaire</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a></p><p>What <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> Really Wants</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/X" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>X</span></a> mogul has long dreamed of redesigning the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>world</span></a> in his own <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extreme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extreme</span></a> image. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> may be his Trojan horse.</p><p>By Franklin Foer</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MaleSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaleSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RulingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RulingClass</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bourgeoisie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bourgeoisie</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aristocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Totalitarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dictator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictator</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/narcissism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>narcissism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/megalomania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>megalomania</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GodComplex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GodComplex</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/douchebags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>douchebags</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/10/donald-trump-is-elon-musks-trojan-horse/680309/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxZZ8Ogad9AfMHJdXRzrhYX8&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/books/archive/</span><span class="invisible">2024/10/donald-trump-is-elon-musks-trojan-horse/680309/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxZZ8Ogad9AfMHJdXRzrhYX8&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>planning a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> fund-raiser in his 21,888-sq-ft home in SF, w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> in attendance. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sacks</span></a> had initially been a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeSantis</span></a> man, squiring the FL gov around <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> in search of donors. He had also thrown fund-raisers for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VivekRamaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VivekRamaswamy</span></a>. But in March, he made the pivot to Trump &amp; seemed poised to become more than just another donor. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a> had served as the intermediary.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RulingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RulingClass</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bourgeoisie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bourgeoisie</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aristocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Totalitarianism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> had finished the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> primary being badly outspent by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a>, &amp; his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> expenses were still a drain on resources. He needed a running mate who could help him raise <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a>. Being so new to politics, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> didn’t seem to offer much help on that front. The party’s new donor class was ready to prove otherwise.<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sacks</span></a>, who once threw a “Let Them Eat Cake” 40th bday party for himself, complete w/18th-cent-style powdered wigs, took the lead</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bourgeoisie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bourgeoisie</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aristocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> didn’t want to publicly endorse <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>; the furthest he would go, he told friends, was an “anti-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> endorsement.” Musk was doing things his own way. He started secretly building his own <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/superPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>superPAC</span></a>.</p><p>By the beginning of the summer, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> Party’s new donor class was moving toward Trump, &amp; they had a new item on their wish list: They wanted him to put one of their own on the ticket.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RulingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RulingClass</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bourgeoisie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bourgeoisie</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aristocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Totalitarianism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>It started w/what <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> described as California’s “fascist” Covid lockdowns, which forced him to temporarily close his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> plants [profits over people], &amp; continued w/his outrage over <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a>’s decision to exclude him from an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EV</span></a> meeting at the WH [vanity]. In 2021, he moved from CA to TX, surrounding himself w/a more <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a> social circle.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RulingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RulingClass</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bourgeoisie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bourgeoisie</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aristocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Totalitarianism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> was one of the last to take a fully reactionary turn. Since his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PayPal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PayPal</span></a> days, he has moved into realms that transcend “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a>” in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> sense, becoming a modern industrialist in the spirit of Henry Ford. But his ties to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> industry &amp; its pro-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/moguls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moguls</span></a> remain strong. He had been on his own *journey* over the last few years, pushed to the right by a confluence of forces.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RulingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RulingClass</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bourgeoisie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bourgeoisie</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aristocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Totalitarianism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“In the matrix of people supporting <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> — a 2-by-2 matrix of ‘Are they purchasable?’ &amp; ‘Can I purchase them?’ — <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harris</span></a> are not purchasable, &amp; Trump is the most purchasable president in our lifetime,” says Reid Hoffman, one of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PayPal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PayPal</span></a>’s early employees &amp; a prominent Democratic donor.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RulingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RulingClass</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bourgeoisie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bourgeoisie</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aristocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Totalitarianism</span></a></p>