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Billionaire Capitalists Like Musk and Thiel Want to Kill Democracy (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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U.S. oligarchs are backing Donald Trump and the neofascists surrounding him in a bid to roll back the clock to the Gilded Age.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That sounds about right.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.

-Joseph Stalin

[–] phoenixz 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm not so sure if he's the right person to quote here has he has well over 6 million people killed...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Takes one to know one I guess

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That's just a statistic though, not a tragedy /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

This right here is why lemmy will never take off as a platform.