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socialjusticeinamerica · 10 days

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#campaign finance reform #oligarch dark money #Republican Nazi oligarchs #republican billionaires purchased the SCOTUS #illegitimate scotus #republican assholes #never trump #maga morons #traitor trump #crooked donald #republican hypocrisy #corporate greed #republican party #leonard leo #Harlan crow

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republicansaredomesticterrorists · 11 days

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These rotten motherf—kers need to be jailed!

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weirdowithaquill · 7 months

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Sir Topham Hatt is a BILLIONAIRE?!

Ok, so I just discovered this, and I was wondering if anyone else had discovered this - but apparently the Fat Controller is richer than Mr Burns according to Forbes magazine?! And he's worth $2 Billion USD, for his massive railway empire, vintage locomotive collection and real estate holdings.

Ok, I'm sorry - but Sir Topham Hatt is worth more than Rihanna, and to make matters even more interesting - $2 billion is what Forbes pegged his worth at in 2010 (and then continuously to today, where he still is amongst the 15 wealthiest fictional characters according to Forbes).

What's the betting he's worth more now? The Thomas and Friends franchise has made approximately $9.12 billion USD in its lifetime - putting it on par with Jurassic Park, Angry Birds and Dragon Ball in worth, and meaning that the little blue tank engine is worth more than Mario. Are you saying Sir Topham wouldn't have invested in this media juggernaut? Not to mention the fact that as an industrialist and transport tycoon who has a monopoly on transport on and off the famed Island of Sodor, he probably makes a ridiculous amount of money every year from tourism.

And that's before we mention that one little fact that his family is intertwined with all the other major players on the island, including the Earl, the Viscount, the Brown family (Skarloey Railway) and the Croarie family (Anopha Quarry). So the Hatt name has several other prominent families backing it.

Does this make Sodor an oligarchy? The Brown family is a political dynasty with a railway, the Croarie family owns the largest quarry on Sodor (if not possibly England, seeing as its still running, 100 years on), the Norramby family holds an Earldom, the Regaby family is both part of the railway and holds a Viscountcy, and the Hatt family runs a transport empire, which includes all the major ports on the island, as well as holding a Baronetcy.

Um... so Sir Topham Hatt might actually be worth even more than he's listed as owning? Cause I talked about all of this without mentioning the Sodor Aluminium Company, which the NWR owns a sizeable stake in.

The Hatt Family is making bank off mineral wealth, manufacturing, transport, tourism, real estate, generational wealth and tourism. And all this with a vintage fleet of steam engines (which only add to his net worth, due to their rarity and star-value).

So, uh... how do I get in on this?

#railway series #weirdowithaquill #thomas the tank engine #railways #sir topham hatt #Forbes billionaire Sir Topham Hatt #forbes magazine #fictional billionaires' list #rambles #When I woke up today I did not expect to discover that Forbes Magazine rated the Hatt family as one of the richest in the fictional world #Sir Topham Hatt is coming for your money #The Sodor Oligarchs

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scavengedluxury · 9 months

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#the billionaires have been wooed #uk politics #sir kid starver #meltbusters #this newspaper is still owned by a Russian oligarch

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lost-carcosa · 1 year

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elon musk is not playing four dimensional chess.

He’s playing tic-tac-toe. Against himself. And losing.

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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thegoodmorningman · 2 years

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everything is probably fine. just go about your normal life.

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mitchipedia · 2 years

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Peter Thiel's evil, but he's not an "evil genius": How to criticize self-mythologizing villains. Cory Doctorow: “ … just another thin-skinned, greedy bastard who uses his money and power to accumulate more money and power. The rest is just window-dressing.”

#peter thiel #billionaires #oligarchs #cory doctorow

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rederiswrites · 2 years

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You know, when you study pre-Christian northern Europe, periodically human sacrifice will come up. They did it; there’s no real question they did it. I’ve never studied it deliberately but I do know that. The only reason it’s controversial is because a lot of people react with horror to the idea of human sacrifice. Me, I react with scholarly interest, so I don’t really get it anyway. But at some point, I think when someone made a snippy reply on my post about Vikings, it occurred to me that as modern USAmericans, our government routinely engages in highly ritualized killings of select individuals, i.e. the death penalty, so probably we should like, do a little perspective-taking exercise.

#our justified executions vs their human sacrifices #our billionaire philanthropists vs their oligarchs #and so on #death cw

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driftingleft · 2 years

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#drifting left #liberal memes #wealth inequality #capitalism #memes #billionaires #trickle down economics #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #oligarchs

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socialjusticeinamerica · 6 months

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#republican hypocrisy #traitor trump #oligarchs #billionaires #1%#corporate greed #corporate fascists #exploitation

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republicansaredomesticterrorists · 1 month

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Republicans have been re-shaping America since the 60’s to suit their views. They have billionaires pumping unlimited dark money into hundreds of political foundations staffed by right-wing scholars and lawyers. We have a handful of social media bloggers sending warnings into the digital ether.

Educate yourself and educate others. They don’t even need to control Congress or the White House to do this. They’ve been doing this at the state level for decades, long before they purchased the Supreme Court.

#vast right wing conspiracy #oligarchs #fight-wing billionaires #Republican political foundations #dark money #abortion access #reproductive rights #republican assholes #resist #judge shopping

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kaydub80 · 11 months

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Watch "The Third Party Bid That Could Sabotage Trump and Biden" on YouTube

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When we said to overthrow the two-party duopoly, this was not what we were talking about! Astroturfing at its finest.

#this is not a game #2024 election #kyrsten sinema #joe manchin #no labels #wtf is this bullshit #astroturfing #Youtube #billionaire #corporatocracy #oligarchs

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tomorrowusa · 1 year

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Tech oligarchs like Elon Musk are more warped than we can imagine. Among other things, they are actually involved in a type of eugenics.

Then there was the allegation last week by the Insider journalist Julia Black that Musk, along with other billionaires, appear to be engaged in their own personal eugenics programme via a movement called “pronatalism”. Black writes that pronatalism – an ideology centred on having children to reverse falling birthrates in European countries, and prevent a predicted population collapse – is “taking hold in wealthy tech and venture-capitalist circles”, with the aid of hi-tech genetic screening.

Musk has championed pronatalist ideas publicly. Privately the Tesla co-founder is, in his own words, “doing my part”; he has 10 children known to the public, two of whom are twins he fathered with an AI expert who serves as an executive for his Neuralink company. But the ideas go beyond Musk and into the canyons of Silicon Valley; the world’s richest and most powerful people see it as their duty, Black claims, to “replicate themselves as many times as possible”.

When some people become rich, they delude themselves into thinking they are more intelligent than the rest of us.

The bizarre obsession with “population collapse” by Musk and others is an example. What they fail to notice is that wealthier societies have better health and don’t need to reproduce as much because there is a greater likelihood their children will survive to adulthood. India, for example, has been transitioning to a middle income society. As its average income grows, the birth rate is becoming similar to that of Western countries.

As poverty disappears, the human population will level off to a sustainable level. It’s unlimited growth that is the true danger to our species – and the planet itself. As Edward Abbey put it, “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.“

The population won’t “collapse” unless we make it collapse through environmental degradation.

What these narcissistic billionaires, almost all of whom are white, really obsess about is the leveling off of population growth in predominately white countries.

Instead of wasting tons of money on “pronatalism” and genetic engineering, they should be working to eliminate poverty around the world which would equalize the birth rate everywhere. Investing in a better environment is another excellent way to protect the species.

Tech oligarch eugenics is not the only way they are trying to engineer society.

Silicon Valley and its missionary outposts are dominated not only by the pursuit of growth, which is a means to an end. The underlying raison d’etre tying these various tech titans together is their fervour for enacting their own personal theological outlooks in supposed service of the wider world. To do this, they must dominate and monopolise – remake society in their image, platform by integrated platform.

When we view these monoliths as businesses like any other, or allow them to claim global monopolies, we fail to realise that they are competing for more than our attention or our cash: they are competing for the right to dictate what our societies look like. So it matters a great deal when that vision falters, or fails altogether. It’s the stuff of myth and folktale played out via forums and Wall Street Journal tip lines; the emperors slowly shedding their clothes. We are watching would-be gods shrink back to being men once more.

By empowering these wannabe gods we become subject to their manipulation which is motivated by their bizarre fads.

Peter Thiel Wants to Inject Himself With Young People’s Blood

The true danger to our species is to allow it to be controlled by self-obsessed billionaires.

#silicon valley #twitter #tech oligarchs #narcisssism #elon musk #peter thiel #mark zuckerberg #idiot billionaires #population collapse #eugenics #pronatalism #moya lothian-mclean

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katpurrccino · 2 years

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Fr I personally mean no shade or ill will towards anyone who "came back" here, I think its great that people are coming back here from to escape el/o///n. And I got to censor his name bc I fear even saying anything negative about him or his brands directly will get me nuked so, the irony. The memes are just funny and taking something and absolutely running with it is what this place does best

#i never left tumblr so i guess i didnt have to come back really #if elon fucks turns twitter into a capitalist oligarch 1984 style noone can say anything bad about tesla platform im gone 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️#or if he does anything to help crypto chuds in any shape or form basically #im only there bc thats rhe place where my art got any traction. but im irrelevant there too now due to algorithms so ohwell #and bc friends went there...but so many ppl have disappeared and ive become distant bc of uni over the years so ohwell ig #twitter causes me so much stress fr that i basically stopped posting there all together for a good few months #may just keep it for now to keep regularly using it like i do tumblr. post art when i have it. but dont get attached #honestly its a good idea to have a few places to post your art anyways in case of reasons such as a child billionaire buying a platform ..

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teledyn · 2 months

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I wonder what happens to all the stranded serfs, er I mean, paid fed and housed staff, the day the oligarch's finances collapse 🤔

#megabunkers #megabunk #is 'oligarch' just the Russian word for 'billionaire' or is there some essential difference I'm missing?

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