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just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Here's what happens when the world's richest man buys the presidency

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Here's what happens when the world's richest man buys the presidency

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just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 months ago
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    deleted by creator

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      France?

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        More recent

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        The adjuster

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        I’m guessing closer to home (something about an oversized apple).

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      He’s aware, that’s why he’s suddenly around his kid all the time he’s in public.

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    Weird faces and hair plugs.

    He is a very weird guy.

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      True - and I think that drove a lot of his early popularity. His entire head is unfortunate and his name seems like a cruel joke. He embraced nerd things that are relative to my interests. Basic empathy and compassion kick in when you see something like that. From a first impression, he just seemed to have been dealt poor hand in life.

      Then he started talking. Damn.

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        Perhaps from a first impression, until you find out that the poor hand he was dealt was an emerald mine inheritance.

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          Right? I think that gave him a reverse Uno card of some kind. Hmmm. That did seem to smooth over some things.

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    The US is already an oligarchy, we’re just getting closer to making it official.

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      My read is slightly different. Yes it’s been that way, but the working class is realizing it doesn’t work for them.

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    Seriously, at what point is it ever enough? In theory, this guy could amass a trillion dollars if he were to compound what he already has.

    But after the first billion, how much more fucking money do you need?

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      I’m pretty sure after you collect more money than you know what to do with, the flunkies you pay to yes-man you and take care of your needs is not enough. You start needing power and being worshiped. You’ve convinced yourself you’re a genius so you ought to be in charge of the universe because you’re so damn brilliant. You have a vision for the world and use your vast amounts of money to position yourself to achieve it. It’s entirely onanistic; you don’t know or care how your vision will actually affect people and economics, because you’re so convinced your plan is perfect - if course it is, it’s yours, right?

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    Why don’t the more powerful demos simply eat the oligarch?

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      Because they are the oligarchy

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    The time for these articles was before the world’s richest man was able to buy the presidency.

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    Paywall

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    “U mad” Ugh I hate humans

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      I’m about ddd mad

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