JemmyOcasio-Cortez Denounces Musk-Led Attacks on Agencies as 'A Plutocratic Coup'
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I recommend for anyone to watch this video. Goes over why everything is being sabotaged. https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
Holy fuck. That’s so much worse.
Mhmmm, Yarvin, or how he was referred to in right wing circles "Mencius Moldbug" has been a horrible influence on US politics.
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leadoreWhy yes, I do think everyone has given up. So can you please DO SOMETHING. If Congress can't do anything, who can? SCOTUS can't do anything until someone brings a case before it. Can you please do that? If AOC and/or Bernie won't do it I don't know who will.
The President has the power.
The founding fathers just didn't expect someone to actually do it
They just figured if someone did what he has done the Senate wouldn't placate it and would have thrown him out when impeached. Also they probably figured an angry mob would drag the person into the streets and execute them for doing such. The founding fathers didn't create the secret service, they came about 90 years later or so.
Americans seem to have this image of the founding fathers as enlightened beings who came up with a perfect system made to keep working centuries in the future.
They just made what they thought best at the time. They couldn't possibly have predicted what the US and the rest of the world would be like in a hundred years. Times change, and rules must change with them
Well they wanted it updated and possibly completely replaced every 20 years or so.
Shit this is at the Jefferson Memorial
The president can be impeached. Every Republican, at every level, is actively supporting the Nazis.
The other two branches are supposed to act as a check but they've not only abdicated their responsibility but fallen in line behind the dictator. All of this could have been avoided if they had convicted trump in either the first or second impeachment, which would have prevented him from running again.
Why people think, corrupt rich elected officials, care about what would happen to the US?
If there is the smallest chance of a civil war or someone coming after their money, the can fly to another country with wealth enough for a few generations.
Actually freedom fighters should quickly start organizing a new party that is not compromised so they can fight the establishment. The establishment that created two corrupt parties competing to steal tax payer money.
It's easy to make denouncements. Come back when you have some actionable plan for stopping this bullshit.
There are very few people I feel are on the right side of all this. She is not the enemy. There are no magic bullets. Short of having a majority of elected officials like her, there is only one solution and we all know and fear what it is.
Hell yeah, AOC. Get fucking loud.
I absolutely support her in this but we also need some Democrats to yell this in a format for the casual crowd. Most Americans probably do not really know what a plutocrat is. It hurts to dumb down but it worked for MAGA...
There are differences between dumbing down so most people understand something and dumbing down in the way they do for MAGA etc. They aren't explaining things in simpler words. They just are dumb, unable to grasp things that might need dumbing down and shouting those things, often even trying to use smarter words but mostly failing completely at pronouncing, spelling and understanding those words.
It's never bad to explain any word many don't understand or having an easier to understand version if possible.
Its important you organize us too, AOC. There are plenty of us just needing a rallying cry. We dont have the luxury of time.
She can't do it alone. People need to get off their arse and organize.
It's happening right now. A lot of the comments I've seen regarding these efforts have been overly critical and dismissive all while still complaining nothing is being done.
https://50501movement.carrd.co/
Age old scenario that's happened more than often in the past.
Autocrats, plutocrats and authoritarians are knocking at the door and breaking it down .... while the poor try to hold them back and the rich and wealthy let them in because they believe it will enrich them.
Yes, they are following the Fascism for racists 101 playbook. Welcome to fascism in America.
The guy practically has an all access pass to govt data. How is this not a gigantic conflict of interest?
It's not a "conflict of interest". It's violating the basic human rights and civil liberties of every US citizen. Their right to privacy, along with all their data, is supposed to be protected, but has been sold directly to a criminally corrupt oligarch who will weaponize it against them... An oligarch who probably couldn't even pass a legitimate, independent psych eval, background check, or security clearance.
No-one in the history of the world has had this type of direct access into every government system. I'm not even sure the NSA, or any "intelligence agency" does, as direct access laterally across all these systems is a critical attack vector of national security that could basically cripple the economy, military, country, etc if it got into the wrong hands.
You're kidding, right? US citizens never had a right to privacy. They barely have any rights compared to other civilized countries
But Pluto's not even a real planet!
It's like a dwarfcratacy at this point.
Republicans, probably: hur dur al-mex-andria cortez thinks elons from pluto
Spend some of that hard-earned money on guns and ammo to defend yourselves.
What money?
Credit cards are free money. Who's gonna collect when the collapse comes?
Even if the collapse doesn't happen, it's way harder for them to collect if you have a bunch of guns. Win/win situation.
So that means she's going to start a new party right?
Talk is cheap. DO SOMETHING.
don't give a fuck about angry tweets
Organization starts with getting a message out and gaining support. This is a start, and I’ll hope for the follow through since options are running short.
So she's getting the message out about elon...on a website owned by elon...
The DNC isnt getting my vote again until congress starts to resemble the South Korean parliament. I'd
pay good fucking moneydonate to see AOC punch MTG straight in the face.All of the major media and communication platforms are owned by the oligarchs that have already kissed the ring. So you either target a much smaller number of people, or you use less than ideal means to communicate with the masses.
I do think that people in her position need to start advocating for a movement away from traditional social media, and towards things like the fediverse. Who even knows if she is aware of the alternatives. They aren’t well known.
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Best start believing in plutocracies gurl, you've been in one yer whole life