It comes to something when a billionaire openly says "I bought this win for the President" and no-one seems to think maybe that should be illegal? This is just curtain twitching on a global scale, giggling on gossip while the real issues are ignored. - ThreadSky

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thedicemechanic.bsky.social • 11 days ago

It comes to something when a billionaire openly says "I bought this win for the President" and no-one seems to think maybe that should be illegal?

This is just curtain twitching on a global scale, giggling on gossip while the real issues are ignored.

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fabiovol.bsky.social•11 days ago

Another 3.5 years before the Americans will wake up to their nightmares.

mattaccount.bsky.social•10 days ago

Nah, it's the classic American tale of guy who has nothing but inherited blood mine wealth, whose family flees prosecution under anti-apartheid laws, only several decades later to spend a quarter of a billion dollars to buy a major national election

What's not to love

primevalfantasy.bsky.social•10 days ago

It's now undeniable that we're all in a plutocracy, certainly true for the past 100 years, & perhaps for the past 5,000.

thedicemechanic.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yes, always true to a lesser or greater extent - but where once, people cared about constitutional safeguards to reduce their influence, now people just shrug and don't give a damn as long as they can browse stolen naked photos of celebrities on their hand-held advert tracking devices

primevalfantasy.bsky.social•10 days ago

Skynet will save us.

spezbaby.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's pretty clear there is no one capable of making that happen.

thedicemechanic.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's less about who can make it happen, and more that most people are happiest twitching their curtains and gossiping about people, because systemic change is just too complicated

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