Late Stage Capitalism

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[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Sergey Belyakov, Mikhail Fridman, Ivan Glasenberg, Oleg Deripaska, Semion Mogalevich, Dmytro Firtash, & Sergey Naryshkin (allegedly)

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

This is definitely a List Of Guys. But you might want to do some more research. Mikhail Fridman is Ukrainian who has dedicated enormous sums of his own personal fortune to propping up the Ukrainian defense budget. Of course, it's an easy mistake to make. The EU courts had to take him off the sanctions list in 2024 when they found no evidence whatsoever to support claims that he had violated post-war sanctions.

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[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

Was this Epstein consulting Chomsky on methods of improving his public optics and embarking on a PR campaign?

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

That, or just the ramblings of a man coming off a meth high.

Hard pressed to name a celebrity or billionaire who wasn't getting skin pressed by this guy, though. Epstein had his hand in every pot he could reach.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

By putting a mediocre level of effort into paying attention into world events and world politics, and then analyzing those events.

Its miraculous what putting in even a basic level of effort does. I highly recommend.

Here's a visual example that shows how Israel thinks of itself, displaying what I'm talking about (another lemming posted this earlier in the thread, cant for the life of me remember whom):

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (8 children)

Here’s a visual example

Everything Israel does coordinates with Russias goals

:-/

Oh no! What could this mean?!

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago (7 children)

That Putin doesn't like being so short. Or you know, he's really unhappy with not being able to manipulate Obama. Probably short as well.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago (6 children)

Reading this, it's very easy to understand how Trump won.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I mean, I wasn't impressed with Obama, but I did vote against Trump every time. The reason that Trump won is because Americans are terrible at spotting propaganda, are racist, worship the rich, can't tell the difference between tv and reality, and what an instant gratification economy and Trump promised that. They would rather go along with the lie they want to heard rather than the truth they don't want to hear.

Putin and many other people saw they could use Trump to further their ends. That also includes Israel and the billionaire class. A lot of money got pumped into marketing Trump. Putin's been backing Trump since his bankruptcy problems and he was just a way to launder money, but when Trump was slighted by a Black man and decided to run for office, Putin saw an opportunity to divide America. When Trump won, he saw an opportunity to take Ukraine.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Putin and many other people saw they could use Trump to further their ends.

Trump's never been shy about putting himself up for sale. That's the reason Hillary backed him for the GOP primary in '15. She thought he'd be easy to manipulate, then push aside when she was done with him.

Possible that Putin made the same mistake, only to discover the EU could outbid him. Either way, Trump's family has grown fat playing Western Capitalists against Eastern Nationalists.

Putin’s been backing Trump since his bankruptcy problems

Trump's been working the US bankruptcy courts to his favor since the 1970s. And Trump's been trafficking sex workers out of the Eastern Block for his friends in Manhattan since the 1980s.

At every step, liberals turned a blind eye or helped him out.

Until they reaped what they'd sown.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The elites turned a blind eye. The courts saw him as too costly to prosecute fully. But Putin was still a part of this and it's obvious how he benefited. I don't know why you're singling out "liberals".