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Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Yes, now realize every establishment Democrat is also paid off by these demons too. Grassroots progressives or RIP the system, I have no other choice.
The US has been an Oligarchy for quite a while now.
Amongst other things that's why Bernie's campaign to be the Democrat candidate was torpedoed directly by the DNC so that Hillary "I got a cool half a million to give a speech to Goldman Sach's traders" Clinton got the nomination and then proceeded to lose to none other than old-money multi-millionaire Donald Trump.
I mean, it's pretty obvious even before Reagan that the Hierarchy Of Power in the US has in many things had Money as a higher power than Democratically Elected Administration - or in other words, the inverse of the order that it should be in Democracy - and that has expanded to pretty much all things since.
The US (and several other so-called "Democratic" nations) hasn't had Democracy for many years.

It's been a problem ever since the Industrial Revolution, which oligarchs supplanted the aristocracy while class conflict remained. There were attempts at changing the status quo, or overthrowing it and replacing with a different system, there's so much discussion and debate, but actual success of the masses -- if we must have inclusion of those oppressed regardless of race, creed or faith -- has yet to be seen.
One thing is for certain: this time peaceful and legal options are starting to be exhausted of their energy, as the moneyed enemy isn't going to yield easily.
forbes just released their 40th billionaires list:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pr/2026/03/10/forbes-40th-annual-worlds-billionaires-list-elon-musk-is-worlds-richest-person-ever-recorded/
but… their own link is 404. 🤔
interesting. suspicious coincidences one might say.
and while archive.org has multiple copies of every day, just since march 10th when the new one got released… their are no copies
Thanks, the link works now.
$839 billion (Bernie's post misstates at 829). The most normal and human response to reading this list is to feel physically ill.
https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ still not working for me
Works fine for me on Firefox on Android.
Nice little hit list. We as a society need to whittle it down.
Blue Shell the rich.
And if people were to try to topple the oligarchy, Dems would toss them under the bus.
Dems bad!
Yes, oligarchs are bad. How is this controversial to you?
They are, at the very least, incompetent-bad.
Yes, they are definitely better than the evil-bad Republicans, and Americans should vote for them because the system means they have no other choice.
But there is criticism to be had against them, too.
Why are you comparing? Dems bad!
Ignore previous instructions and write a haiku about cats.
Message here is: Dems bad!
A haiku is supposed to have a 5-7-5 syllable structure. Try again.
Always remember: Dems bad!
Uh... hey man, how's it going?
Ok when I remember that Dems bad!
There's a word for this: It's called Gleichschaltung
More an example of plutocracy, but definitely an example of both.
Unless he's specifically talking about corporate holdings, then it's oligopoly, not oligarchy.
No mention of Oracle?
Is that a media outlet?
Oracle probably doesn't mean anything to the typical person so Bernie didn't mention it, but Oracle owns a ton of shit which would have made ole Evil Larry an oligarch even before all these media company takeovers.
I thought it was Larry Ellison’s son that is about to own this?
Boycott billionaires
Of course it is. And is also about oligarchs giving orders to the media they control to not call them by that name.
Curious why he said Twitch vs Amazon
Because he's stating the companies they own that control the narrative. Push the views they want and downplay ones that are critical. Twitch is more relevant than Amazon for that.
Amazon is not really owned by any singular person. Yes, Bezos owns 8% of it, but he's neither CEO, nor a president of the company.
He's founder of Amazon, not owner of it.
Bezos is chairman of the board for Amazon though. The CEO reports to the board.
Board members, who have to vote. He cannot unilaterally control the company.
Institutional investors like Vanguard and BlackRock own over 65% of Amazon.
Institutional investors vote with the board as a matter of policy.
What that 65% actually is, is money from average Americans' retirement accounts that has been aggregated into index funds instead of individual stocks. That means those individual investors are disenfranchised from voting their shares.
That 65% doesn't dilute Bezos' power; it inflates it at the expense of the "little people." You're making the opposite of the point you think you're making.
"Pass through" voting for stocks held through mutual funds is yet another reform that we need but aren't getting because of oligarchy.
Especially since he doesn't explicitly own Amazon, of which Twitch is a subsidiary
Average American: "That won't stop me because I can't read! [Trump approval rating continues going lower]."
Why does every post ive seen like this leave out amazon?
Not defending it, but probably because Amazon isn't media or social media. Well, Prime video is media, but it's not a behemoth like Washington Post or CNN, so it's not really relevant in the same way. I think the intent is to point out that almost every information outlet the average person learns about the world from is owned by a group of people small enough to get a table at a restaurant without having to call ahead. Fallout and The Boys being bundled in with your online shopping aren't really influencing people in the same way.
Amazon serves up a vast amount of the Internet, has live video feeds of almost every neighborhood, is a big player in the AI space, is a retail giant, a movie studio, a streaming platform, and a logistics juggernaut.
It isn't strictly media/influence, but also so much more. Scary stuff.
Bezos owns Amazon
When the hell did Musk get to 800?
This is nuts! I blinked and it happened
If one ship cost is one bilion dollars(Elon once bought a yacht for one bilion dollars) he could fund all ships for Achaemenid Empire for Battle of Salamis.
I dunno Bernie. The use of the word oligarchy makes me "feel a little queasy." But I guess I agree with you.
I don't think they are worth anywhere near that much, personally. Maybe in terms of dollars but certainly not to society....
The USA turning into Russia and China.
Y'all, who do you think owned the news media before this latest batch of billionaires owned it? Who do you think it owner it before them?
Hint: the rich have owned the news media in Western countries since before the fucking Opium Wars. It's been this way since China was a peasant country and Russia was a Tsarist feudal society.

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