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There's no such thing as a self-made rich person. Rich people may work hard (some of them work incredibly hard, others hardly work at all), but their work wouldn't be nearly as profitable - or might be entirely impossible - without the systems and...
by Barry Deutsch
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 08:41 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, indeed, it is getting warmer (and warmer and warmer) on this planet of ours. It’s not just that records are being set for an...
by TomDispatch
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 06:12 AM PDT
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Elon Musk is facing an inquiry from a Brazilian court after he commanded X employees to reinstate accounts that the court had ordered to be banned. There is talk about blocking X as a whole in response, possibly pushing X users to alternatives such as...
by AChris
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on Mon Apr 08, 2024 at 04:44 AM PDT
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Ahead of Donald Trump’s Saturday rager for his billionaire buds , the Biden campaign released a video—with a fully on-board Sen. Bernie Sanders—showing just the sort of thing that will happen ...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sat Apr 06, 2024 at 02:30 PM PDT
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Straus, who is Jewish, publicly confirmed the conversation for the first time Thursday. It had previously been reported by Texas Monthly. By Jasper Scherer and Robert Downen ,
by Texas Tribune
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on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Generally speaking, I figure if the guys who’ve spent ungodly amounts of money to buy off politicians in return for tax cuts and deregulation that helps their businesses are mad about something, then it’s could very well be a good thing So, when I read...
by RickElia
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 05:18 AM PDT
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Many of the billionaires who claimed they were “sorry” they voted for Donald Trump in 2020, supported other Republican primary candidates this past year, and denounced Trump’s attempted insurrection are all being wooed back to the MAGA fold, according...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM PDT
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In America today, if you can afford at least $50 million in lawyers fees, you can get away with rape, massive financial fraud over decades, ripping off people who just wanted to go to college, stealing from children’s Cancer charities, paying off porn...
by thomhartmann
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 10:59 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. A Slow-Motion World War III? Imperial Decline (Up Close and Personal) in the Age of Climate Change By Tom Engelhardt I’ve been...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 06:27 AM PDT
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Well, there doesn't seem to be any more ambiguity over who far-right crackpot billionaire Elon Musk will be supporting for the presidency. "There is either a red wave this November or America is ...
by Hunter
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 03:30 PM PDT
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“Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by us, our object being to have large farms and large crops merely. Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN With the...
by Gregg Matson
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 04:56 PM PDT
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Donald Trump, who originally ran for office promising he’d fund�his own campaign so he wouldn’t be beholden to wealthy interests , is apparently in such dire financial straits he’s currently ...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 01:45 PM PDT
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BiILLIONAIRE EGOMANIACS by Carol Wolman, MD A few egomaniacs are destroying our world. They are devouring our minds, our pocketbooks, our individuality. Some of them believe they will be raptured by Jesus, even though they are disobeying everything he...
by cwolman
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 03:58 PM PST
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“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both,” said Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1941. Billionaires in the United States are subject to a lower overall tax...
by frankfaiola
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 06:55 PM PST
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Billionaires can only exist because too many have been indoctrinated since birth that their works earned them their billions. It is categorically false. It is your work that did it. BILLIONAIRES DID NOT EARN IT! Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here....
by Egberto Willies
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 12:54 PM PST
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Like most of us here a DKos, I’ve been consumed with disgust at the GOP’s relentless attack on Democracy for many years, and God knows it’s reached an all time high (low). While these cowardly politicians are certainly worthy of loathing for their role...
by HereSince01
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on Fri Jan 26, 2024 at 09:02 AM PST
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by RubenBolling
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on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 04:50 AM PST
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Neoliberalism broke the world, but the neoliberals at the height of political and corporate power don’t want to admit it and so helplessly complain about the backlash to it that they call populism. The easy solution is to end neoliberal policies and...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 08:12 AM PST
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Since MAGAs don’t seem to care that Cheetolini didn’t finish the Wall and that Mexico didn’t pay for it, I think it is time for President Biden to float a trial balloon that proposes he will TRIPLE all Social Security monthly payouts to ALL seniors and...
by AHaiku4U
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 03:41 PM PST
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Donald Trump and his fellow rightwing billionaires have a plan for America. They want to turn the United States from a prosperous, middle-class nation into a country of paupers, where bribery is common and the wealthy can get away with anything. The...
by thomhartmann
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 08:21 AM PST
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