• terranoid@lemmy.cafe
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    4 days ago

    Shadow cabal and oligarchy aren’t mutually exclusive. Seems to me the oligarchs are just the more obvious nodes of the shadow cabal web, the fuckers with the money and power that can go on TV and talk directly to senators.

    Go one step back away from the limelight and you get dudes like Cheney, Bannon, people who interact with all the obvious oligarchs but don’t need to post on social media and don’t need to stay relevant to constituents. And then people like Epstein, agents in the field gathering blackmail.

    Shit is pretty fucking crazy tbh.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtf
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      3 days ago

      Yup.

      And in the 4 classes I’ve heard the spooks and crooks use, assets, agents, operators and architects, there are those above the agents like Epstein.

      I say “above”. But, when looking to try see the top, it looks murky. … Sounds more like the bottom. Of a swamp. Such is kakistarchy. Ruled by the worst.