• quick_snail@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    No, there’s not.

    There’s many of them, and they are all rich and trying to stab each other’s backs to get more power and money.

    • Jason2357@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      And history shows that EVERY time they felt their wealth and power were genuinely threatened, they conceded both. You don’t even need a bloody revolution, they just need to see that it is a possibility before their thin skin starts crawling.

      The british monarchy saw the french revolution and invented the parliamentary system. The robber barron’s saw the communist revolutions in the east and suddenly the new deal, suffrage, and civil rights. Today, the billionaires are outclassed and out numbered worse than either of those examples, and will crumple like a paper tiger the second their facade is broken. All they have is their propaganda networks to protect them.

      • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
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        1 day ago

        And history shows that EVERY time they felt their wealth and power were genuinely threatened

        Watching Musk get behind a mic and start bellyaching about declining fertility rates is rather revealing