I Trained With Russian Diplomats. I Can Tell You How They Work
... Charm the West with trade. Threaten neighbors in the background. Speak diplomacy, practice coercion. That isn’t just hypocrisy, it’s a strategy. ..
#putin #ruSSia #kleptofascist #neocolonial #neoimperial #oligarch #looter #torture #rape #deportation #terrormaffia
@georgetakei Elon the #oligarch is living, breathing evidence for the fact that our society endows a few sociopaths with enormous wealth and power. We have an #oligarchy that rewards sociopathic behavior which then results in sociopaths becoming billionaires and billionaires turning into sociopaths as they amass more billions.
Probably don't need to reiterate it on lefty Mastodon, but the #Trump tariffs are not so that the working class can get back something stolen from it by #globalization but so that the #rich & #oligarch class can avoid having what THEY have stolen reappropriated from them. #Protectionism may have a role in a just #economy but that isn't what this is about. It's dividing the international working class to stop it uniting against the super rich
Hundreds of protesters at #Tesla showroom off #MagnificientMile in downtown #Chicago today. This is the largest crowd I've ever seen here.
Elon Musk Joins Trump at Secret $1 Million per Plate Dinner
Why wasn’t this on Trump’s official schedule?
https://newrepublic.com/post/192864/trump-elon-musk-secret-mar-a-lago-dinner
"Saturday, #DonaldTrump held a candlelight dinner at his #MaraLago estate in #Florida, with #tech #oligarch #ElonMusk... guests were asked to spend $1 million per seat.
...this dinner did not appear on the president’s official schedule, unlike a similar candlelight dinner two weeks earlier where guests were also asked to donate $1 million each"
"Rep. 1 "...such a competition is rigged from the beginning, since it is organized by an #oligarch who controls the govt. He is fit. You are not. That is natural."
...
"Rep. 1. “...yes, the point is to make the #government entirely dysfunctional for the rest of you. But, right, we will keep the govt functional for us..."
Rep. 4 "Of course we lie. Lying is good. Let #science & the #humanities compete with other opinions in a free market of ideas."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-doge-helpline
Elon Musk, Apartheid, & America’s New #Boycott Movement
If you think mass #protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-apartheid-boycott-tesla-doge-trump/
"But #opposition movements always seem hopeless until they’re not. #Apartheid... came crashing down... We didn’t know that its heirs would be wreaking havoc on this country 4 decades later, but...
The #SouthAfrica apartheid regime was defeated. Maybe one South African #oligarch can be too"
Bloomberg reports that Musk has lost all his battles over severance with former Twitter employees so far: “Four ex-Twitter workers have prevailed in a recent series of closed-door arbitration proceedings over claims they were illegally denied severance, according to a memo seen by Bloomberg News...#ElonMusk..#GOP..#whitenationalism..#oligarch..
@GottaLaff Is the Democratic party trying to commit suicide? Why are they so afraid of opposing the fascist #oligarch?
A friend who works at the FAA just sent me this. Evidently my new hobby is sending emails every damn day to my elected officials and demanding that they stop allowing rampant corruption in government.
Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns
The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflicts of interest for CEO Elon Musk in one of his other roles, that of recommending funding cuts at federal agencies, including the FAA.
#Coup #Oligarch #Elon #Starlink #TheGremlinZoo
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/business/musk-faa-starlink-contract/index.html
TFW: You want to yell "Oligargle deez balls!" as you Leroy Jenkins some oligarchs. 
Fake journeys, fake customers: inside Roman Abramovich’s yacht rental scam.
The oligarch’s scheme to skirt taxes on his boats was enterprising, elaborate – and illegal.
Here’s how it worked.
"#Germany’s #Habeck slams ‘#tech #oligarch’ #Musk, calls for a #European #X" / #Twitter
I'm trying to think of a #socialmedia, founded in Germany, with a strong commitment to #privacy and #rights and already in full compliance with #German law
I think it was founded in 2016, by a computer science student at the University of #Jena... named Eubert? Imogen?
The mascot is a hairy elephant I think?
I can't seem to recall
Do you know it, Habeck?
@Basmitharts What organisms?
If we needed solid evidence that too much money makes you a monster, Elon the #oligarch's journey delivers in spades.
@dangillmor Reminder that just a year ago Chaz Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking the tax information of #oligarchs. Now that an #oligarch gets access to our records, will any minion of the #oligarchy go to prison?
@stux The #oligarch got an office in the West Wing AFTER he did a Nazi salute TWICE at an inauguration rally. All the racists know that he is one of them, and that is why they cheer him on. Back in 2022 and 2023, he was testing the limits, now he knows that are no limits on his power. The #oligarchy is here thanks to Republicans in Congress and their base voters who will let them get away with anything, including felonies.
Ethics concerns surround Musk's dual role as defense CEO, federal employee
The SpaceX leader's DOGE work may violate criminal conflict-of-interest statutes, one ethics expert said...#ElonMusk..#GOP..#whitenationalism..#oligarch https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/02/musks-role-special-government-employee-raises-ethics-questions/402751/
@GottaLaff American #oligarchs doing a solid for their Russian #oligarch buddies. Big win for global #oligarchy!
Not even a pretense of commitment to democracy or American interests. Thanks to the gullibility of Republican voters, the oligarchy can thrive in the open.
@godpod The #oligarchy has done a great job of convincing these idiots that the #oligarchs mean well and that this particular #oligarch is trustworthy.
