Is America becoming Soviet Russia?:
Is America becoming Soviet Russia?
Feels like it.
Oligarchs run the show.
Both parties are owned by billionaires.
Tech billionaires are abandoning the government.
Look at what they’re doing to DOGE.
Gutting air traffic controllers.
Firing the people who study bird flu.
Removing the people who take care of the national parks.
Ruining the NIH.
This is what late-stage empires do.
Cut costs.
They have to.
America has a debt problem that is beyond enormous.
36 trillion.
Reminder, a million seconds is 11.6 days.
A billion seconds is around 31.7 years.
A trillion seconds is around 32,000 years.
32 THOUSAND YEARS!
They have 36 trillion in debt.
Even though the defense budget is the largest line item on the US payroll, they’ll never touch that.
So it’ll go to entitlements.
Social security.
Medicare.
Medicaid.
The government programs that tens of millions of Americans need to survive.
Argentina is the test case.
Look at what Milei has done.
Gutted all social programs.
Moved the bottom part of the population into abject poverty.
Then look at what he did with the rug pull.
For those unfamiliar, Milei pumped a crypto coin.
Said to raise money for the government.
Then people around him immediately dumped the coin.
LIBRA.
Look at this article that explains it (here).
Milei essentially started a coin.
Got it to 4B in valuation.
Then tanked the whole thing.
People lost $250M.
Just like that.
What was supposed to be for the Argentinian people was just a total scam.
Same with Trump.
Look at what he did with Trump Coin.
Then look at Melania coin.
Pumped before his inauguration.
Then dumped.
No one cares.
No one does anything about it.
Nothing will happen to these people.
Same with the Hawk Tuah girl.
Girl made famous online with a funny clip.
Caught her 10 seconds of fame.
Started a podcast.
Started a crypto coin.
Then rug pulled everyone and disappeared.
Trump’s done the same.
Heard this podcast recently that talks about.
The idea that individuals believe the financial system, including money and markets, lacks any value or meaning.
All markets are fake.
We know the stock market is.
Go read Flash Boys if you don’t believe me.
Here’s Michael Lewis telling you this a decade ago (here).
And nothing’s ever changed.
The Wall Street lobby is too powerful.
Check out ‘The Payoff: How Wall Street Always Wins.’
Written by a lobbyist post financial crisis.
He explained how Wall Street got away with everything by flooding Washington with shit tons of money so they could get the guys in power they wanted.
Obama promised he was going to take down the bankers.
Nothing happened.
Obviously.
Corporations run the government.
Ever since Citizens United was repealed, corporations can spend an unlimited amount of money in elections.
Here’s a quick background on Citizen’s United.
The Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) Supreme Court decision fundamentally reshaped U.S. campaign finance law by granting corporations and unions broad rights to spend money in elections. The 5-4 ruling struck down key provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) and prior precedents, arguing that restrictions on independent political expenditures violated First Amendment free speech protections
Corporations and unions gained the ability to spend unlimited amounts on political ads, provided they do not coordinate directly with candidates
Corporations are considered people.
So they can spend as much money as possible.
Who owns the largest corporations?
Billionaires.
Who spends the most on politics?
Billionaires.
Look at what Elon Musk did.
Donated 260+ million dollars to the Trump campaign.
Bought the president.
Now he’s running DOGE and cutting whatever he wants.
Will never touch the defense contractors or his own government contract.
But early-stage scientific research?
Yeah we don’t need that.
The Oligarchs are running the government and it’s never been more brazen than now.
But that’s not even it.
It’s people disappearing.
People disappearing for their opinions.
Look at this Mahmoud Khalil case.
A green card holder in the US, married to American citizen, was disappeared from his house, sent to Louisiana, can’t talk to his lawyer, and is facing trial.
All because he protested what Israel is doing in Gaza.
He didn’t even commit a crime.
They literally made it up.
The people who are running the government can’t even say what he did wrong.
Protest is a fundamental right of America.
Free speech.
The ability to criticize anyone and anybody.
It’s what makes America the country it is.
The ability to talk about whatever you want and being protected under the First Amendment.
We don’t live in that world anymore.
At least not in the US.
Or the West.
If you criticize a certain group of people, they can take away your livelihood.
Or worse, make you disappear.
This is what the Secret Police did in the USSR.
Side note: check out ‘The Death of Stalin’ for a hilarious retelling of the USSR.
People disappeared all the time.
Political prisoners.
Anyone who said something the government didn’t like, poof.
Gone.
Now look what the US is doing.
Also, and I want to make this point clear.
THIS IS ON BEHALF OF A FOREIGN NATION.
Not anything related directly to America.
But someone else.
Some group in the middle east who’s killing thousands of innocent women and children.
You can’t even do that without getting disappeared.
Scary.
Very scary times in America.
Feels like it’s shifting.
It’s shifting towards Soviet Russia.
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