"We’re shifting from a democracy, which had some pretty heavy oligarchical streaks running through it, toward something like an oligarchy, in which I think it’s fair to say that it’s not Trump who’s the most important person.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"We’re shifting from a democracy, which had some pretty heavy oligarchical streaks running through it, toward something like an oligarchy, in which I think it’s fair to say that it’s not Trump who’s the most important person. It’s Musk. Trump has debts. Musk has money."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Musk #oligarchy #democracy #EconomicElites
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Thanks to @Godfrey642 for sharing this link.

How Corporate America Is Bending to Trump

We speak with Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder, an expert on authoritarianism, about how corporate America has responded to Donald Trump’s reelection. Snyder’s 2017 book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century came out just a month after Trump began his first term, and opened with the warning: “Do Not Obey in Advance.” That message has been widely cited following ABC News’s decision to settle a Trump defamation case by donating $15 million to his future presidential library. Major tech leaders have also cozied up to the president-elect in recent days, including with major donations to Trump’s inauguration. “There is a problem when the people who have the most money set the example of yielding to power first,” says Snyder. “It’s textbook anticipatory obedience.”

Democracy Now! (www.democracynow.org)

[thebratdragon@mastodon.scot]

@wdlindsy the thing that always gets me about the move to oligarchys, is that they never end well for the oligarchs but still they do it.

[breathe@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy Great interview with Timothy Snyder.

[clintruin@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
"We’re shifting from a democracy, which had some pretty heavy oligarchical streaks running through it, toward something like an oligarchy."

No. You ARE an oligarchy. There's nothing "something like" about it. Democracy died in the United States when the Supreme Court July 1st 2024 turned the US into a hybrid monarchy.

"something like" FFS. ️ ️

[nixfreak@hackers.town]

@wdlindsy US is turning into a pseudo Russia.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

“Trump is a fake rich person, and Musk is the richest person on earth (except, possibly, Putin). Trump is crazy like an improv comedian, but Musk is crazy like a guy with satellites.”

~ Timothy Snyder


#Trump #Musk #oligarchy #democracy #EconomicElites
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https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/why-is-musk-trump-the-mump-regime

[krypt3ia@infosec.exchange]

@wdlindsy Kleptogarchy

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@krypt3ia Well-termed.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@nixfreak So it appears, and no one could be happier than Musk.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@clintruin Thanks for sharing your thoughts about Timothy Snyder's valuable commentary.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Breathe I agree. He's excellent.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Thebratdragon Some of us simply refuse to learn, it seems to me.