#RobberBarons
@gimulnautti @nycCatHerder @LadyDragonfly
Yes, 1980s saw the advent of the #CasinoSociety.
However, if you read books about the #RoaringTwenties with its #RobberBarons of #industry up to the #BlackFriday in 1929, I am not quite so sure...sounds similar.
Does anyone else understand why various rich/famous people who have actual respect and admiration wake up one morning and say, “I think today is a good day to irreparably damage my reputation and legacy.”
Feinstein, Giuliani, Rowling, Adams, etc.
It's like the tried-and-true Robber Baron trajectory of “be awful, then start endowing libraries so that's what I’m remembered for”, but in reverse. (Bill Gates as a recent example.)
@chris thats too tame.
The 1900's folks coined "Robber Barons", aptly describing how their monopolists robbed the public sphere and became an untouchable class of their own.
Ours are doing the same, but on a larger and much more destructive planet-killing scale.
I vote something like "Grande Dacoits" or "Uber Dacoits"
#GrandeDacoits #UberDacoits #Billionaires #Billionaire #UltraRich #OnePercent #Elite #RobberBaron #RobberBarons #SuperRich #capitalistextremists
@chris Bring back the term #RobberBarons! #EatTheRich
The Rogers acquisition of Shaw is very likely to go through in the next few days. While I doubt the usefulness of online petitions, I’ve decided to sign the change.org petition against the merger. You might want to add your signature too.
#RogersShawMerger #MonopoliesAreBad #Competition #RobberBarons #CanPoli #Canada
@DrJRN Sounds like a plan. Are you at all inspired by our current #RobberBarons?
https://twitter.com/BradSmi/status/1598813031990906881?t=SqJCAiO6KJL8PwkVtvgMuQ&s=19
^LISTEN.
Where is SN?
Talking glowingly about the #IndustrialRevolution & eagerly scouring horizons for the next.
All fairness: it's why he has that job, ofc, to be always ahead.
And realistically, he's asked to do it more unflinchingly than the next 50 white guys gunning for his job. (Is Brad on the same page? Frankly, Idk.)
But you cant wax poetic about "#Empowerment" in the same room w the still-warm breath that just gilded #RobberBarons.
If a #strike causes major disruption, that's not the fault of #labor.
Don't blame the #workers who want to have sick days during a #pandemic -- blame the #capitalists who decide that slightly more obscene profit is more important than the lives and livelihoods of our #EssentialWorkers . Blame the #RobberBarons who are willing to risk all of us in a radically unequal game of chicken.
This isn't on #labor. Support the #RailStrike and the #unions .
@TinaThePerson Those companies are inhumane and #RobberBarons. Maybe the workers should start peeing in litter boxes and then leaving them at their bosses doors? Using CHEAP litter too.
@WilliamRobert @davetroy Wow that is my JAM right there. When can I come on and talk about #Mazdaznan, the #NXIVM-like sun worshipping cult from the turn of the 20th century that flared into wild prominence with the wealth of #robberbarons, rode the wave of #Eugenics, influenced #Bauhaus AND the American #extreme #rightwing, and now has been totally forgotten?
The West has had the fascism on slow boil since the 1970s. We've been slowing eased into corporate takeover of of govt and cannot even see it.
Fascism is the corporate takeover of govt.
Big Tech.
Big Data.
Big Pharma.
To see the #fascist cabal of #robberBarons for yourself hit Ctrl+Shift+E in TorBrowser before loading a page. Your computer talks to them.
The #financialApartied (read: #bankerCrimes) have indeed began ramping up. We reported in January how a bank was blocking/ attacking selected people in Australia from accessing their (#)bankAccount.
Almost all of #Australia's smaller, more independent banks have somehow been silently pushed onto (#)CloudFlare servers.
The #robberBarons have come back home to roost.
Its nice to know that #ElonMusk can diversify into #CoalSeamGas (ie. #fracking) and because he is a big donor to #NGO corporations they won't speak up about it.
#fossilFuels #coalSeamGas #CSG #environmentalVandal #environmentalVandalism #earthquakes #dirtyEnergy #greenWashing #openWashing #corruption #sierraClub #climateChange #NGOs #riggedEconomy #neoFeudalism #robberBarons #corporateState #howVeryKeynesian
@lightweight
How are people not seeing these #BigTech corporations as the #robberBarons they are?
If your best judgement leads you to conclude that, effectively, all phones are bad, please start using that phrase. Consider the hashtag, #APAB.
Together we can turn things around.
#AllPhonesAreBad #surveillance #privacy #smartPhones #iot #monopoly #antitrust #robberBarons #rentseeking #bigData #openHardwareNow #openTechNow #publicGoodNow
This week, there's a rather silly explanation of the #JFK assasination being discussed. Its because some CIA representative published their "findings".
To date, the best and most comprehensive explanation that we've seen is this one:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=8ObvK4NR_LI
Its a real #historyLesson that requires going back to the era of the #robberBarons, but you'll thank us later.
@seasharp
Thanks Seasharp,
#Capitalism does imply some competition. In the 19th Century #antiTrust was brought into it as a check and balances to prevent big #monopolies like the #RobberBarons in #rail. They have scarcely been used in modern times. Instead a #tooBigToFail mantra has filled the void.
A lot of mumAndPops who run little businesses will reject speaking ill of "#Capitalism". Many #project themselves though #trade and what and how they trade. We would do better to highlight…1/2
For those being misdirected to spam videos here's the actual link.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=8ObvK4NR_LI
Youtube:
https://y2u.be/watch?v=8ObvK4NR_LI
#duckduckgo #misdirection #spam #jfkTo911 #rickMansTrick #WW1 #americanNazis #mafia #kkk #jfk #robberBarons #pinkTriangle #cherryMarines #cia #ww2 #bankers #centralBanks #normandy #hitler #hitlerProject #bolshevics #frankSinatra #bayOfPigs #history
It almost feels like "The Wild West"; all your behavioural data (c f land) is out there for grabs to be "colonized". Anyone can claim my personal information ("you signed this!"). Even if I hide in a cave that's registered by the #robberbarons Google/FB et al.
@Cincinnatus Welcome! Snowden's book is waiting in my shelf 🙂 I have just started reading Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism", which I believe talks both of the money made of our unvoluntarily left behaviour data trail as on the #robberbarons style of Google, FB and others. 500+ pages though...