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Accidental Czar
The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin,
Andrew S. Weiss,
Brian Box Brown
(Illustrator)
Infuriating great #comics bio of Russian KGB mid-level bureaucrat
Basically exactly the same as a #TechBro #Billionaire
Not the smartest young guy in the right place who made connections worked a bit and was absurdly lucky
Then a bigger asshole than those around him so he ended up taking over the world
cameo pg 47
Should be a bayan or garmoshka button #Accordion?
@randahl
No wonder #Trump failed his businesses, he has no idea how anything works. If he didn't have his #billionaire mates pumping money into his account, he would be on the done by now.
He thinks all these #American companies make their products in the #US so he is "helping" them. In reality, most of them exploit third world countries, pay staff a dollar per day and charge exorbitant amounts of money for the privilege of using their brand names.
Everything will be more expensive in the US.
A “good” #billionaire is fine. But NO billionaires is better.
As I peeled the paper envelope off the teabag, I realized I was giving more thought to whether to recycle it than any #billionaire does about jumping in his private jet for a quick jaunt.
@KimPerales
#@Trump knows what he is doing, nothing better than crashing the market so he and his #billionaire mates can buy land, stock, shares all the hell they want at a much reduced cost and then pump the market back up again - their shares will be worth so much more. Meanwhile, the poor will have to sell everything to pay for the basics.
The #US is going back to feudalism.
@exador23
#Boycott #Tesla until there is no #Musk
Remember that Musk is a #billionaire because of this overvalued shares. If the shares go down, so does his perceived value. If banks start asking for repayment to all his loans.. bye bye Musk...
@Wen he who pays the piper calls the tune.
The interests of the #billionaire #kleptocrat class are always, systematically and necessarily, radically opposed to those of the non-billionaires. Any election in which any political donations larger than could reasonably be afforded by the poorest voter are tolerated is by definition anti-democratic.
@quoidian @Bluedonkey @frog67 @kibcol1049
Damn straight.
Better to have a school teacher for a leader than a #billionaire.
And billionaires know this, that's why they're destroying education.
#ElonMusk #Vote #Billionaire attempts to buy another election.
@MEActNOW If #Musk kills the population, then the money paying their salaries, benefits etc will be saved - simples ;-) until the money is diverted to the #nazi bank accounts.
Tax evaders don't give a shit who they hurt. A #billionaire president only cares about the billionaires.
There is a little detail that Musk hasn't thought through. if he kills black, disabled, LGBT, Latinos... will #MAGA work in the billionaires' factories? These are the benefits scroungers and are expecting to cash in 
We are facing #Fascism because these #Billionaire #Oligarchs, all of them #TaxCheats, want to end freedom and #democracy. Don’t let them.
https://theplotagainstamerica.com/
@nitpicking I tried to find it on the web, but only found it on another #billionaire platform; #Facebook.
It was reposted from NowThis on #Instagram and the video of a 90 year-old #Holocaust survivor calling out the #Gestapo tactics of ICE in Northern #California is credited to Gabriel Thompson.
I know everyone is worried about #AI but generative AI isn't the problem. It's the #billionaire shitbags controlling it. Fortunately, #opensource exists, and a lot is being done in that space. Then there's these so-called studies on AI, about how it's making people stupid. How the fuck did they assess that so quickly? The tech has only been around for a few years. When did the "#researchers" squeeze in all these rigorous studies? Oh wait, the paper released by #Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon isn't a research paper, it's a survey. If you're going to criticise a developing tech, at least get your facts straight and your arguments consistent. Oh and make sense.
Yes of course this a #revolution, Elon #Musk. A #rightwing #extremist #billionaire revolution.
And if your fucking task is to protect that revolution by keeping everyone calm & quiet with your fancy #AI tools & #propaganda, but instead the people are coming after YOU with a #TeslaTakedown - than YOU have failed.
Not the people of America that you didn't care about anyway - but your fucking billionaire friends. 
Pathetic #loser.
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Revealed: Trump’s plan to force Ukraine to restore Putin’s gas empire
America holds gun to Zelensky’s head with unprecedented reparation demands
#YankeeGoHome #makeAmericaGoAway
#trump #kleptofascist #billionaire #looter #maffia
#putin #ruSSia #kleptofascist #terrormaffia
#Maine #billionaire makes it onto list of richest Americans
by Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News
Fri, November 1st 2024
"In what may be a first, a Mainer has been named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 400 wealthiest living Americans.
"Susan Alfond, a Scarborough resident, is one of three surviving siblings whose father was Harold Alfond, the founder of Dexter Shoe Co. Susan Alfond and her brothers, Bill and Ted, each are estimated to have personal wealth of $3.4 billion, ranking them alongside a few other billionaires in 388th place on the list of 400.
[...]
"There are several other billionaires on this year’s Forbes 400 list with ties to #Maine, most of them because they summer at seasonal homes they own along the coast.
"The wealthiest of them is Edward C. Johnson IV, whose wealth is estimated to be worth $12.6 billion, ranking him as the 70th richest American. Johnson, whose grandfather, Edward C. Johnson II founded Fidelity Investments, has a summer home on Mount Desert Island, and his father, Edward C. Johnson III, long owned property and summered there.
"Edward C. Johnson III, who died in 2022, ran the investment firm until handing the reins to his daughter Abigail Johnson in 2014. Abigail Johnson ranks 30th on the Forbes list with an estimated wealth of $31.3 billion, but it is not clear if she or a third Johnson sibling, Elizabeth (who Forbes says is worth $10.6 billion), also owns property or spends summers in Maine.
"Other billionaires who rank on the Forbes list and own summer homes on MDI include brothers Stephen and Mitchell Rales, Charles Butt, and Robert Bass, each of whom has an estimated wealth roughly between $5 billion and $9 billion.
"John C. Malone, the founder of Liberty Media and one of the largest landowners in the country, owns Mosquito Island off Port Clyde and a summer home in Boothbay. Malone, who with an estimated wealth of $10.7 billion is ranked 89th on the Forbes list, also owns nearly 1 million acres in Maine, including Falcon Lodge on Spencer Lake in Somerset County and surrounding woodlands."
Source:
https://wgme.com/news/local/maine-billionaire-makes-it-onto-list-of-richest-americans-susan-alfond-forbes-magazine-dexter-shoe-co-harold-alfond
#TaxTheRich #RichMainers #billionaires
#TaxTheRich, it’s a decent start
Posted by Bluebird | Mar 12, 2025
"As incredible as it may seem, just a handful of #billionaire #Mainers could fund the state for years out of their own pockets and still live out their lives as multimillionaires. So when socialists say tax the rich, we mean more than raising what billionaires pay by 1% or 2%, we mean raising their taxes by 25% or 50% or more to start with. We mean we should take back the wealth they have collected by exploiting all the people who have worked for them, all the land they have stolen, and all the resources they have grabbed all around the world. In the meantime, socialists often support smaller measures whenever we feel like they are a way to raise funds to help our class, raise consciousness, and build organization.
However, increasing taxes on the wealthy isn’t a permanent solution to the persisting problems of #capitalist society. It’s a good start, but it’s not enough.
[...]
"By all means tax [the wealthy] at a rate of 95%, 99%, 100%, 200%! Take back everything they have stolen from us. Truly solving the causes of social inequality cannot happen until the property of the capitalist class has been expropriated, but for the reasons explained above, simply taxing them at any rate will prove ineffective given enough time.
"Moreover, tax increases tend to antagonize capitalists. Sooner or later, as we are seeing very clearly now in Washington, they will transform their economic might into raw political power to claw back even the small social costs that generations of #SocialMovements and trade unions have imposed on them. During such times, as grim as our prospects may seem, it becomes clearer than ever that so long as the capitalists have all the power, even the most progressive public policy can only be temporary.
"How much longer will capitalist industry be allowed to #pollute the planet? How many more times does the economy have to crash? How many more wars will we be forced to fight on the behalf of these #RobberBarons? How many more lives will be ruined by #debts, mass #layoffs, denied insurance claims, and more? Why should we tolerate a system that exploits those whose labor keeps society functioning?"
Read more:
https://pineandroses.org/opinion/www-pineandroses-org/
#MaineDSA #Socialism #CapitalismMustDie
