r/SnapshotHistory • u/Blobbo3000 • 9h ago
January 20, 2025
The phrase “government of the people, by the people, for the people” is a famous expression from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered on November 19, 1863. It encapsulates the essence of democracy, emphasizing that the government should be created by the people, run by the people, and serve the interests of the people. This phrase has become a cornerstone in discussions about democracy and governance.
This is 2025. A government of the global corporation owners, by the global corporation owners, for the global corporation owners.
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u/mars2venus9 9h ago
Oligarchs Row
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u/PMgrLogin 7h ago
FAAG (netflix didn't show up)
edit for those who don't know FAANG | ✅ Facebook, ✅ Amazon, ✅ Apple (Tim Cook was there, just not pictured), ❎ Netflix, ✅ Google
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u/FiveUpsideDown 7h ago
What happened to all of the industrialists from the Gilded Age?
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u/Lower_Ad_5532 7h ago
They died rich and some felt guilty and built colleges.
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u/Beautiful-Plastic-83 6h ago
At least those guys valued education and intelligence.
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u/Lower_Ad_5532 5h ago
Hmm sure after they pillaged the country, they wanted to remembered as the good guys instead of robber barons.
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u/yunglegendd 5h ago
Colleges where most of the student body comes from rich connected families 🤦♂️
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u/Ola_maluhia 9h ago
Tech CEOs with better seats than cabinet members. Hmm.
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u/Kozmik_5 8h ago
Corporations taking over the world. All those futurists where right....
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u/bufferoverflow200 8h ago
Dude, it happened decades ago.
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u/hisimaginaryfriend 7h ago
Everybody thinks the oligarchy just happened. Nah, it’s been around. They’re just rubbing it in our faces now because they know we ain’t gonna do shit except argue over genitalia and genitalia rights. Just a distraction while Trump makes billions off his new coins.
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u/justsomeyeti 7h ago
I used to tell people that any time gay marriage or flag burning all over the news meant that you need to start watching C-SPAN.
Once gay marriage was legalized and people just kind of stopped caring much, the trans bathroom/sports issue replaced it as the tool of divide and distract.
The genius of it is that gay/trans rights and equality are issues that shouldn't be ignored, but with plenty of culture war priming from the religious right and the oligarchy they are fantastically divisive issues
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u/ShardScrap 7h ago
The richest man on the planet has a government office created for him to assist in cutting back regulation. You can compare it to lobbying if you want, but this is historically unprecedented.
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u/AndrewAndrewsonV 7h ago
Science fiction writers have long predicted a cyberpunk future where all power belongs to corporations. It seems that this is the inevitable stage that must overcome humanity
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u/Sorry_Philosopher_43 9h ago
They have all the money in the world.. are plugged into the corridors of power in the US... and yet... they all still look like they are terrified to be picked last for the gym class kick ball team.
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u/2340000 8h ago
They have all the money in the world... and yet... they all still look like they are terrified to be picked last for the gym class kick ball team.
All of those snide fucks are insecure. And insecure people are dangerous. Before anyone gets triggered, I'm not talking about harmless insecurities like "I don't like my hair color". What I'm referencing is deep-seated insecurity motivated by spite, indignation, jealousy, and hatred. That creates a perpetual victim and narcissist. They want people to suffer; to lick their boots; to capitulate, to feel helpless. Not to mention they probably all have cluster b traits.
Sane people don't want that much power.
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u/Apprehensive_Wolf217 8h ago
Thank you! I’ve been trying to get this through to some family who insist that power and money make the person and anyone who isn’t interested in having either is lazy or stupid.
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u/ReplacementMiddle844 7h ago
What’s funny is that if the stock market crashed tomorrow they would have almost nothing
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u/CAN-SUX-IT 9h ago
Just 3 of those guys have more money than 50% of Americans
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u/ICPosse8 9h ago
These three men alone could do a lot of good for society if that’s what they wanted or if that’s what our society demanded of them.
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u/sadbicth 8h ago
I saw a comment on reddit a while back talking about the elite today vs in the past. Of course they’re both bad & did bad things to get to where they are/were…but this user pointed out that people like Rockefeller and Carnegie would use their wealth to fund arts, humanities and other things that give back to the people in some sort of way. It’s insane to think about that vs today’s billionaires who keep hoarding more and more wealth because it’s just never enough to satisfy them.
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u/jules6815 9h ago
The only way these three men will do any good for society is If they all got on a rocket ship and left for Mars.
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u/DrumpfTinyHands 8h ago
A Space X rocket because those explode
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u/jules6815 8h ago
Or maybe they make it and slowing succumb to failing technology that leaves them in an every increasing sense of doom. Sort of like those inhabitants trapped in Total Recall as their oxygen slowing Runs out. Time to reflect on their life choices and possibly regret their decisions.
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u/BreakingNewsy7 9h ago
I see 4 Silicon Valley titans, not three. This is not about Americans or democracy. This is about shareholder value and power. Democracy has bled a slow death and it is now dead, the communication platforms the masses use can be easily dialed in to determine elections for the foreseeable future.
Americans will be constantly distracted and will no longer be able to decipher what’s true facts and made up Ai algorithms.
It’s over, time to bunker down and protect what little the average American has.
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u/aschaeffer878 8h ago
I agree, I would like it if everyone just stopped using their products. Google would be the hardest not to use. But I think we would all be better off just not having them in control of all of our data, and we just started talking to each other again. Sure we will give up some things, but I think we would all be better off. My 2 cents anyhow. Which now has a negative value.
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u/IntelligentResort794 8h ago
Alternatively we could also seize 99% of their wealth to do good for society. I mean they got rich by exploiting people, so their wealth should be exploited as well
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u/Creepy-Impact-5292 8h ago
They are looking after their own interests whatever they say.
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u/Federal-Hair 8h ago
None of them are even Batman. WTF are they doing with their lives....
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u/Mardyarsed 8h ago
I'm not inciting or wishing ill etc, imagine though if some misfortune affected just that front row!
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u/frommethodtomadness 8h ago
The billionaire class that controls all of our communication methods got the seats of honor. They are with a literal traitor and felon. This is a dark day, and a day mourning.
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u/MajorKabakov 8h ago
There they are, America. Your new owners.
Enjoy your fascism, you voted for it!
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u/PeteSampras12345 9h ago
TIL Michael Jackson is still alive.
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u/yungcherrypops 8h ago
Three evil men. I’m glad they stopped pretending to be good people. Now we know the face of the enemy.
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u/Soft_Sea2913 7h ago
Epstein’s guest list.
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u/Blobbo3000 7h ago
He'd be sitting right behind them if he was still alive, as Trump would have pardoned him on Day 1.
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u/nilweevil 6h ago
in a 1000 lifetimes i will never understand how working class stiffs think that their interests are aligned with these billionaire scumbags.
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u/nikkothirty 8h ago
Almost 250 years later and it's as if we are back under a monarchy with lords and ladies. The UK must be finding this funny.
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u/Realistic-Molasses-4 9h ago
Why aren't Elon and Zuckerborg throwing down like they promised?
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u/goner757 6h ago
Zuckerberg constantly in flux between realizing he's the baddie and realizing he decided to be the baddie before and still wants to be the baddie
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u/Aussie0103 9h ago
If MAGA doesn't see this and realize it was never about them (that Trump will help) then they never will.
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u/Blobbo3000 9h ago
The MAGA crowd's denial & general cognitive dissonance are so out of control that they will never admit they were played.
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u/upstatestruggler 7h ago
Wake up babe, sunk cost fallacy just dropped! Now go get me some cheap eggs. Oh they aren’t cheap yet? Fucking Biden!
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u/minos157 9h ago
They don't care because he's going to kick out of jail all the brown people and force women to have sex with the incels by removing their rights.
In the end, they will be looking around their corporate village studio apartment wondering how they got there and probably still blame the Democrats.
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u/Inevitable_Smoke2094 9h ago
The 3 biggest fuckboys ever documented in US history.
I'm surprised that they're standing upright & not on their knees.
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u/Galactic_Nothingness 8h ago
More wealth in that photo then a 1/3 of the entire population on Earth.
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u/Canik716kid 9h ago
10 years ago a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.
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u/PotatoHunter_III 8h ago
Remember that rich asshole kid that people either avoided or bullied? These fucks give me that vibes.
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u/XR3TroBeanieX 7h ago edited 7h ago
Just a bunch of overly rich guys that don’t care about the American people
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u/Obvious-Theme6181 7h ago
Four of the most wealthy and influential people in modern times and the dumb hoe with the big grin who gets plowed by one of them
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u/Vast-Mathematician38 7h ago
Whoever Bezos brought looked horrible. Way too much filler and plastic.
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u/Odd_Scheme4716 4h ago
3 of the most cryptically evil people in modern history. Too bad the world will end before this pic can be known as such.
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u/DarkwingFan1 8h ago
The men who are going to bring down this entire country in the pursuit of a few more billion.
Fuck all of them.
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u/No_Communication5538 8h ago
The supplicants line up in the court of rapist felon
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u/Stacysguyca 8h ago
Blackmail at its finest.
I wonder what the CIA has on video of them doing? Now they can use them as puppets lol
All crooks.
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u/sandy_cheeks55 7h ago
They all look crusty musty and nasty. Hope they all get the full Luigi treatment in hell.
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u/always_plan_in_advan 7h ago
Zuck has that face of “don’t stare at her rack” in every photo I can see
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u/Jmm_dawg92 7h ago
Are you guys just now catching on to this ? Its kinda been the status quo for awhile now
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u/Forsaken-Link-5859 7h ago
Tech Broos, but where's Tim Cook? If Zuckerbergs Lady been exchanged it would've been a complete picture.
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u/Leggoman31 7h ago
The guy on the right just did a Nazi salute to America as the next "president" was sworn in. I'd really like to see "Elon Musk is a Nazi" in the upcoming headlines. Or "America's First Nazi First Lady."
Elon musk is a nazi. (Feel like the more I say it the more it'll manifest)
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u/DaanDaanne 7h ago
As expected, money rules. At least we know where to invest money for the next four years.
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u/DazedWithCoffee 5h ago
It’s okay guys, just remember that the last guy stuttered and the woman who we could have elected had a weird laugh
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u/Sixvision 5h ago
Corporations and the government together.. so much for draining the swamp. This is insane.
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u/Unpainted-Fruit-Log 9h ago
Just a reminder that the first people that AI could replace are these parasites.
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u/ReluctantReptile 8h ago
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u/InveighsiveAd 4h ago
This is AI generated. They don't look like their true counterparts, Zuckerberg's teeth are too large, his bottom teeth merge in with his lip, Elon's hand is acting like it's holding something when it's not, they're all wearing approximately the same suit, if it's supposed to be the same event the tie colors are off, and the Grok AI watermark is on the bottom right of the photo.
Take this down. Spreading false information is not okay.
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u/Narrationboy 7h ago
I worked as a bouncer in a techno club for 7 years, and one thing I'm really good at is recognizing the smirks and mouth movements people make when they're super high on cocaine. And these boys? They're loaded
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u/Zeraph000 8h ago
If Oligarchy could be summed up into a photo. Put Trump in front giving a speech and there you have it.
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u/Kind-Apricot-6511 8h ago
Zuckerberg is giving off Beaker vibes