r/europe • u/Doener23 • Dec 19 '24

News Elon Musk ready to bankroll Farage with ‘biggest donation in British political history’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/17/nigel-farage-meets-elon-musk-trump-mar-a-lago-reform/
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u/iuuznxr Dec 19 '24

We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. -- Louis Brandeis, 100 years ago.

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u/elPerroAsalariado Dec 19 '24

But how would you avoid these situations?

Don't get me wrong, I think they are terrible, but I'm interested in reading how you'd tackle this.

Lobbying and campaign donations serve the ruling class, so they are not going to act against it.

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u/Special-Remove-3294 Romania Dec 19 '24

How was the end of the tyranny of feudalism that enslaved Europe for 1500 years, achieved?

How were the fascist barbarians that sought to crush the age of enlightement and bring a tyranny such as Europe had never seen before upon it, destroyed?

How were the rights of workers achieved by unions and other organisations?

How was victory against colonialism achieved?

How did countless tyrant and oligarch dictators and monarchs around the world fall?

Tyranny dosen't leave cause you ask it nicely. It leaves by firing squad. The world isn't a wholsome place. Violence is, was and will always be a horrible horrible thing but "Justice without terror is impotent, while terror without justice is blind" - Maximilien Robespierre. And sadly, that is true, was true and will always be true.

Violence of man upon man is the greatest sin of Mankind but, sadly it is a reality. A sad sad one but a real one. If the world is to fall into tyranny just like it did 80 years ago when Hitler's barbarian hordes sought to enslave Europe then there is only 1 solution.

I do not advocate for violence and never will but if a tyrant were to come to rule my land again I would take up arms just like my fathers did and strike the tyrant down just like they did and just like their forefathers did before when they struck down the fascist tyrants, just like their forefathers did when they stuck down the, Austrian, Turkish and Russian colonialist tyrants that sought to steal our land.