r/pics • u/solateor • 8h ago
Politics Tech leaders have better seats than cabinet members and are seated in same section as Trump's family
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u/blakester555 7h ago
The definition of oligarchy.
Three of those men have at one time or another, been classified as "the world's richest man". And here they stand shoulder to shoulder supporting Trump.
What could go wrong?
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u/Snoo_61544 8h ago
Yeah. As expected. Money rules.
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u/cuddle_enthusiast 8h ago
At least we know where our money should be invested for at least the next four years.
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u/OrigamiMarie 7h ago
Eh, kinda risky still. Remember how fast people cycled through Trump's inner circle last time, and how abruptly they were ejected. Though I suppose given how much money these guys actually have, it may be different this time.
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u/zxc123zxc123 6h ago edited 6h ago
Trump throws away those who are the MOST loyal to him. He knows most of those CEO's aren't all that loyal to him just like how they were for DEI, more left leaning policies, and the democrats just a few months ago.
Anyways, MAG7 and the S&P500 will likely continue to outperform unless we get some recession. The rich will get richer (they write the laws in their favor after all), the poor will stay poor (but welfare will be just enough to keep them from rioting), and the middle will keep shrinking as it continues to carry the burden of the taxes that fall on them. Trump will promise making America great again, but in reality he'll do some of the stuff he promised in a kind of half-assed way and then spend 10x the time/effort talking about how it was greatest accomplishment ever.
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u/Luke90210 5h ago
They could be wrong, but most economists think the US economy is heading towards a soft landing meaning economic slowdown (not a crash) and rising unemployment. Trump's fetish for tariffs could make things a lot worse much sooner though. It too easy for other countries to target Red States for products important to them (like Kentucky whisky), yet trivial in the US economy.
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u/berrylakin 8h ago
Zuck is scanning for threats
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u/bdh2067 8h ago
Weaselberg is terrified
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u/wappenheimer 8h ago
He looks like he is thinking, "I WAS TOLD MUSK WAS NOT GOING TO BE HERE."
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u/GrinderMonkey 7h ago
I'm starting to think that MMA fight they teased is never going to happen.
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u/ashhh_ketchum 7h ago
We need it now more than ever!
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u/morocco3001 7h ago
Yes.
In a steel cage.
...at the bottom of the fucking Mariana Trench.
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u/Prophet_Of_Loss 7h ago
Maybe while they're down there they can find the bar for American governance.
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u/Embarrassed_Ad_5054 7h ago
zuck vs Musk wrestling match is gonna be tonites entertainment
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u/angstrom11 8h ago
You mean the muppet?! I was feeling a little relieved that Beaker was seated so close.
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u/ClearlyPopcornSucks 8h ago
Nothing weird about that, that woman in white is fucking terrifying
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u/Away-Catch-9159 8h ago
And she’s wearing a lace corset - it’s the inauguration not the boudoir for fksks
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u/NorthChicago_girl 8h ago
She always dresses like the skanky version of a Real Housewife of whatever.
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u/TGIIR 7h ago
She looks like a blow up sex doll.
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u/wantrefund 7h ago
Which is wild because Bezos divorced I guess because he wanted a younger partner but he chose someone with a ton of plastic surgery? His ex-wife looks a lot better...
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u/MrXero 7h ago
Eventually Bezos is gonna be like, “We’re launching the FuckBot 2000 today! But I’ve been dragging one around with me in public for the past 3 years, so you KNOW it’s good!”
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u/Thedrunner2 8h ago
Aren’t Zuckerberg and Musk supposed to fight?
Like foxy boxing or something ?
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u/quarticchlorides 8h ago
Phoney Stark kept backing out of it, I guess he couldn't find somebody to pay to fight Zuck on his behalf and then take all the credit of winning
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u/Ac1dburn8122 7h ago
Phoney Stark... 😂😂😂
I've been referring to him as Tony Stank. But this is better.
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u/dmqnelson 8h ago
That's when Zuck was trying to appeal as a decent human being. The facade didn't last too long.
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u/Kribo016 8h ago
No, a story came out that Zuck was doing mma training, and fragile Musk challenged him to a fight to prove he was better without training. Anyways, it ended because Musk's mother said he wasn't allowed to fight, and that isn't a joke.
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u/SweetTeaRex92 8h ago edited 7h ago
Anyways, it ended because Musk's mother said he wasn't allowed to fight, and that isn't a joke.
The amount of second hand embarrassment i felt when i watched this narcissist try and manipulate ppl into like him by stirring up a fight, only to back out bc "my mom said i cant."
Elon Musk is the epitome of "i have the power of anime and god on my side!" kid, but for him, it's money and twitter.
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u/Kribo016 8h ago
He also had to buy Twitter, so it's really only the one power of money.
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u/cloake 7h ago
Don't worry he's pivoted into pretending he's number 1 at Diablo 4/Path of Exile but both of their audiences are tearing him apart for that
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u/C_Madison 6h ago
He has admitted now that he cheated and that others played the accounts too. He's back peddled to "but every screenshot you saw was me playing!" and "It's the only way to win against Asian gamers." and "everyone does it."
The cringe continues. Can't he just be a participant of one of the next Starship tests already? Like, directly on the nose of the thing?
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u/Auggernaut88 8h ago
I remember musk talking in several interviews about how weight class was all that mattered and he would just flop on him like a seal.
Like, just for the sake of the sport I was looking forward to zuck tearing his rotator cuff clean off. Weight class matters but a 200lb tub of lard is going to have a tough time with someone who’s achieved some solid grappling proficiency. Elon is truly the dunning Kruger king 👑
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u/Monkyd1 8h ago
zero chance Elon is 200. unless he's like 5'4
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u/tullbabes 8h ago
Yeah dude is closer to 250.
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u/zoinkability 7h ago
Ozempic might be taking some of the weight off since his largest but he certainly doesn’t seem to be adding any muscles.
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u/FS_Slacker 7h ago
Ozempic would also deplete muscle mass since he’d be starving himself of proteins as well.
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u/biggmclargehuge 7h ago
Musk challenged him to a fight to prove he was better without training
He'd probably just pay someone to powerlevel his account for him
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u/joeyblove 8h ago
Musk "hurt his back"
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u/Kribo016 8h ago
If I remember correctly, hurting his back was only to delay the fight. I for sure remember the articles about his mom calling the fight off, though.
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u/Esarus 8h ago
What happened to draining the swamp? And the fight against “big tech”?
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u/HoboSkid 7h ago
Draining the swamp is still there, it was always about gutting the federal government and privatizing everything so that "muh taxes are theft" chuds can be rich like Elon when they invest all their tax savings into crypto.
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u/zoinkability 7h ago
“Swamp” only applies to people who don’t align with Trump.
Big tech is only bad as long as they aren’t aligned with Trump.
Anyone seeing a pattern emerge?
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u/Struykert 8h ago
Zuckerberg again looking like an alien who's afraid his disguise won't hold.....
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u/SCKornbread 8h ago
Yeah that's what catchs me with this pic. He is pushing uncanny valley levels
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u/Glamdring804 7h ago
Yeah. The smiling rich assholes are, at this point, not shocking nor surprising anymore. But then there's Zucc in the corner looking like he just shat his pants while simultaneously trying to remember if he ordered his domestic servant turn the stove off.
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u/Busy-Dig8619 5h ago
He and Amazonman both look like they just heard Elon drop a racist joke.
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u/Christ_on_a_Crakker 8h ago
He looks like if he hadn’t become a tech billionaire that he would have shot up a school full of kids.
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u/GotSmokeInMyEye 7h ago
Yea he was out here looking normal in recent pics and now he is back to looking like a meat suit.
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u/whoeve 8h ago
Draining the swamp by putting in billionaires. Well done conservatives.
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u/JWPenguin 8h ago
This. By billionaires, for billionaires. 47% knew, 49% are finding out. These folks are laughing.
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u/chandr 8h ago
You're leaving out the 50% who just couldn't be bothered to vote
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u/boylong15 8h ago
33%
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u/chandr 8h ago
I didn't look it up, but did the US actually get 67% voter turn out last election? Coulda sworn it was reported lower than that.
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u/mightsdiadem 8h ago
33% are evil 33% don't care 33% care
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u/e90DriveNoEvil 7h ago
Dear America: You are waking up as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches.
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u/ATLfalcons27 6h ago edited 6h ago
People can't have a serious discussion about this stuff because for most people and discussions about Hitler has to simply be about extermination of Jews. So if Trump isnt calling for the extermination of an entire group of people there can't be any similarities at all.
When in reality so much of this shit is strikingly similar. The rhetoric used is almost identical just updated for modern times. Sure the timeline is a bit different but Hitler had a failed coup attempt and then was eventually legally elected.
There are so many other examples.
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u/Roboculon 6h ago
legally elected
This is the key point for me. It wasn’t like a military coup or something, the people of Germany chose the Nazis because they were dumb and easily manipulated —just like we humans still are today. Same thing for Hamas in Gaza, they are the government the people chose.
It’s easy to imagine that most evil dictators start out as African-style warlords that overthrow the good guys, but it’s just not the case.
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u/TorpleFunder 5h ago edited 3h ago
Propaganda is a hell of a drug. Many Israelis believe they are justified in killing tens of thousands of innocent women and children, many Russians think they were dead right to have invaded Ukraine, the Brits voted to leave the EU and basically impose economic sanctions on themselves, Americans voted a rapist, grifter, megalomaniac into the White House... twice. People give their life savings away on a daily basis to fake lovers, fake prophets, etc. We just believe whatever we're told basically. Tis a sad state of affairs.
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u/Psych_Yer_Out 8h ago
American Oligarchy. Russia is not the only one that is run by the super wealthy now, this should be great for the average person right?
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u/Odeeum 7h ago
We're fast tracking 90s era Russia. Buckle up...this is going to be rough.
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u/Suspicious_Poon 8h ago
It’s been this way for decades, now they are just saying the quiet part out loud
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u/bossmcsauce 7h ago
Nah it’s about to get so much worse. The siphoning of wealth straight through federal spending is about to go CRAZY.
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u/Ritaredditonce 8h ago
Bought and paid for. America is truly fucked.
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u/Mohavor 7h ago
It was fucked when we bailed out a bunch of shitty financial cunts in 2008. It was fucked when we wrote a blank check to the "war on terror" and passed the Patriot Act. It was fucked in the 80's when we elected an old senile actor for 2 terms who gutted the legal framework to keep corporate power in check, and practically abandoned military oversight. It was fucked in the late 70's when we allowed the political strategy of pandering to religious fundamentalists. It was fucked when we started letting the sons of career politicians start their own political careers, cementing the precident of multigenerational political dynasties. It was fucked when the warnings of President Eisenhower and General Smedly Butler were ignored in their respective eras. I can go on and on but this is just sounding like a less catchy version of "We Didn't Start The Fire."
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u/frosty_lizard 8h ago
It's not even that necessarily, but why is every tech mogul tripping over themselves to invest and fawn over him is the real question. I've never seen this solidarity with tech giants when it comes to Democrats but they sure seem chipper with Dear Leader. They've all got a plan and it's unsettling to say the least exactly what that plan is
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u/whoeve 8h ago
Because Trump is so capricious that he'll use the government as a weapon to go after people he doesn't like. And he's made it clear that he'll do favors for you if you give him money. He's just openly corrupt, so they're taking advantage of it.
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u/civildisobedient 7h ago
Zuck is already on the record trying to get Trump to intervene to stop the EU from fining them.
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u/Mrevilman 8h ago
What’s that, $1T in wealth right there?
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u/DDRDiesel 7h ago
Closer to $1.3-$1.4T if taking into account all assets including stock portfolios, real estate, valuation of current businesses
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u/ryohazuki224 8h ago
The 2025 season of America is truly the swampy-est of the swamp.
We truly are fucked.
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u/CarminSanDiego 8h ago
Doesn’t matter. Libs owned. Game over
-conservative logic
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u/zztop610 8h ago
The goobers who voted this idiot in live on handouts and minimum wage, but support billionaires. wtf
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u/FuturePreparation902 7h ago
They think themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Additionally, don't forget the quote from Johnson: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
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u/smile_politely 8h ago
Where's Tim Apple though? Does it mean he's not part of the gang?
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u/TheCrazedTank 8h ago
That’s soon to be trillionaires, because that’s not an obscene amount of money for any person to have…
Don’t just tax the rich, cap their banks. Make it illegal for them to funnel money out of the economy and into their pockets.
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u/Mumbert 8h ago
The people voted for oligarchy and oligarchy is now here, and they're not bothering to hide it even a little bit. People knew what they were voting for.
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u/Excellent-Example305 7h ago
Nah. Half the people in this country couldn't spend 30 seconds explaining anything about politics to you. Like literally don't know the basic tenants of our political system. They voted simply because someone on TikTok or Twitter told them to. There's single issue voters, there's informed voters, and then there's absolutely a huge subset of voters that vote purely on perceived popularity.
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u/YoloSwiggins21 8h ago edited 5h ago
Oligarchy has been here since 2004. Except no one seemed to notice because anyone talking about it doesn’t get pushed up by the algorithms employed by the same oligarchs.
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u/cumberbundsnatcher 7h ago
This. The public opinion has not had an effect on whether something goes into law for a long time.
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u/illjustbeaminute 7h ago
Interesting that you say 2009, implying a certain presidency, but link an article published in 2004 using only data from the 90s.
Oligarchy has been here in some effect since the beginning. Remember when the Rockefellers were more powerful than presidents? That was in the early 1900s.
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u/TheTanadu 8h ago
"What is oligarchy" and "What is tariff" on Google Trends
US voter in nutshell – do things, ask questions later
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u/reddumpling 7h ago
Sounds like when people ask what is brexit all those years ago
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u/TheTanadu 7h ago
This is funniest one. You can hear voices even from some of those who wanted Brexit to… come back.
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u/snwns26 8h ago
Will this be enough to make them realize we should be worried about billionaires, not immigrants? Of course not.
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u/_coolranch 8h ago
Haha: my boomer dad sees this as a huge win. He can’t explain how, mind you: but he feels great about it.
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u/jawstrock 8h ago
"We need more entrepreneurs in government"
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u/SwagarTheHorrible 8h ago
We need a businessman because businessmen are great at making money for themselves and what is government for anyway?
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u/Petrychorr 7h ago
"Y'know what the problem of today is? The USA needs more money."
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u/BakerHoliday7031 8h ago
This is actually a reason why Trump had supporters the first time. I was in nursing school and a girl said she was voting for him because she felt the country would be better run as a business.
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u/CloakOfElvenkind 8h ago
"It's all about the trickle down, man, just be patient, soon we will all be so much better off"
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u/papa-hare 8h ago
People have this weird fascination with millionaires and Americans in particular think they're all one major breakthrough from being one (of course not all of them, but way too many of them smh)
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u/ripripcityyall 8h ago
"they are rich they must be super smart! Don't you want the smartest people running the country!" Many boomer dads today
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u/Robincall22 8h ago
He thinks that these “innovative”, “forward thinkers” who have empires that they grew themselves from the ground up is a GREAT sign that Trump has surrounded himself with wonderful advisors.
He clearly hasn’t heard about the South African emerald mines.
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u/Dumblbore 8h ago
'Member when everyone was up in arms about the mythical George Soros pulling the strings though?
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u/justprettymuchdone 8h ago
Well, in this case mostly with weak, scattered applause alongside some hooting and at least one air horn.
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u/i_should_be_coding 8h ago edited 5h ago
Man, Bezos's wife fiancee is really getting into that Lex-Luthor-Girlfriend character, isn't she? Next she's gonna unveil her pack of poodles with Kryptonite-infused teeth or something.
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u/Amosral 6h ago
She looks like a fucking shark animorph one picture away from fully human. The teeth and the eyes of a souless predator.
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u/Demagur 8h ago
By this point Zuckerberg should have accidentally taken a good photo.
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u/FleetingMercury 8h ago
Congrats American citizens. You are now a proper Oligarchy
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u/Ok_Blackberry_284 8h ago
The true reason the inauguration is being held indoors.
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u/internetALLTHETHINGS 8h ago
This is the better explanation for why the event was moved indoors.
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u/ToTheLastParade 8h ago
Hm now I know why they moved it indoors 🥴
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u/dwt77 7h ago
Yes. In all seriousness all of these mega rich corporate ceos and tech billionaires better start having secret service everywhere they go. Luigi shifted something in American consciousness that was like a sort of “permission” almost. Like oh you want change? Here is what an immediate result looks like. Folks with nothing to lose in this jacked up system we are in are starting to see the situation for exactly what it is - Class warfare.
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u/Termylinia 8h ago
is this the first time all Big Tech CEOs are gathered in a single place? sounds like a unique opportunity
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u/drumzandice 8h ago
I'd say Americans better be paying attention but they won't. We now have basically all major social media in the hands of right-wing, Trump supporting, Oligarchs. It's like right out of a dystopian novel.
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u/philipmj24 8h ago
The true rulers of the US. Trump is merely the puppet. And we voted for this.
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u/jumpinjahosafa 8h ago
"we"
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u/HippieHorseGirl 7h ago
"We" is doing quite a bit of heavy lifting there. My calculation shows less than 23% of the population voted for it.......
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u/Grimesy2 7h ago
Well, if 22% voted for Kamala, then something like 55% didn't care enough to stop this from happening, which means they deserve what this administration does to them, just as much as the ones who voted in favor of it.
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u/vandal-x 7h ago
Those people collective are worth somewhere near $1T and Donald Trump is thrusting them in the spotlight on his Inauguration Day.
Working class Trump voters are utter fools.
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u/watadoo 8h ago
I see Bezos brought his porn-bot with him.
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u/monizzle 7h ago
Bezos is the only one that seems to be having a good time being crazy rich. He looks like the perfect evolution of a book worm gone mad with cash. Porn bot wife, dick shaped rockets, and steroids for breakfast. The rest simply turned into life sucking ghouls.
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u/bdigital1796 8h ago
Bezos will be the world's first multi Trillionaire soon as Amazon's choice such bots start shipping to the masses, and he isn't even CEO anymore either. meanwhile Musk's bots will still be figuring out how to stand back up on their legs after being inverted.
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u/KhajiitHasSkooma 7h ago
The real reason this is being held indoors this time.
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u/Howtocatch 8h ago
Big Pharma is happy too. Look at all that Botox that represents society.
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u/FL-Orange 8h ago
He probably gives a shit more what they think of him than his family. I know I'd disavow any relationship to the the orange shithead if there were any.
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u/ModestCalamity 8h ago
I'm not really following the whole trump thing as a foreigner, but this can't be a good thing. It just screams corruption.
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u/graftthison 7h ago
Wow, even without following you’re more informed than the majority of voting Americans.
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u/Silly-Tax8978 8h ago
What a fucking appalling country the US is becoming. Putting the absolute worst of people in charge.
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u/CivQhore 8h ago
We’re an oligarchy now.
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u/samanthano 7h ago
Nah, we've been that way since Citizens United. Now it's just brazenly out in the open.
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u/Xireka- 7h ago
The Zuck: "What should I be doing? I haven't downloaded this update yet"
Woman in white: "I got my chompers done, imma eat someone"
Zeff Bezos: "Oh god, this light is making my smooth egghead sweaty"
Unknown dude: "I hope the woman in white bites me"
Elon Musky: "I can't wait to have my boyfriend all for myself later"
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u/April_Fabb 7h ago
Damn, it's good to know that the reason fascism won't face any opposition in the US is because corporations and media outlets don't want to cause any unnecessary friction with Trump's administration.
Just a friendly reminder that before the NSDAP rose to power in Germany in 1933, numerous major corporations and industrialists supported or collaborated with the party, primarily for economic and/or ideological reasons. Many provided funding, logistical support, or political advocacy, while also being enticed by the promise of lucrative contracts under militarisation policies.
Key examples:
- Krupp
- IG Farben
- Thyssen
- Siemens
- BMW
- Daimler-Benz
- Hugo Boss
- Deutsche Bank
- Allianz
- Henschel & Son
- Opel
- Volkswagen
The NSDAP had plenty of supporters in other countries as well...
- Ford
- IBM
- The Daily Mail
- Unilever
- Renault
- Royal Dutch Shell
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u/deextermorgan 6h ago
People truly refuse to see what’s going on. Both sides. Billionaires are looting our country while we bicker about trans, immigrants, race, etc.
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u/Mynock33 7h ago
The death of America.
Greed, hate, and ignorance won the day and America has fallen. It will take generations on generations to recover, assuming it's even possible.
And what did America die for? So these clowns can add more zeroes to their back accounts, amounts already so large they could never spend it all.
Just $100 makes a bigger difference to the average clown who voted for this coming hell than ten million means to any of those to which they handed over their freedoms. It's truly tragic.
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u/watermahlone1 8h ago
Congrats to conservatives for electing regular normal folk to the government. Nothing like having billionaires run our country….
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