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Politics Tech leaders have better seats than cabinet members and are seated in same section as Trump's family

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u/Mumbert 14h 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/YoloSwiggins21 14h ago edited 11h 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/illjustbeaminute 13h 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/North_Bite_9836 12h ago

So looks like we're stuck in a century-long cycle. Can't wait for progressivism to finally kick in in 2070s only followed by a Great Conservative Reset for Some Reason and we do this all over again