Now you'll REALLY have a reason to hate those wealthy oligarchs...
Leaving "Mass Man" in the dust.
from Google AI:The "mass man" is a philosophical and sociological concept that describes an average, conformist individual who lacks distinct individuality, rejects personal excellence, and is easily manipulated by mass media and societal elites. Rather than referring to a specific socioeconomic or working class, it describes a psychological type and attitude that can exist at any level of society—from laborers to highly educated specialists. [1, 2, 3, 4]The term was popularized by Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset in his seminal 1930 book, The Revolt of the Masses.
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Yaaaaawn.
Fascism = Wealthy Oligarchs
America has 3,000 of em controlling government and the economy. Driving ever more wealth to themselves at the expense of the remaining 327+ million Americans.
It is easy to hate fascism and billionaire oligarchs.
Somebody has to lead. Preferably someone with skin in the game.
...and NOT some ridiculous "mass man.
Les Carpenter wrote
It is easy to hate fascism and billionaire oligarchs
My Reply; It is easy to hate sssholes like you
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Cretin... yawn... there CANNOT be 3000 "oligarchs controlling government".
BY DEFINITION!
Yawn. But you are cretun. In your cretinism you defying meaning if words even.
Yawn.
During the height of the House of Medici in Florence and the Italian Renaissance (15th to 16th centuries), there was no single fixed number, as historical records note that roughly 100 great patrician and merchant families actively led and cycled through the offices of the Florentine Republic.
Among them, a core group of prominent, wealthy, and rival banking or merchant dynasties held the most political and economic influence alongside or in opposition to the Medici:
• The Strozzi: The primary rivals to the Medici, early on even wealthier than them through international banking, before being politically ruined and exiled.
• The Albizzi: An ancient and powerful family that led Florence’s oligarchic republican government from 1382 until Cosimo de' Medici outmaneuvered them and forced them into exile in 1434.
• The Pazzi: A noble and wealthy banking family famous for launching the failed 1478 Pazzi Conspiracy to assassinate Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici.
• Other Influential Families: The Rucellai, Pitti, Bardi, Peruzzi, Tornabuoni, and Salviati, many of which were tied to the Medici through business partnerships or strategic marriages
Poor Ole’ Delusional Joe. His “Shrine” to an era of Fraud, Theft and Failure Is Having lots of Difficulty Getting Funded.
He might have better luck getting an Ice Cream Stand built at Rehoboth beach where his Corpse was dumped for so much of His Time Pretending to Be President.
If you were eagerly waiting for the opportunity to purchase tickets for the Joseph R. Biden Presidential Library, you might think about doing something else.
As the “Former President”, who was largely remembered for his Mentality has been Rapidly Declining, and his Physical and Cognitive Health, Accompanied by His Incoherent Rambling and Nonsensical Policy Goals, Risks Being Forgotten as Plans for a Library Looks very Increasingly Bleak.
The U.K.’s Daily Mail reported Wednesday that the Joe and Jill Biden Presidential Library Foundation, according to tax documents from 2024, has just $4 million in funds. That’s all money left over from the former President’s Extremely Failed campaign that year. It had hoped to raise $11.3 million, but the total still seems to be modest to put it mildly for a Presidential Library. Knowing that Biden's actual handlers were the real Presidents so why have a library for the Fake, and Delusional Guy?
Perhaps they’ll give him a cabin in the woods somewhere, that would be more of a deserving tribute to the Worst President in Us History.
Arguably the biggest Fraud in American Political History Joe Biden deserves No Respect or Recognition Other than as a modest Monument to the Stupidity of Those Who Voted for Him. I am sure that someone, somewhere cares for him. But you can bet it isn’t me.
The Reichwing fascist are so fucking ignorant it's almost amusing. The people having the most skin (and sweat) in the game are the producers, the Working class.
As has been correctly stated, those who can do, those who can't depend on those who can.
The fucking billionaire oligarchs would have absolutely nothing were it not for those who actually do the work making their ideas work.
Get the Hell out of here
Oh my!! So threatened by the truth. It figures. Every MAGAt and oligarch is petrified their delusions and lies will eventually crumble and no longer be accepted as anything but bullshit.
You ignore the Hegel's Master-Slave dialectic, Les. You no longer see the Masters as your Equals... you imagine yourself superior.
Hegel’s master-slave dialectic (also called lordship and bondage) is a philosophical concept from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's 1807 book, the Phenomenology of Spirit. It explains how human self-consciousness and freedom develop through an initial struggle for recognition between two people.
Core Stages of the Dialectic
• The Encounter: Two independent consciousnesses meet, and each wants the other to recognize its freedom and worth.
• The Life-and-Death Struggle: Because neither wants to back down, they fight a dangerous battle to prove who is superior. One person values life more and yields, becoming the slave (or bondsman), while the winner becomes the master (or lord).
• The Trap of Mastery: The master wins absolute control and uses the slave to work and provide things, but this victory fails. The master is only recognized by an object-like person (the slave), meaning the recognition is one-sided, empty, and unsatisfying. Furthermore, the master becomes totally dependent on the slave for survival.
• The Rise of the Slave: Through forced labor and fear of death, the slave actually transforms the physical world and gains mastery over nature. By creating things through work, the slave realizes their own independent power, creativity, and self-consciousness.
Key Takeaway
The power dynamic eventually flips in meaning: the master becomes weak and dependent, while the slave grows capable of true freedom and self-awareness. Hegel argues that genuine human self-consciousness requires mutual, equal recognition rather than one person dominating another.
The workers traded all the production risks for a surplus risk-free safety of a fixed wage. The capitalist oligarchs bear ALL the risks.
'Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Franklin
"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
The Answer: Franklin replied immediately, "A republic, if you can keep it." (Some historical accounts record his full response as, "A republic, Madam, if you can keep it.
Don't want to be a slave? Then learn to take RISKS.
No one owes you validation, Les. You need to earn it.... like Elon has.
No -FJ, that is your delusional beliefs. And it figures. One who sees themselves Superior to others project their conceit onto others.
This dudes motto and mantra: When one forgets their reified beliefs and societal conditioning the possibility of wisdom dawns.
It is not me who has the closed mind. But it's okay that you're happy with yours.
All Elon deserves is contempt. The reason that it is so you're far too blind the see, let alone understand.
But carry on. I know you will
No when one abandons certainty (like that of the Buddhists), THAT is when the possibility of wisdom emerges.
Buddhism is the ultimate in"reified" belief.
SpaceX is contemptable? Tesla? Neuralink? How so?
Musk is contemptable. Not his ideas.
But your reified beliefs and conditioned mind cannot grasp what would make Musk contemtable.
Your ignorance of Buddhism, combined with your self induced delusions renders you ignorant and unable to see truth.
Believe me when I assure you I am neither looking for nor do I need your validation. For I would be nothing but ashamed were I to think like you.
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