We literally have the best government money can buy, and our nation, our very survival depends on unflinchingly addressing this pugnacious problem of money as free speech foisted on us by the unaccountable SCOTUS, “Repugnicans” and Corporate Democrats.

Founder of #TheLever, #DavidSirota joins #TheMajorityReport's #EmmaVigeland to discuss his new book, “MASTER PLAN: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”

#US #Economics #Politics #SCOTUS #CitizensUnited #Corporatocracy #Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #Illiberal #AntiDemocratic #Monopolistic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRyS1goUc5s

“Why don’t #Democrats tell #America the truth — that these problems are largely due to #monopolistic #corporations and robber-baron #billionaires? Because too many #Democratic politicians are afraid to bite the hands that feed their campaign coffers.” robertreich.substack.com/p/the-new-vo...

The Future of the Democratic P...

“The #DST debacle reveals Canada's deeper #strategic failure: we think reactively, not systemically. Instead of building capacity to shape #digitalmarkets, we built mechanisms to tax #monopolistic behaviour” barryappleton.substack.com/p/trumps-gam...

Trump's Game of Thrones:

“But if #Americans are worried about unsettling cultural shifts, they really ought to fear the #anti-democratic and #monopolistic #culture that #AI will bring, and the impacts that AI will have on #American #jobs” thebulletin.org/2025/04/the-...

The real ‘Great Replacement’

The game, originally invented by Elizabeth Magie in 1904 as the Landlord's Game, was designed to demonstrate the negative consequences of #monopolistic practices and the unequal distribution of #wealth. Magie's intention was to show how a system that allows a few players to accumulate vast wealth while others are left with nothing can lead to social and economic #inequality.

#UK #Standards #money #Phone #BT #Broadband I never cease to be amazed at the poor service from #monopolistic #Telephone #Broadband supplier. Months without a proper service so I change my server. And lo, riding over the horizon comes the bean counter, "ere, you can't do that, you owe us x zillion squid for our appalling service". Well chaps, you can sing for it. Breach of contract is 'tort' & I'll happily keep your penny pinchers busy for years. & a free plug for Zen services 🇩🇪 of course!

@MoiraEve@mastodon.world

#TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#USpol
#Tariffs #Economics

(4/n)

...the 19th and 20th century popularized the saying, Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant, many residents will learn the meaning of this latin phrase of the late #Roman period./s

PS:
Historically, #Mercantilism 2) has never worked as officially intended, except for the smugglers and war-mongers:

"#Mercantilism 2) led to the creation of #monopolistic trading companies, such as the...

2)
https://www.britannica.com/money/mercantilism

Reactionary, Racist, anti-Democratic, faux-Centrists and Far-Right Social Regressives are intellectually, emotionally, and socially dishonest.

No, the ‘Woke Agenda’ Isn’t Ruining Society ― Here’s Why
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
#Culture #Politics #LGBTQ #Trans #Illiberal #Monopolistic #brOligarchy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfYP9uJ5gUE

#Illiberarl #antiDemocratic #Monopolistic #Totalitarian #Techfeudalist #Corporatocracy
Elon Musk’s Terrifying Plan For America's Future
#Politics #Economics #PayPalMafia #SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLR1fPxZImI

Things like #repair and #gardening are acts of #resistance in our current capitalistic system. Growing your own food means you don't have to put as much money in the pockets of the #monopolistic grocery stores. Repairing broken things avoids putting money in the pockets of the #monopolies pushing their "stuff" on us. Feed your communities, share your stuff, repair your and your neighbor's stuff. Live outside of the #corporate #greed as much as possible. Start or join a #library of things.

Obviously, not soon or fast enough…
The Oligarchy's Power is Waking America Up
Robert Reich
@rbreich
#Illiberal #antiDemocratic #Monopolistic #Oligarchy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7NbFvHozw8

First personal spotting in the wild of #LLMs used to #enshittify the #copyediting of #academic #publications: in an absolutely unsurprising development, the resulting disfunction is offloaded onto the authors, who are required to do more (#unpaid) work to clean everything up. #Monopolistic #concentration in the #publishing #business extracting #rents under guise of #technological #innovation— just like it says on the tin.

The role this Oligarch and his cronies played in literally capitalizing, enriching, and then taking sole credit for the state funded, collaborative labor of unsung scientists and engineers over generations is an obscenity!

‘Free Speech’ Grifter Shares Billionaire’s Demonic Vision For America’s Future
#SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport #Politics #News #Oligarch #antiDemocratic #Illiberal #Monopolistic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTLWMrAycF8

One can really see this is an older video, as it misses not only #0BSD between #PublicDomain and #MIT but also #SSPL right of #AGPLv3 in a tab that's right of it called "#AssetDenial" or "#Monopolistic" or just "#AssholeLicensing" and a tab right of that for "#SourceAvailable" licensing, but I get ahead of myself...

#Sarcasm #OpenSource #Licensing #Copyleft #Cipyright #Copywrong #rant #vent #venting

Fucking hell - there's no way to sign out of the Android #YouTube app!
Not without signing out of every #Google app on the phone 😳
I still use Maps and the Play Store, so how does that work?

I've had it with #bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #monopolistic bullshit 😡

This is #datarape - I DO NOT CONSENT ❌

The discussion of what news media calls "price controls" needs to be framed a bit differently.

It's not "price controls" ala Nixon and 1971 gas prices.

It's Stopping the Scalping by pharmaceutical, food, entertainment ticket mongers and other #middlemen #parasites that infest the US #economy.

The goal is not to limit consumption of a resource, it's to limit illegal unreasonable #profits of #amoral #corrupt #monopolistic #corporations.

#StopTheScalping campaign

@ada @hopland @Viss I hope this shit will be banned by #FTC & @EUCommission as #AntiCompetittive & #monopolistic behabiour by #Google!

Black Alabama Mayor Allowed to Lead Town After White Officials Blocked Him From Office
#BlackMastodon #PoliteWhiteSupremacy #AntiBLack #RacistGaslighting #AntiDemocratic #Illiberal #Monopolistic #Neoliberal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiEU2yfGHFo

Given I'm not at all interested in Windows 11, because it seems shittier than 10 and the reasons for inelligibility of this particular laptop are trivial crap, and Windows 10 was trumpeted as the last Windows product; I'll sit tight and wait for the regulatory muscle to point out the error of their ways.

#Monopolistic #Microsoft

Find out more takes you to a web page which tells you less.

I did discover S mode though, which is a 'Security' installation which only allows apps from the Microsoft Store and Edge as the only browser. That must go down well in the EU.

#Monopolistic #Microsoft

Edit: only default browser.

Additional: The idea of a Security version did make me laugh but not enough to forgive MS Product Marketing for being cunts.