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#robberbarons
how many #WealthAddict #robberbarons can you name? hint: combined these 10 are valued at 1.9 TRILLION us dollars.
fuck that off. #EatTheRich
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@mcnado it's been clear to me from the beginning of the second term that the president's primary intent is to ransack the government to enrich himself and his friends with taxpayer money. The tax cuts for the rich may be the most obvious move in that direction. But make no mistake that this administration will take every opportunity to siphon public funds into their own pockets.
The Republicans' financial responsibility reputation is a damned lie.
With reference to … This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/meta-ai-lawsuit (via https://wandering.shop/@jwilker/114353879701813415):
"Robber baron" is a pejorative term used to describe powerful and wealthy American industrialists and financiers during the late 19th century, an era often referred to as the Gilded Age. The term implies social criticism, suggesting these businessmen were unethical, unscrupulous, or ruthless in their practices.
They were accused of amassing their fortunes through exploitative methods, such as monopolizing large industries (often by forming trusts), restricting output to raise prices, exploiting workers through practices like wage slavery, engaging in unethical business dealings, squashing competition, and influencing government officials. The term combines the idea of criminal behavior ("robber") with illegitimate aristocracy ("baron").
Some prominent figures commonly labeled as robber barons include John D. #Rockefeller, Andrew #Carnegie, Cornelius #Vanderbilt, J.P. #Morgan, and Leland #Stanford, among others.
My grandfather was a Y1.9K baby. He was born in 1900 for those who don’t do decimals. Life was hard, even for white folk born into poverty in West Virginia, USA. Forced to drop out of school at the end of 8th grade, he wasn’t even 16 when he became the family’s main income source. He worked in a coal mine until fate stepped in. I could go on. Apparently, we are making #robberbarons great again
> Spare a thought for the poor billionaires who backed Trump — and hate tariffs | Marina Hyde https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/08/poor-billionaires-backed-trump-hate-tariffs-elon-musk
The only thought I spare for those robber baron #assholes is the desire to #BringBackGuillotines. Fuck 'em.
Some scenes from the #AugustaME #HandsOff rally (not my images -- from the Kennebec Journal)
by Hannah Kaufman, Kennebec Journal
AUGUSTA — "By about 2:20 p.m., the protest in Augusta had effectively ended, but for a smaller group, the march continued, with some making their third and fourth laps around the block.
Organizers had intended the march to take place on the sidewalk, but the width of Capitol Street was filled with a throng of protesters shortly before 2 p.m.
"Vivian Myers-Jones, a protester from New Brunswick, Canada, said an organizer estimated 3,000 people were at the protest during its peak.
"Several students from Bates College in Lewiston said they came to Augusta to protest in support of #Palestine. One student, Dylan, said action on the Israel-Hamas war is overdue.
"'We’ve been seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes for years now, and it’s overdue that people are doing something,' he said. 'We’ve been trying to make change, and I think some people are being shocked into action now, which is good to see.'
"Another student, Robert, said it’s important to exercise the right to protest.
'We’re fighting to continue fighting — about Palestine, about everything that’s going on in this country,' he said.
It’s important that we come together now.'"
Original article:
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/04/05/live-updates-mainers-rally-throughout-the-state-to-protest-trump-policies/
Archived version:
https://archive.md/k03Q5#selection-2017.0-2018.1
#MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #EatElon #FreePalestine #HandsOffOurRights #NoDOGE #FASCISTS #NoTaxBreaksForTheRich #RobberBarons #DeportOligarchs #ImpeachImperialImbeciles
#TaxTheRich, it’s a decent start
Posted by Bluebird | Mar 12, 2025
"As incredible as it may seem, just a handful of #billionaire #Mainers could fund the state for years out of their own pockets and still live out their lives as multimillionaires. So when socialists say tax the rich, we mean more than raising what billionaires pay by 1% or 2%, we mean raising their taxes by 25% or 50% or more to start with. We mean we should take back the wealth they have collected by exploiting all the people who have worked for them, all the land they have stolen, and all the resources they have grabbed all around the world. In the meantime, socialists often support smaller measures whenever we feel like they are a way to raise funds to help our class, raise consciousness, and build organization.
However, increasing taxes on the wealthy isn’t a permanent solution to the persisting problems of #capitalist society. It’s a good start, but it’s not enough.
[...]
"By all means tax [the wealthy] at a rate of 95%, 99%, 100%, 200%! Take back everything they have stolen from us. Truly solving the causes of social inequality cannot happen until the property of the capitalist class has been expropriated, but for the reasons explained above, simply taxing them at any rate will prove ineffective given enough time.
"Moreover, tax increases tend to antagonize capitalists. Sooner or later, as we are seeing very clearly now in Washington, they will transform their economic might into raw political power to claw back even the small social costs that generations of #SocialMovements and trade unions have imposed on them. During such times, as grim as our prospects may seem, it becomes clearer than ever that so long as the capitalists have all the power, even the most progressive public policy can only be temporary.
"How much longer will capitalist industry be allowed to #pollute the planet? How many more times does the economy have to crash? How many more wars will we be forced to fight on the behalf of these #RobberBarons? How many more lives will be ruined by #debts, mass #layoffs, denied insurance claims, and more? Why should we tolerate a system that exploits those whose labor keeps society functioning?"
Read more:
https://pineandroses.org/opinion/www-pineandroses-org/
#MaineDSA #Socialism #CapitalismMustDie
Good review here on #tariffs & their historical role in #industrialization
Trump loves #GildedAge tariffs - A great time for the rich but not for the many https://buff.ly/d6HYiRH
#history #McKinley #RobberBarons #incometax #laborunions #socialreform #immigration #MarkTwain
📻 "America's new Gilded Age"⤵️
🔗 https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/03/14/america-gilded-age-trump-2024-president
🏷️ #USA #Trump #Musk #Government #GildedAge #RobberBarons #Politics #WBUR #OnPoint
This is what MAGA's idea of 'fighting corruption' looks like. #RobberBarons
Read Aldous Huxley, complete essays, volume IV, 1936-1938 and understand what happens to this world (again) going to war because of robber barons' capitalism combined with fascism and eugenics theories.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30569.Complete_Essays_Vol_IV
”…the workers whose labor kept the mines and factories producing toiled fourteen to sixteen hours a day in dangerous conditions for little money, with no workmen’s compensation or disability insurance if they were injured. The era has become known as the Gilded Age, dominated by so-called robber barons.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 3, 2025
#robberbarons #oligarchy #broligarchy
@tagesschau Die Orange presst die Ukraine aus wie eine Zitrone... #us #robberbarons
https://resist.bot/petitions/PAMQOD
#ResistBot #ukraine #USA #America #foreignpolicy #politics #tRump #shitler47 #fascist #dictator #sovereignty #EU #UK #Russia #Putin #Poland #WhoIsNext #RussianAsset #Invaders #Invasion #NationalSecurity #International #HumanRights #Law #Justice #Patriotic #WW2 #WW3 #Peace #Colonizers #Environment #NaturalResources #RobberBarons #NATO
"And all without building a single hospital or school like the decent robber barons did..."
(h/t Doug105 and BobSF_94117 at joemygod.com)
#USPol #oligarchy #oligarchs #broligarchy #RobberBarons #Trump #DOGE #project2025 #Republicans #TrumpLies #RepublicansLie #lies #DigitalRobinHood
@red_rooster Tja, das Ergebnis, wenn man #robberbarons wie #farage #johnson #trump #musk #weidel #afd die Regierung überlässt.
@SocraticEthics It is a giant hypocrisy to talk about the good for the US tax payers, while doing everything to screw overbthe US tax payers over and over since #trumps inauguration.
Also, it seems what the #trump government is indifferent about (because of being bold #robberbarons ) is what they set to zero is having any leverage over (once allied) countries including Ukraine. The price tag for this destruction will be paid in the future.
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