• ileftreddit@piefed.social
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    23 hours ago

    They’re trying to stop him because he represents a new movement. The billionaires could have had it easy if they had let Bernie win in 2016, but they’ve pushed us for another decade, and now we will see what happens.

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    22 hours ago

    it turns out there are some billionaires and Wall Street CEOs who can’t stand the idea of a mayor who wants them to pay their fair share to create a city that everyone can afford.

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    New Yorkers are tired of an oligarchy that rewards billionaires like the Donvict and makes the working class pay for all of it.

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      20 hours ago

      Plenty destructive in his own right, his most important function is as their orange herring.

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    21 hours ago

    Rolling stone has their finger on the pulse more than usual lately, or was I just not paying attention before?

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      18 hours ago

      According to this it became more political in the 2000s but maybe there was an additional shift after 2017, when “Jann Wenner sold 49% of Rolling Stone to BandLab Technologies, a Singaporean company.”

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        PMC bought out BandLab several years ago. They’re the ones that got the majority share (51%) when BandLab got the minority.

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    18 hours ago

    What a story. The things rich people will do to defend their god-given right to grow their wealth. How much of their money they are willing to throw at it is in itself telling on how rich these fuckers actually are.

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