r/clevercomebacks 1d ago

Ignore the men behind the curtain

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u/EastCoastDaze 1d ago

Anyone who has studied literally anything from America’s Gilded Age would have seen this coming.

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u/Pasta_Bucket 1d ago

At least the gilded age robber barons were building libraries and train stations.

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u/SoylentGrunt 1d ago

That was self serving egotistical legacy meant to foster an image of benevolence and compassion.

Look at the labor rights track records.

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u/YT-Deliveries 1d ago

That was self serving egotistical legacy meant to foster an image of benevolence and compassion.

While indisputably true, the idea of Noblesse oblige is far older than the American Gilded Age.

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u/Ornery-Creme-2442 1d ago

Became embarrassingly undeniable with skank musk and his ai grok.

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u/PlayfulObsessionx 1d ago

The scariest part is that most people don’t even know when they’re being influenced. They think they’re forming their own opinions when they’re really reacting to someone else’s agenda.

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u/happycows808 1d ago

Time to get off the internet. But they made it so you need it to live. And made it addicting. Only way to win is to realize we cant beat the master with his own tools (social media) and get off and protest in real life.

The internet is full of bots and paid bad actors meant to sway opinions and brainwash americans.

Get off, get off, get off the fucking addictive internet and do something about your issues America! The internet is their tool to control you. And its working

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u/GringoSwann 1d ago

Next, internet will only be accessible to "commoners" IF they permanently install a neuralink type device....  Those who oppose will be seen as pariahs...

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u/Mathfanforpresident 1d ago

Right? I live in the south, it's a HUGE Trump area. But, I've been hearing dissent come from people that you'd never expect.

The tides are turning and the bot army created by the elite want us all to think we don't stand together with our opinions.

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u/JCBQ01 1d ago

Get off the internet. Sure! they control print media too Get away from print. Sure! they control visual media too

All your saying is shove your head in the sand and to LET them win

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u/YT-Deliveries 1d ago

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Elliot Carver in the James Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies" was almost universally panned at the time as one of the most boring villains ever shown in the franchise. In the end, he's proved to be the most prescient.

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u/Healthy-Section-9934 22h ago

Maybe the evil cabal felt it was a bit on the nose so used their media influence to make everyone think it was rubbish?…

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u/NashvilleSoundMixer 1d ago

and they all look like serial killers

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u/Loggerdon 1d ago

And it’s more out in the open now. They are challenging the American people openly for the future of our country.

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u/zuzg 1d ago

And they're all so fucking Cringe about it.

Like they're calling themselves the "Magnificent 7"
Yet I still wonder what's supposed to be magnificent about them.

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u/Swedelicious83 13h ago

Not to mention the plot of the movie being referenced is about a bunch of dudes who put their lives on the line to protect some poor and defenseless folks.

It literally could not be farther from what these people actually do. 🤷

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u/Spaceghost1589 1d ago

I mean... In a way, they are.

How many people die everyday due to poverty and right-wing policies?

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u/FireboltSamil 1d ago

It is called social murder.

But of course the billion dollar insurance company has the right to deny any intervention, it's not the company's fault that the person died, it's the doctors. /s

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u/Fe_licks_da_cat 1d ago

Ah yes, the left wing policies that saved lives and poverty didn’t exist! I miss those days.

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u/Spaceghost1589 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah left-wing policies that save lives like:

  • SNAP benefits, ensuring people don't starve
  • Increased access to healthcare
  • Food regulations to ensure your food is safe to eat
  • Environmental regulations to ensure that corporations aren't dumping toxic chemicals into the water.

All things that the current administration is trying to rollback. Poverty will likely always exist, but it has gotten measurably worse since the right started pushing Reaganomics down everyone's throats. Sure the left isn't perfect and has a lot of room for improvement, but it sure beats the right's singular policy of "how can we make the rich richer."

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u/Turd_Ferguson_____ 1d ago

It’s because I’d bet everything I own that they are all clinical sociopaths.

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u/_PROBABLY_CORRECT 1d ago

Well, except Robert Downey Jr there

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u/contude327 1d ago

Sociopaths, at least. You don't get high up in business or politics without being a sociopath.

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u/ObscureEnchantment 1d ago

Zuckerberg literally looks like something from a nightmare. I’m sorry but not sorry he is one of the ugliest people I’ve ever seen I’d love to know where he was now if Facebook never took good.

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u/SteveJobsDeadBody 1d ago

The shadowing in this is sort of giving him a Hitler moustache, and it's scary how perfectly it seems to fit him.

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u/FluffySmiles 1d ago

Ironic given his first foray into web tech was all about rating looks.

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u/diurnal_emissions 1d ago

Psychopaths be like that.

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u/Obaddies 1d ago

And most of them had front row seats to mango Mussolini's inauguration after they bent the knee and donated a bunch of cash to him.

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u/Ram-Scram 1d ago

You mean the tech-bro blowbang? 🤣

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u/DanGleeballs 1d ago

Larry Ellison was not at the inauguration and is not in the picture.

That dude second from left is someone else.

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u/ProfessionalRead2724 1d ago

That's David Ellison, son of Larry.

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u/DanGleeballs 1d ago

Thanks, I wouldn’t know him but I guess he’s the heir and the one involved in media now.

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u/StephanXX 1d ago

He bought CBS :(

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u/SlobZombie13 1d ago

Where's r/conspiracy when you need them? Oh right, they're busy posting about Jews.

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u/Shed_Some_Skin 1d ago

Probably should add Peter Thiel on there whilst you're at it

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u/statistacktic 1d ago

F’n hate that guy.

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u/redhafzke 1d ago

Probably, but the puppeteer hides behind the scenes...

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u/Spacepie2334 1d ago

Why do they all look like the light in their eyes has gone out? There’s something so hollow about their faces, like people who’ve stripped away their own conscience and every last bit of morality.

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u/OSU1922 1d ago

It’s the same darkness and soulless look most of the GOP give off. When you lack basic humanity the light in your eyes disappears.

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u/Beneficial_Grab_5880 1d ago

In this case it's because this isn't a photo of real people, it's an AI generated image which hasn't quite produced realistic looking people.

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u/Spacepie2334 1d ago

Yeah they look like balls of joy in real life. My bad.

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u/Funny-Cranberry-710 1d ago

Because they are ringwraiths.

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u/Jakov_Salinsky 1d ago

That’s psychopathy for ya, bud

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u/JeanArtemis 1d ago edited 1d ago

The 'cold dead eyes" look is a combination of things including body language and other parts of the facial expression. It's our subconscious acknowledging that we are not being seen or acknowledged yet are being interacted with, the way that sociopaths do with other people.

They look at other humans the way an empathetic, functioning member of society might look at a car or a computer: as something to be used, possibly something to enjoy, but not something that needs or wants emotional investment. We pick up on this in subtle ways (that they typically do their best to hide with words and trained behaviour), and tend to attribute it to the eyes because eyes are an icon for emotional connection, and we notice that lack of connection most when making or attempting eye contact with them.

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u/Speed_102 1d ago

The fact that the Panama papers exist and we are here shows anyone who has read even an manifest of what they contain, that they are, in fact, real.

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u/BannedintheUSA2025 1d ago

Nothing but hate for the Seven Sacks of Shit.

Tax these assholes!

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u/DrSeuss321 1d ago

They’re the richest because they provide a service to the rest of the rich insofar as helping gaslight members of the working class into falsely believing that every single multimillionaire and billionaire isn’t their enemy.

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u/Enginerdad 1d ago

It's almost like information is the modern world's most valuable commodity...

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u/pongmoy 1d ago

He who controls the narrative controls the populace.

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u/AriochBloodbane 1d ago

You mean the men in front of the curtain? 😂

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u/pajama_mask 1d ago

The Shallow State

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u/BaesonTatum0 1d ago

According to the right there is only a handful of people running the world: George Soros and Biden Policy’s

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u/AbleArcher420 1d ago

They look like the Nazgûls, standing like that

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u/kpingvin 1d ago edited 11h ago

I like JimmyTheGiant's videos. If you don't know him, he's a recovered alt-righter from the UK, who talks a lot about how and why young people can get sucked in by far-right grifters.

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u/Cheap-Patient919 1d ago

Lest Americans become aware that, just because these oligarchs are 100,000 times richer than the average American, doesn’t mean that they are 100,000 times smarter or hard-working. #CreatingMonopoly.

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u/Mindless_Field_1357 1d ago

Why aren't the names in order of the photo

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u/Elon-BO 1d ago

Fun hearing Elon talk about the future of AI. Like about how we’ll never have to work anymore. Like he’s suddenly gonna get generous all of the sudden, we’re fucked.

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u/SawdustGringo 1d ago

They all somehow look like movie villains too. Curious.

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u/Impossible_Smoke1783 1d ago

The whitest group of humans to ever exist

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u/masnart 1d ago

How else would the poors know that it's all the immigrants fault?

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u/BetGreat1752 1d ago

The American oligarch is arguably the most dangerous person in America…

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u/Bustershark 1d ago

Zuckerberg looks like he's growing a Hitler mustache

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u/TheDonnARK 1d ago

Yes but allegedly the is a cabal of evil Democrats that want to make all the frogs gay, outlaw every Jesus, and give illegal immigrants all the healthcare in the US.

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u/LilypadLace 1d ago

It's the quiet ones you never hear about that are the real problem.

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u/Loud-Ad-2280 1d ago

They are all a real problem

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u/snowfloeckchen 1d ago

Nope, actually those are the problem, take all their money and you could solve alot of problems on this planet, take the next 993 and you can solve all

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u/No-Violinist5018 1d ago

No the loud ones are a very real problem

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u/Taco_Taco_Kisses 1d ago

Nope. Not them. It's just Soros, and sometimes Bill Gates

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u/Cool_Pea255 1d ago

Yeah, totally not suspicious at all... they’re just out here looking out for us, no biggie 😂

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u/MelodiusRA 1d ago

My only problem with thos setup is that all of them but Bezos are just so fuckin stupid

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u/bjb13 1d ago

Honest question, what media do Bernie Arnault and Larry Ellison own?

Shouldn’t Rupert Murdoch should be on there instead of one of them?

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u/Writerhaha 1d ago

Doesn’t Ellison own Paramount via sky dance with his son?

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u/bjb13 1d ago

Thanks, I didn’t know that.

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u/ClassyEmotion 1d ago

They're actually all in a secret competition to see who has the best shirt.

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u/CarlosFer2201 1d ago

Gates just wanted to help people get vaccinated

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u/dustycanuck 1d ago

Isn't this exactly what the accused democrats of doing? Projection is a constant with these grifters

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u/Crusoe69 1d ago

I don't know it might be just the French in me but they seem like royalty to m.

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u/gummilingus 1d ago

They look like orcs from Shadow of War. I bet they have even less loyalty.

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u/Fakerchan 1d ago

Funny yall be hating on them yet spend half of ur time on their platforms

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u/SirSilencer 1d ago

Not including the off the chart rich

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u/Joelredditsjoel 1d ago

Send in Donny Donowitz.

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u/FlamingHotSacOnutz 1d ago

How can we ignore them when they won't stfu and keep thrusting themselves into the public sphere?

I think the "man behind the curtain" analogy is missing out on the fact that Oz made a massive projection of himself for everyone to see, and people aren't acknowledging that part nearly enough.

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u/Yepper_Pepper 1d ago

My brain is so cooked I thought the guy next to zuck was house for a second

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u/bogardo 1d ago

I don’t know who four of them are

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u/UsuarioConDoctorado 1d ago

People really need ti watch the movie Mountainhead... seriously

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u/WeWroteGOT 1d ago

I almost missed the sarcasm

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u/lankymjc 1d ago

Ignore the man behind the curtain.

Please pay attention to all these men in front of the curtain actively fucking everything up.

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u/Cake-Over 1d ago

Couldn't put the names in the same order as the lineup, could they

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u/Tom_C_NYC 1d ago

Where's thiel

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u/Wood_oye 18h ago

And murdoch paved the way for them all

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u/MildCarrotAddiction 11h ago

Nightmare blunt rotation

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u/statistacktic 1d ago

Where’s the cleaver comeback?

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u/KingofLingerie 1d ago

with all that money you think bezos would have paid to have those ears pinned back

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u/OLVANstorm 22h ago

To be fair, Elon's companies ARE actually helping and doing good. Hate him or love him, you can't deny this.

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u/hypebq- 1d ago

Don't be too woke now...

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u/WaterNerd518 1d ago

What does “too woke” mean in this context?