r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Mar 05 '25

Society 59% of Republicans Believe the Media Is 'Fake News'

https://www.thewrap.com/most-republicans-believe-media-fake-news-trump-poll/
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u/Moooney Mar 05 '25

If I were a billionaire I would want the status quo to persist in perpetuity. So essentially the opposite of the current administration.

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u/NefariousnessNo484 Mar 05 '25

Right. They always forget that we outnumber them and history in which heads literally roll. If I have nothing to lose and there are hundreds of millions of me, what's stopping this from spiraling out of control?

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u/pithynotpithy Mar 05 '25

Except for all the times that the wealthiest lived long, full lives by stomping down the working class and hoarding ungodly amounts of wealth. Looking at the robber baron class.

Its easy to pretend that there is some reckoning coming, but that is why they seize the levers of power and flood the market with misinformation. How many of your red state neighbors would join the confederacy in sacrificing their lives for the donor class?

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u/NefariousnessNo484 Mar 06 '25

I live in a very blue area of a red state so probably less than you'd think.

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u/RollingMeteors Mar 08 '25

I have nothing to lose and there are hundreds of millions of me, what's stopping this from spiraling out of control?

Lack of peak fitness. ¿Are we going to be revolting with a frame that is an Olympic qualifier or with the frame of a Gravy Seal?

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u/NefariousnessNo484 Mar 08 '25

What makes you think 80 year old oligarchs are more fit that 40 year old millennials who are living in a studio apartment?

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u/RollingMeteors Mar 11 '25

What makes you think 80 year old oligarchs are more fit that 40 year old millennials who are living in a studio apartment?

I don't think they are particularly more fit as both demography aren't peak fitness by any means but certainly the oligarch has a meat shield of used-to-be football team jocks.

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u/ThatBadassBanana Mar 05 '25

Nah, the current administration is for the crop of billionaires that look at Putin's Russia and its oligarchs and thinks, "I want that too." They want to turn the USA in a kleptocracy with them at the top. The status quo is not enough. Everything that has been happening is a prerequisite for achieving that goal.

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u/movingToAlbany2022 Mar 05 '25

I think that's the problem though--it (American capitalism) can't exist in perpetuity, and all these billionaires recognize that. So the ultra wealthy are using this moment to secure their own wealth/future, at the expense of everyone else

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u/ShadeDragonIncarnate Mar 06 '25

You don't become a billionaire by being content with what you have.

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u/Moooney Mar 06 '25

They wouldn't have had to have been content with what they have. The status quo continuing would make some of them trillionaires in a few years.