Summary

Billionaires like Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy are spreading false claims to discredit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a federal agency protecting consumers from fraud and abuse.

Andreessen falsely accused the CFPB of politically motivated “debanking,” despite no evidence.

This rhetoric aligns with the “DOGE” project, led by Musk and Ramaswamy, which aims to slash government regulations and programs under the guise of efficiency.

Critics warn this effort will harm public services, benefit billionaires, and push privatization at the expense of ordinary Americans.

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[+] 122 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 105 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Remember kids, they want the government gone because they want to become the government to enrich themselves.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    More accurately they want to become the oligarchy. Like in Russia.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think this is partly why they got the stupid gomers thinking that Russia is some fantasy zone for white right wing xtian nationalists. For the oligarchs, Russia's set up is a dream, so they have to find stupid voters to vote against their own economic interests for backwards identity politics reasons...so they make Putin out to be sympathetic towards xtians and homophobia and "whiteness" for the benefit of the rubes in the U.S.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For the oligarchs, Russia’s set up is a dream

    Until they get defenestrated

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Putin's been in power for like 20 years, and despite putting the Russian people through hell these last two years and an actual coup attempt he's still going strong. Arguably you could say things didn't really change much even after Joseph Stalin died in 1953, aside from secession of several nations outside of central Russia, that it's all just one big continuation of the same system.

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  • [–] 84 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh no, what will we do if billionaires control the U.S. government.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907

    And those are just J.P. Morgan.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is your point that this is fear mongering, or that the struggle between classes has been an ongoing fight for most of recorded history?

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The latter. I mean, America was founded by a tobacco company and people so weird in their religiosity, they were kicked out of 17th century Europe.

    I do think we can solve the oligarch problem. So, part of me was like, “We’ve met this challenge before, motherfuckers.” It wasn’t meant to dismissive but I’m pretty sure I could open hand slap Elon Musk and 24 of his 38 kids would feel it.

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    All billionaires must go by any means necessary.

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    [–] 51 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Americans will not destroy the military or the police state. We need those to do harm against our enemies and to punish the undeserving.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You don't understand. You make them non-functional through incompetency first, then change their purpose and voila...neither.

    Then you pay Elon Musk for fleets of Tesla robots that don't work to do your dirty work 🤣

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    From what I've seen under Eric Adams in New York, you never actually lay any of these people off. You just bring in a robot that bumbles around a subway terminal until it breaks down, while a squad of officers guard it with lethal force.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Nothing new.

    Americans are easy marks. Not most of our faults, we're poorly educated by design. Critical thinking is college level here.

    Few of us have any interest in being a society, any snake oil con man has to do is tell us we'll be rich!.. Just fuck over our fellow humans first, lol, and we'll come a running to that ballot box to literally destroy the very safetynet under our own feet. It's quite pathetic to witness.

    Then we'll spend decades kneeling in front of them waiting for golden showers of prosperity, when we're not at one another's throats out of the zero sum mindset this herp derp land of rugged individualism propagates.

    Our hyper individualist, disdain for the very concept of society is gallows hilarious. It's like bragging that we're conditioned to let one another drown. Yay? Got to hand it to the marketers on that one.

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    Rich people are like other rich people, more than they are like their fellow countrymen, or ethnic group, or religious group. Anything a billionaire says is good for "everyone" needs to be understood in that light: the "everyone" they see are "all the people I associate with", meaning "other rich people".

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    All you have to do is convince the ignorant, unwashed masses that you're speaking for them, not about them, and they will let you have whatever you want.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    But wait, they’re all wearing Tshirts instead of suits on these podcasts. Are you saying that doesn’t mean they’re one of us?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    And the Tankies and Anarchists both are cheering them on despite bullshitting to themselves that they're opposed to the Billionaires.

    A planet overfull of people in the Age of Information and we've got Billions of fucking Rubes.

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    Gaurenteeing that's exactly what we will do. Hopefully i be mostly dead.

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