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[–] 125 points 7 months ago (25 children)

Who owns ActivityPub? No one.

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  • [–] 92 points 7 months ago (6 children)
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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    You own it too, motherfucker!

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    [–] 61 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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  • [–] 48 points 7 months ago (21 children)

    And if people were to try to topple the oligarchy, Dems would toss them under the bus.

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    [–] 38 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It's been a problem ever since the Industrial Revolution, which oligarchs supplanted the aristocracy while class conflict remained. There were attempts at changing the status quo, or overthrowing it and replacing with a different system, there's so much discussion and debate, but actual success of the masses -- if we must have inclusion of those oppressed regardless of race, creed or faith -- has yet to be seen.

    One thing is for certain: this time peaceful and legal options are starting to be exhausted of their energy, as the moneyed enemy isn't going to yield easily.

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    [–] 29 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, now realize every establishment Democrat is also paid off by these demons too. Grassroots progressives or RIP the system, I have no other choice.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Curious why he said Twitch vs Amazon

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  • [–] 110 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Because he's stating the companies they own that control the narrative. Push the views they want and downplay ones that are critical. Twitch is more relevant than Amazon for that.

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    [–] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    The US has been an Oligarchy for quite a while now.

    Amongst other things that's why Bernie's campaign to be the Democrat candidate was torpedoed directly by the DNC so that Hillary "I got a cool half a million to give a speech to Goldman Sach's traders" Clinton got the nomination and then proceeded to lose to none other than old-money multi-millionaire Donald Trump.

    I mean, it's pretty obvious even before Reagan that the Hierarchy Of Power in the US has in many things had Money as a higher power than Democratically Elected Administration - or in other words, the inverse of the order that it should be in Democracy - and that has expanded to pretty much all things since.

    The US (and several other so-called "Democratic" nations) hasn't had Democracy for many years.

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    [–] 17 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

    forbes just released their 40th billionaires list:
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/pr/2026/03/10/forbes-40th-annual-worlds-billionaires-list-elon-musk-is-worlds-richest-person-ever-recorded/

    but… their own link is 404. 🤔 interesting. suspicious coincidences one might say.
    and while archive.org has multiple copies of every day, just since march 10th when the new one got released… their are no copies

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    [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    Eat the rich.

    You remember the Turducken craze? TIme for a Mubezuckison.

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    [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    There's a word for this: It's called Gleichschaltung

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    When the hell did Musk get to 800?

    This is nuts! I blinked and it happened

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    More an example of plutocracy, but definitely an example of both.

    Unless he's specifically talking about corporate holdings, then it's oligopoly, not oligarchy.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

    Why does every post ive seen like this leave out amazon?

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Not defending it, but probably because Amazon isn't media or social media. Well, Prime video is media, but it's not a behemoth like Washington Post or CNN, so it's not really relevant in the same way. I think the intent is to point out that almost every information outlet the average person learns about the world from is owned by a group of people small enough to get a table at a restaurant without having to call ahead. Fallout and The Boys being bundled in with your online shopping aren't really influencing people in the same way.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Amazon serves up a vast amount of the Internet, has live video feeds of almost every neighborhood, is a big player in the AI space, is a retail giant, a movie studio, a streaming platform, and a logistics juggernaut.

    It isn't strictly media/influence, but also so much more. Scary stuff.

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I thought it was Larry Ellison’s son that is about to own this?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skydance_Media

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