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President Biden warns of 'oligarchy' as he bids farewell to five decades in politics (www.usatoday.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You mean the oligarchy he helped set up?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago

The Alzheimer must be kicking in

[+] [email protected] -13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Ukraine war was for the oligarchy. Administration justified the job creation of giving weapons, oil industry was funded with ammunition/profits to support Republicans and global warming denial, Europe subjugated to extortion and terrorism, and Blackrock has been able to buy up Ukrainian assets, especially farm land, at deep discounts, with Ukrainian loans likely to be swapped with more assets in the future.

Tech/AI oligarchy has been incorporated into "national security arms of fascism" with their competition suppressed, and Israel and low taxes for these ultra high margin tech oligarchs encouraged to fund the most pro oligarch candidate. Israel first oligarchs, which Biden/DNC pandered to, ensured the election result.

US extreme corruption of democracy for oligarchy and empire, including by Biden, as worst so far, is just firmly entrenched now that Israel supremacism is top US political devotion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Biden campaigning in 2020: I'm going to put guardrails in place to stop all this corruption and this slouch towards fascism. I'm going to Save the Soul of America.

Biden leaving office in 2025: Why didn't anybody do anything?!?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago

Biden: I am a proud zionist, and we would have to invent an Israel (to destablize middle east). Russian objections to NATO expansion don't matter, because Russians want to be controlled by US.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago

And Congress had to lift the ban on arming Nazis in order to send the arms to Ukraine.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/congress-has-removed-a-ban-on-funding-neo-nazis-from-its-year-end-spending-bill/tnamp/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1vv6p9k1z1o.amp

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago

Biden, fuck you too. Fuck the DNC.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dear god he is so unbelievably feckless. And the most astounding part is that he seems to genuinely think he did a good job all around.

He did not do a good job. The bare minimum for doing a good job is not letting fascists take over.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Letting them take over? Does authoring the Patriot Act and the crime bill leading to our present system of mass incarceration, not to mention his relationship with MBNA, qualify Biden as some kind of egalitarian in your world? The fascists have been here for a while, my son.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is a prime example of how the Overton window has shifted so far right, the average person has a political amnesia, and how strong the US corporate dictatorships propaganda is.

Joe Biden — the lifelong neoliberal who sowed the seeds for fascism, financed by corporate Americas plutocracy — had his history rewritten and reframed as though he's a progressive. While he may have adopted progressive policies in the last decade, he shifted with the political wind of the average voter, and didn't hold those beliefs until they became politically advantageous.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah well, 64 years ago Eisenhower warned about the dangers of the military-industrial complex and we've all seen how that warning got completely ignored.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Biden has been in federal politics for over 80% of the time since Eisenhower said that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Dawg we had Washington warn about the 2 party system, we never listen

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ironic that Biden brought that up when he called out the tech industrial complex. Americans do not learn.

[–] [email protected] 148 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Old man forgets that he was complicit in everything he says was wrong for the past four decades.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What did he do that makes him guilty?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

He's historically been more "traditionally conservative" and neoliberal than anywhere near progressive. Conservatism/neoliberalism has destroyed the middle class and crushed the entire working class; sowing the seeds for fascism.

Long history of support for Israel's genocide too. Very pro military industrial complex.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

He voted to increase loans and grants that made college ever more expensive for decades, and then in the aughts, sponsored the bill to make student debt non-dischargeable even in bankruptcy, effectively handcuffing generations past and future as well to the truckload of bullshit they are fed to get them into mountains of debt and then ensuring they are forever chained to it. https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/111100/documents/HHRG-116-JU08-20201202-SD007.pdf

Decades in the US government anyone is going to have lots of awful things they did, and I'm not going to argue it's his worst but it's one of the most crippling to anyone trying to better themselves and has destroyed decades of millions of Americans lives.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Didn't he also help sponsor/write the Patriot Act? He literally helped out fascists with that one if so. Hard to keep track/memory of all the corruption over there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well it's the internet so rather than introducing an idea attributing and condemning something they may or may have not done, we can just look it up rather than up voting with our feels.

Looks Iike he voted for the Patriot Act, didn't write it but claims the bill that became he patriot act was based on a bill Biden wrote in 1994 and he was proud of that, which is awful.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/surveillance-joe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Biden also voted for repealing Glass-Steagall, directly causing the worst financial crisis in most Americans lifetimes and billions more worldwide.

Obama, with notable Vice President Biden, also supported and enacted the largest bank bailout in history after said crisis, directly causing an economic spiral that continues into today because nothing was fucking fixed.

Look, I resist the accelerationist urge every day. But man is it fucking hilarious to watch capitalism collapse on itself, exactly as Marx wrote 100 years ago with no fucking internet.

The best part? All the brainwashed liberals going literally insane because the world is changing in ways they cannot comprehend.

What happens when an indoctrinated imperial core faces the real contradictions of their own ideology?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Theres also his role with Anita Hill and not believing women, empowering a shithead, and we've suffered with that SC justice now for decades.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm no political analyst so I don't know what he did .... what I do know is what he didn't do, namely to actually do something significant against the growing oligarchy that he is talking about.

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