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Pluvious

(4,797 posts) Tue Dec 24, 2024, 04:46 PM 15 hrs ago

Musk dined at Rupert Murdoch's apartment just before Election Day...

Like shocking to no one

In case we needed a reminder that our current political problems stem from billionaires using modern media to influence public opinion and corrupt democracies. Fox, Twitter, WSJ, NY Post, Tubi, Fox Nation …

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Billionaire oligarchs know that media gives them power.
Facebook, Zuckerberg, Anchutz, Uihlein, Koch, Sinclair, Singer, Adelson — Democrats have been far far FAR too slow to reckon with modern media. Republican oligarchs have been running circles around us for decades."

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Don Moynihan
‪@donmoyn.bsky.social‬

If you don't count family members, there are about 44 people on this list. I counted four women, all of whom work for Musk.

"The Men and Women Swirling Around Elon Musk"

A look at the people who influence the world’s richest man,
and those who stand to gain from their association with him now.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/23/business/elon-musk-trump-family-friends-backers.html

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Musk dined at Rupert Murdoch's apartment just before Election Day... (Original Post) Pluvious 15 hrs ago OP

Two Immigrants, naturalized citizens, who are trashing our country and democracy delisen 15 hrs ago #1

The billionaires are united in their theft of the US government. Irish_Dem 14 hrs ago #2

delisen

(6,574 posts)

1. Two Immigrants, naturalized citizens, who are trashing our country and democracy

Reply to Pluvious (Original post)

Tue Dec 24, 2024, 05:05 PM

15 hrs ago

Can they be deported? Possibly. Musk reportedly used a student visa to gain entry, then never attended school but stayed anyway.

Irish_Dem

(59,651 posts)

2. The billionaires are united in their theft of the US government.

Reply to Pluvious (Original post)

Tue Dec 24, 2024, 05:51 PM

14 hrs ago

It was like taking candy from a baby.
They own all three branches in January.

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