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The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV (www.nytimes.com)

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Dec. 14, 2025

Today, billionaires are still flooding politics with their money and still reaping the benefits, but they won’t stop yapping about it.

Elon Musk bragged about his support for President Trump, to whose campaign and allied groups he donated more than $250 million. He loudly attempted to buy votes in Pennsylvania. Then he leveraged it all into a cruel and chaotic effort to dismantle federal agencies. Marc Andreessen’s tech-heavy venture capital firm publicly pledged $100 million to target lawmakers who attempt to regulate artificial intelligence; Mr. Andreessen then mocked the pope for suggesting some ethical guardrails around the technology. Bill Ackman announced that he and his pals were prepared to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat Zohran Mamdani, and urged Mr. Trump to call in the National Guard if that effort failed and Mr. Mamdani’s mayoralty met his worst expectations.

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[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Time for the proles to go full peasant (with pitchforks).

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You were always more of a gunpowder guy, guy.

Don't forget the national razor

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Isn't the national razor a French thing? In which case Guy woild be pronounced like 'ghee' which is butter. And he's a male. It always comes back to buttery males.

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's no class war guys. Shhh

[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

The first rule of class war is, you don't talk about class war.