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0 pointsA4ET8a8uTh0_v21y ago0 comments

Huh? If anything, it now should be clearer than ever that it has been for a long time. The only difference is that the oligarch that happens to be benefiting from it is in the public spotlight, associated with and part of the current administration, and at the same time main guy for several publicly owned companies.

If the other oligarchs seem to be doing nothing, it is not because they have no power to wield.

Good grief. There are times when I read some posts and it is like reading youtube comments under madtv skit 'apple i-rack' asking what it means... how do you not know what it means?

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_2d301y ago· 2 in thread

> If the other oligarchs seem to be doing nothing, it is not because they have no power to wield.

Good grief, this is just an axiomatic belief, then. No evidence will sway you one way or another.

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2OP1y ago

What part of oligarch is hard to translate into sufficient amount of evidence that does not require me to prove that 1000 million dollars might result in an ability to wield influence that a a simple individual like meself would consider mildly outsized? At this point it is like gravity. You don't have to believe it. It is just is.

lawn1y ago

Of course they have more influence than you and I.

But that doesn't mean they have enough power to influence the president and to correct course.

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