A pig-faced billionaire in tux and top-hat reclines on a lounger, dicing with the Angel of Death on a table made from a coffin; they float in a black, formless void. In the bottom left corner is a GOP-liveried elephant with Trump hair. In the top right corner is a Dem-liveried sickly, spavined jackass.

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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 04:16:54 JST Cory Doctorow

   The GOP says it's the "party of the working class" and indeed, they have promoted numerous policies that attack select groups within the American ruling class. But just because the party of unlimited power for billionaires is attacking a few of their own, it doesn't make them friends to the working people.

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