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   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs I mean, they've been out and out routing for fascism for a while. Network State and American Dynamism go together

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 10:14:22 JST Nicole Parsons

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     Profits are private, losses are public.

     When any American business fails nowadays, & the government is so co-opted, it bails out billionaires.

     Taxpayers pay for a billionaire's irresponsible greed.
     And then there are consequences...
     https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/the-real-cost-of-the-2008-financial-crisis
     https://www.propublica.org/article/the-bailout-was-11-years-ago-were-still-tracking-every-penny
     https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/coronavirus-bailout-spending/
     https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/07/wall-street-fed-bailout-304362

     https://www.usatoday.com/money/blueprint/personal-finance/government-bailout-relief-programs/

     https://www.wptv.com/money/real-estate-news/sen-sheldon-whitehouse-sends-letter-to-citizens-insurance-ceo-fears-fla-may-seek-federal-government-bailout

     https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/19/bush-bails-out-us-automakers-dec-19-2008-1066932

     https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/bank-bailout/

     https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/silicon-valley-bank-getting-government-bailout-not-2008-sense-rcna74581

     https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/us/politics/bailout-biden-financial-crisis.html