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   Angus McIntyre (angusm@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 10:56:00 JST Angus McIntyre

   Now that the US is officially aligned with one of the nastiest dictatorships on the planet, if any self-styled conservative utters the words 'freedom' or ‘democracy’ in your hearing, you are fully authorized to slap the words out of their mouth.

   It's over. We're done.

   (*) You may say that the USA was NEVER one of the good guys, but now we've given up even pretending.

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 10:55:55 JST Nicole Parsons

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     @FrozenPeach @allynkhine @angusm

     The Bradley Foundation has been going after democracy in every swing state since their loud & proud Bircher founder, Harry Bradley passed away in 1965, & dedicated his money to ending the Voting Rights Act.
     https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/21/trump-maga-swing-states-voters

     https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/08/weaponized-philanthropy-document-trove-details-bradley-foundations-efforts-build

     https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/are-swing-states-ready-2024

     https://www.exposedbycmd.org/research-cited/conservative-money-behind-attacks-labor/

     https://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/8/kochs_anti_civil_rights_roots

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lynde_Bradley

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

     They bought corrupt Justices until John Roberts overturned it in 2013.

     1/3

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     @Npars01 @allynkhine @angusm

     Koch heads are OG evil. They targeted Wisconsin's excellent education system 30+ years ago. You don't hear enough about them. Thanks for your post.

     Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     @allynkhine @angusm

     Reminder that oligarchic rule is inherently unstable, unsustainable, and brief.
     https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/koch-brothers-family-history-sons-of-wichita/

     It always dissolves into factional warfare amongst the next generation.

     https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/trusts_estates_prof/2025/02/rupert-murdoch-collapsed-during-breakfast-with-rebekah-brooks.html

     https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/feb/22/were-clearly-heading-towards-collapse-why-the-murdoch-empire-is-about-to-go-bang

     https://thedemlabs.org/2023/08/05/murdoch-media-empire-global-cancer-on-democracy/

     https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/09/rupert-murdochmedia-empire-children

     https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/magazine/rupert-murdoch-succession-family-trust-fight.html

     https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/the-koch-brothers/

     https://scholars.org/contribution/making-sense-koch-network

     https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/01/koch-network-a-cartological-guide/

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     @Npars01 @angusm all white males

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     @allynkhine @angusm

     As an indication of how long the oil industry has been sabotaging democracy... Project 2025 first appeared in print in 1980...

     https://newrepublic.com/article/154849/david-koch-1980-fantasy

     https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/politics/quixotic-80-campaign-gave-birth-to-kochs-powerful-network.html

     https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/30/covert-operations

     https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/late-libertarian-icon-murray-rothbard-charles-koch-considers-himself-above-law/

     They've been using Oracle's CIA origins nearly as long
     https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/project-2025-oracle-19654875.php

     https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/07/koch-brothers-database-2012-election

     https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238

     Ellison is accustomed to ripping off taxpayers
     https://www.cio.com/article/3830277/how-birminghams-48m-oracle-erp-project-turned-into-an-epic-failure.html?amp=1

     https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/dxc_oracle_uk_contract/

     https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/openai-teams-up-with-softbank-and-oracle-on-50b-data-center-project/

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 10:56:00 JST Nicole Parsons

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     The fossil fuel industry has had a fascist remaking of the Axis powers in operation for a long time.

     Russia, Saudi Arabia, and #KochNetwork
     https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c743jl8k4kko

     Marco Rubio is a fossil fuel shill.
     https://apnews.com/article/us-russia-rubio-lavrov-ukraine-saudi-arabia-94bc4de5ecc86922d6ea4376e38f1cfd

     From the time of Standard Oil, the most corrupt industry on the planet has supported the John Birch Society, & various versions of #Project2025

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_C._Teagle

     https://www.npr.org/transcripts/463565987

     https://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/01/13017/how-charles-koch-backed-john-birch-society-height-its-attacks-martin-luther-king

     They fund wars over their profit margins