@GottaLaff

Putin is going broke funding an unwinnable war on Ukraine.
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-ally-warns-companies-collapse-sergey-chemezov-1975012

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-lavrov-says-potential-bankruptcy-or-sale-nord-stream-2-gas-pipeline-2025-01-14/

https://www.economist.com/business/2024/12/04/russian-businesses-are-beginning-to-bear-the-cost-of-war

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/this-european-economist-says-russia-could-go-bankrupt-and-run-out-of-liquid-reserves-by-fall-of-2025-heres-why/articleshow/117270284.cms

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-aviation-faces-tsunami-bankruptcies-1985668

https://www.businessinsider.com/russias-defense-sector-on-overdrive-but-firms-warn-of-collapse-2024-11

https://telegrafi.com/en/Russian-financial-bankruptcy%2C-the-country-has-about-40-billion-dollars-in-debt/

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/vodka-stoli-bankruptcy-ransomware/

@BrodieOnLinux

The Big Five keeps trying to jam Spyware-AI into every nook & cranny of its software.

Consumers aren't having it...

@stux

A suit is a symbol for Trump & his billionaire backers.

It says to their audience that money matters more than people.

Zelenskyy has the opposite message and it infuriates Republicans.

@cobalt123 @NyakoKitty @GottaLaff

Trump & Vance shouting at Zelenskyy, demanding that he show "gratitude".

The false allure of "showing gratitude" in an abusive relationship.

Abusive spouses expect "gratitude"
https://www.perpetuaneo.com/psychopath-gratitude-trap/

Abusive parents expect "gratitude"
https://beatingtrauma.com/2017/10/25/you-should-be-grateful/

Mafia thugs expect "gratitude"
https://mafiasome.blogspot.com/2017/02/respect-in-mafia.html?m=1

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One of the many reasons why the fossil fuel industry funds Musk's DOGE fascism...

Lawsuits like these...
1. Price fixing cartels
https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/27/baltimore-lawsuit-alleges-shale-investments-by-blackrock-fidelity-opec-hess-vanguard-others-fueled-shale-price-fixing-scheme/

2. Climate disaster liability lawsuits
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/15/polluter-pay-bill-climate-disasters

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/16/los-angeles-wildfires-fossil-fuels-big-oil

https://zerocarbon-analytics.org/archives/energy/latest-trends-in-climate-litigation-against-fossil-fuel-companies

3. Sanctions evasion
https://www.tradewindsnews.com/tankers/sanctioned-shadow-fleet-tanker-loads-oil-despite-uk-lauding-disruptive-policy/2-1-1745497?zephr_sso_ott=RLUflU

https://www.biv.com/news/economy-law-politics/was-jet-fuel-china-made-russian-oil-8270067

4. Pollution fines
https://www.fidelity.com/news/article/top-news/202412261501RTRSNEWSCOMBINED_KBN3DL0S7-OUSBS_1

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/12/big-oil-climate-lawsuits-fossil-fuel-companies

@georgetakei

Musk is serving the purpose of his fossil fuel overlords: Destroy any democracy acting on climate change.

Alwaleed bin Talal
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/10/31/saudi-prince-alwaleed-becomes-twitters-second-largest-shareholder/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to-maintain-twitter-stake

Petr Aven & Vadim Moshkovich
https://cybernews.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-russia-investment/

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/putins-henchmen-helped-musk-to-acquire-twitter-reports-381664/

Fidelity
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-investors-elon-musks-x-revealed-court-filing-1942970

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-1340968/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/29/elon-musk-x-republican-democrat-twitter-election/

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@W_Lucht

The fossil fuel industry paid billions to stop any democracy that worked on climate action.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/big-oil-445m-trump-congress

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-34474798

https://telegrafi.com/en/concerns-in-the-USA-after-the-Saudi-prince-becomes-the-second-largest-shareholder-of-Twitter-after-Elon-Musk/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2023/10/10/exclusive-charles-koch-koch-industries-has-given-more-than-5-billion-of-his-koch-industries-stock-to-two-nonprofits/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/investing/koch-russia/index.html

They've even succeeded in melding an Oil version of the Axis Alliance: Russia, Saudi Arabia, and #KochNetwork for "Joint Arctic Energy Projects" guaranteed to start WW3.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/russia-and-us-eye-joint-arctic-energy-projects-after-saudi-talks/

https://theconversation.com/canada-greenland-panama-gaza-and-now-ukraine-wake-up-world-donald-trump-is-coming-for-you-248737

@angusm

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

@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/

@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/

@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.

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@EugeneMcParland

Trump, played by Putin, again.

Credit: Michael de Adder

@emilymbender

The developers of LLM's & AI have been warned about bias for over a decade yet the industry makes strong efforts to purge the harbingers.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/

https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/

Why?
Purges of dissenting staff occur because the investors behind these initiatives want the results so badly, they're prepared to fund it limitlessly, no matter its poor quality.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2024/02/02/artificial-intelligence-the-new-eyes-of-surveillance/

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/oracle_ai_mass_surveillance_cloud/

Silicon Valley is more interested...
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@obrhoff

Zelensky knows that Trump is a faithless liar.

Any agreement with Trump isn't worth the paper its written on.

He's betrayed allies in Afghanistan & Syrian Kurds.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-syria-ap-top-news-international-news-politics-ac3115b4eb564288a03a5b8be868d2e5

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-14/afghan-allies-stranded-by-trump-refugee-and-foreign-aid-bans

He's torn up trade agreements he signed just 4 years ago.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E2%80%93Canada_Agreement

He signs contracts then doesn't pay.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/cities-seek-750k-unpaid-bills-trump-campaign-events-rcna174757

He picks cherry picks winners based on who flatters his ego or who donated to him.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/corporate-donors-trump-inauguration-1.7430028

@heidilifeldman

When Nazis or the mafia demand that you participate in atrocities or participate in crimes, don't "just follow orders".

Resign your position immediately and keep your evidence for future investigation & prosecutions.

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

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

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

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

@cdarwin

Charlie Kirk is funded by fossil fuel donors Hanley, Farris & Dan Wilks, rabid Christian fundamentalists behind climate denial & civil rights rollbacks for women.

https://www.desmog.com/2019/03/12/turning-point-meet-trump-allied-climate-science-denying-fossil-fuel-funded-ultra-conservative-us-student-group-coming/

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/10/20/charlie-kirks-republican-friends-00062305

https://www.yahoo.com/news/line-trump-allies-warn-gop-212704476.html

https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/who-funds-conservative-campus-group-turning-point-usa-donors-revealed-2620325

@briankrebs

Oligarchs fund fascist coups for a reason. Anti-democracy movements like Trump's always end in war.

Deluded kooks like Koch, Thiel, Mellon, & Musk think there's a winnable nuclear war & climate action can be delayed forever.
https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-pedro-sanchez-big-tech-billionaires-democracy-social-media/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/31/elon-musk-an-excess-of-billionaires-is-destabilising-politics-just-as-academics-predicted

https://jacobin.com/2022/02/billionaires-pandemic-wealth-democracy-economic-control-bezos

https://inequality.org/article/billionaires-vs-democracy/

@knittingknots2

Trump knows the first rule of selling yourself: give good value & insist on the going rate.

The current price of a US president is $288 million...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/31/elon-musk-trump-donor-2024-election/

@gvwilson

Fascists always try to build false narratives.

For women, a fascist's favorite narrative for women is: "Kinder, Kuche, Kirke" (Kids, Kitchen, Church)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder,_K%C3%BCche,_Kirche

In an anti-democracy movement funded by billionaire religious fundamentalists like Tim Dunn, Farris & Dan Wilks, & misogynistic tech weirdos like Musk & Thiel, erasing women from history comes just before erasing them from employment & erasing their social & economic mobility.

https://indivisible.org/resource/unmasking-maga-exploring-gops-war-women-womens-history-month

@persagen

What happens when optimization algorithms and AI are funded & their fossil fuel financiers direct development towards a global anti-democracy movement?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub

https://techafricanews.com/2025/02/06/aramco-digital-microsoft-and-armada-advance-ai-and-edge-computing-in-saudi-arabia/

https://www.cio.com/article/3602900/saudi-arabia-launches-100-billion-ai-initiative-to-lead-in-global-tech.html?amp=1

https://gulfbusiness.com/deepfest-2025-ai/

What happens when the might of the biggest former democracy puts taxpayer dollars into the effort to end democracy?

https://www.levernews.com/trumps-ai-moonshot-leads-to-saudi-arabia/