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MeisterEckhart Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 12694 Gender:	Re: Biden Warns of Tech Oligarchy Reply #30 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 9:21am Leroy wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 11:46pm: Are you adult enough to admit that those in power abused the legislative, executive, and judicial institutions to go after Trump. And you know that because you were at their cocktail parties?
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Reply #31 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 9:25am

aquascoot wrote on Jan 17^th, 2025 at 4:55am:

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Power is always something that's taken - either by force, coercion, blackmail or bribery.

nah

most people just give it away.
most people are scared, tired , feel they live in scarcity, feel they are victins of their environment.

You're conflating personal agency with political/economic power over others.

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Reply #32 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 9:25am

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 17^th, 2025 at 9:21am:

Leroy wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 11:46pm:

Are you adult enough to admit that those in power abused the legislative, executive, and judicial institutions to go after Trump.

And you know that because you were at their cocktail parties?

Looks like I hit a nerve with cocktails parties.

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Reply #33 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 9:38am

Leroy wrote on Jan 17^th, 2025 at 9:25am:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 17^th, 2025 at 9:21am:

Leroy wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 11:46pm:

Are you adult enough to admit that those in power abused the legislative, executive, and judicial institutions to go after Trump.

And you know that because you were at their cocktail parties?

Looks like I hit a nerve with cocktails parties.

No, it is a good metaphor for highlighting confirmation bias.

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Reply #34 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 11:15am

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 8:41pm:

Biden warns US on verge of tech billionaire 'oligarchy'

And he's not wrong...

From Peter Thiel's eccentric, yet successful, application for a New Zealand passport - then his unsuccessful building permit applications to build a 'Fuhrer Bunker' style dwelling in its South Island, to Elon Musk's lambasting foreign heads of government - using his almost monopoly of social media...

To Zuckerberg's 'welcome' into the 'tech bro' fold...

The US, and the world, will soon be reckoning with an oligarchy the size, combined power and wealth of which the world has never seen.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-16/joe-biden-farewell-address-oval-office-te...

Is it by any chance same Big Tech oligarchy that colluded with the Dems to filter and deplatforming Trump on Farcebook, Twatter, Guurgle, Big Media and the rest? Biden should tell us ( or rather whoever has his hand up the moth eaten sock puppet should tell us).

The Lefties are projecting their sins onto Trump, once again.

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Reply #35 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 12:55pm

Frank wrote on Jan 17^th, 2025 at 11:15am:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 8:41pm:

Biden warns US on verge of tech billionaire 'oligarchy'

And he's not wrong...

From Peter Thiel's eccentric, yet successful, application for a New Zealand passport - then his unsuccessful building permit applications to build a 'Fuhrer Bunker' style dwelling in its South Island, to Elon Musk's lambasting foreign heads of government - using his almost monopoly of social media...

To Zuckerberg's 'welcome' into the 'tech bro' fold...

The US, and the world, will soon be reckoning with an oligarchy the size, combined power and wealth of which the world has never seen.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-16/joe-biden-farewell-address-oval-office-te...

Is it by any chance same Big Tech oligarchy that colluded with the Dems to filter and deplatforming Trump on Farcebook, Twatter, Guurgle, Big Media and the rest? Biden should tell us ( or rather whoever has his hand up the moth eaten sock puppet should tell us).

The Lefties are projecting their sins onto Trump, once again.

So, a politically biliteral oligarchy, then... like the industrial-military complex before it.

And like the industrial-military complex, politicians thought they could manage it, control it, even, which prompted Eisenhower's original draft phrase - the industrial-military-congressional complex but was warned off dragging Congress into it.

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Reply #36 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 1:46pm

Frank wrote on Jan 17^th, 2025 at 11:15am:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 8:41pm:

Biden warns US on verge of tech billionaire 'oligarchy'

And he's not wrong...

From Peter Thiel's eccentric, yet successful, application for a New Zealand passport - then his unsuccessful building permit applications to build a 'Fuhrer Bunker' style dwelling in its South Island, to Elon Musk's lambasting foreign heads of government - using his almost monopoly of social media...

To Zuckerberg's 'welcome' into the 'tech bro' fold...

The US, and the world, will soon be reckoning with an oligarchy the size, combined power and wealth of which the world has never seen.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-16/joe-biden-farewell-address-oval-office-te...

Is it by any chance same Big Tech oligarchy that colluded with the Dems to filter and deplatforming Trump on Farcebook, Twatter, Guurgle, Big Media and the rest? Biden should tell us ( or rather whoever has his hand up the moth eaten sock puppet should tell us).

The Lefties are projecting their sins onto Trump, once again.

You've got to stop seeing the truth and facts as a campaign against you.

It's not.

You've just chosen to believe and align with bullshit.

When that bullshit is called out, it's not a personal attack, it's just reality knocking on your door.

By all means, continue to ignore it, you do it constantly, but it doesn't make you a victim of a plot against you, it just makes you a gullible moron who prefers to live in a safe space of misinformation than confront the truth that what you believe may not be true.

It's funny you'll go on about lefties projecting when you and those like you are the biggest snowflakes of all with more safe spaces than a pussyhat-wearing social justice warrior, while being so quick to accuse others of needing a safe space.

It's hilarious how pathetic you've become, in victory no less...

I can't imagine what a cry baby you'd be if Trump lost given how many tears you're shedding on a daily basis after he won...

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Reply #37 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 2:09pm

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 17^th, 2025 at 12:55pm:

Frank wrote on Jan 17^th, 2025 at 11:15am:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 8:41pm:

Biden warns US on verge of tech billionaire 'oligarchy'

And he's not wrong...

From Peter Thiel's eccentric, yet successful, application for a New Zealand passport - then his unsuccessful building permit applications to build a 'Fuhrer Bunker' style dwelling in its South Island, to Elon Musk's lambasting foreign heads of government - using his almost monopoly of social media...

To Zuckerberg's 'welcome' into the 'tech bro' fold...

The US, and the world, will soon be reckoning with an oligarchy the size, combined power and wealth of which the world has never seen.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-16/joe-biden-farewell-address-oval-office-te...

Is it by any chance same Big Tech oligarchy that colluded with the Dems to filter and deplatforming Trump on Farcebook, Twatter, Guurgle, Big Media and the rest? Biden should tell us ( or rather whoever has his hand up the moth eaten sock puppet should tell us).

The Lefties are projecting their sins onto Trump, once again.

So, a politically biliteral oligarchy, then... like the industrial-military complex before it.

And like the industrial-military complex, politicians thought they could manage it, control it, even, which prompted Eisenhower's original draft phrase - the industrial-military-congressional complex but was warned off dragging Congress into it.

Kennedy could have added to Eisenhower's industrial-military complex as an oligarchy with the CIA - and he may have, had he lived.

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Reply #38 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 4:12pm

aquascoot wrote on Jan 17^th, 2025 at 4:55am:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 10:06pm:

Leroy wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 10:04pm:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 10:01pm:

Leroy wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 9:58pm:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 9:48pm:

Leroy wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 9:38pm:

Zuckerberg was just fine when he followed dems orders.

And now he'll be following the orders of the tech bro alphas.

So status quo, the rich have just taken over the rich.

The richest of the richest of the rich... more powerful with more available resources than any other singular group in history...

They can't be voted out, and now they have a US president in their collective back pocket... Thomas Jefferson's worst nightmare.

Did they create this power or did they take if from someone.

Power is always something that's taken - either by force, coercion, blackmail or bribery.

nah

most people just give it away.
most people are scared, tired , feel they live in scarcity, feel they are victins of their environment.

they exercise virtually no power and just want to be "taken care of"

this worsens every year as governments offer their titties to the perpetual infants who have no intention of weaning off that titty.

these people never had their power stolen.
they surrendered it
they find words like "personal responsibility" repulsive.
if they were to take on that burden, how could they play the victim?
how could they have someone to blame or their own mediocre existence?

if you read the 48 laws of power, you will see someone like trump follows nearly every law Wink

its his superpower.

he uderstands how the masses think

how did he learn?

millions of hours of pressing the flesh, reference eperiences and A B testing.

Just so. WITCH HUNT !!!

LAWFARE !!!

SO UNFAIR!!!

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Reply #39 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 5:57pm

As it turns out, Eisenhower's final address was not only gravely sombre in its tone regarding the industrial-military complex, it was also prescient in that he saw the future long after his death.

"In holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy [i.e. democratic institutions] could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."

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Reply #40 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 6:59pm

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 17^th, 2025 at 5:57pm:

As it turns out, Eisenhower's final address was not only gravely sombre in its tone regarding the industrial-military complex, it was also prescient in that he saw the future long after his death.

"In holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy [i.e. democratic institutions] could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."

that ship has sailed brother.
the tech bros just want people on platform
off platform (in nature, with family, with friends) you are costing them money

they keep you on platform by feeding you your own reality, your own truth

gweggy and myself have completely different versions of the truth
i'm fine with it.

thanks to the tech bros, you can pick whatever version of the truth serves you .

you just have to decide why you are bouncing out of bed in the morning and then decide on the reality that aligns with your purpose

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MeisterEckhart Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 12694 Gender:	Re: Biden Warns of Tech Oligarchy Reply #42 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 7:15pm aquascoot wrote on Jan 17^th, 2025 at 6:59pm: thanks to the tech bros, you can pick whatever version of the truth serves you . Aldous Huxley is laughing in his grave... Social media is soma.
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 48962 Gender:	Re: Biden Warns of Tech Oligarchy Reply #43 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 7:19pm In America $$$ is the truth
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Reply #44 - Jan 17^th, 2025 at 7:28pm

in gwegs eyes trump is a rapist felon who should be in jail

in my eyes he's a super interesting phenomena with the strongest powers of persusion i have ever seen.

as a person who runs a few businesses, my truth about trump serves me well

as someone who gets his self identity out of virtue signalling and moral superiority, gwegs truth about trump serves him well.

its all good brother

as i said, decide WHY you are bouncing out of bed and then adopt the truth that serves your purpose.

i get more cash/growth/real social dynamic and understanding of customer motivation

gweg gets to sleep better feeling he is a good guy.

horses for courses

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