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100% agreed. Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries and the DNC leadership are corporate and AIPAC whores.

Only the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and a couple of independents are actually on the side of the American public.

We need to reframe the concept of billionaires among the public. In reality, they are seriously mentally-ill people with uncontrolled OCD that manifests itself as Financial Hoarding.

If a neighbor was hoarding animals, or rusty cars, or old newspapers, etc., the authorities would step in, get them mental health assistance, and clean up the mess.

But that's not how we handle people that hoard money. Instead, we worship them, excuse them, laud them as great businesspeople, and give them MORE money. Can you imagine if the government responded to the lady with 100+ cats, who is making the entire neighborhood miserable, by giving her 100 more cats, making the situation even worse?

That's what we're doing with Sociopathic Oligarchs, and making a bad problem even worse. Now they are battling for Trillionaire status, and we are already seeing people like Musk using his money to act like a nation, cutting personal deals at the expense of entire nations. He has already shown his willingness to control Starlink over battlefields.

What will happen when they start becoming trillionaires, and can fund their own military? What if multiple trillionaires decide to form an alliance, and form their own Military-Industrial complex, and start manufacturing their own armaments, including nuclear?

None of that is far-fetched, and is easily predictable. With that much money, at some point, some psychopath is going to go rogue, and then we'll all be wondering why we didn't stop them when we had the opportunity.

They are mentally ill, let's treat them as such.

It’s capitalists in general, not just billionaires.

Some capitalists might argue on ideological grounds that government intervention is not a truly free market (although none would turn down government funds if offered, because they've sold their souls to the infinite pursuit of greed).

In reality though, most modern capitalism is crony capitalism. So the distinction loses meaning.

Cronyism implies someone with their hands on the levers of power pulling them to help their friends/accomplices, which this certainly is an example of.

tRump hands out favors to anyone who bows to him. It's cronyism.

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Its not relevant in the homophobic way OP meant, but it kind of is relevant that he has aligned himself with some of the same people who would destroy him if they had the opportunity.

It does when he uses it to keep people silent and on his leash, people like JD Vance, who has been fully OWNED by Theil since he was in college. Literally every job he's ever had was given to him by Theil, including the VP.

Collecting politicians is the new Sociopathic Oligarch hobby.

Billionaires aren't gay or straight. They're not people in the sense that we know them. They have no authentic community, they've removed themselves from the human race.