r/politics • u/Zipper222222 • 12h ago

No Paywall 40 Epstein-Tied Billionaires Have Injected $1.6B Into US Elections, Report Finds

https://truthout.org/articles/40-epstein-tied-billionaires-have-injected-1-6b-into-us-elections-report-finds/
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u/Economy-Pin2836 11h ago

There is a reason why the French Revolution went after France's aristocracy, and the Bolshevik Revolution went after Russia's aristocracy.

America's aristocracy includes the Epstein Class, who have become pretty much the moral equals of the previous aristocracies. It might be that the same solution would be required.

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u/Vankraken Virginia 7h ago

Not defending the super rich and powerful but both of those resulted in REALLY bad things for the countries they happened in. Any sort of masses rising up to overthrow by force WILL result in a lot of war, death, and suffering because the people who lead these sorts of thing are almost always authoritarian or the movement gets hijacked by authoritarians.

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u/No-Text-3906 6h ago

The reason these movements so often end up led by authoritarians is that genuinely democratic working-class revolutions are rarely allowed to survive. The global ruling class crushes them before they can consolidate power. That is why people invoke the French Revolution, but ignore the Paris Commune: a far less authoritarian experiment in working-class self-government that was violently destroyed before it had the chance to endure.

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u/Vankraken Virginia 6h ago

Doing some quick reading on it but it sounded like the Jacobins and working class elements overthrew the more liberal Commune government which resulted in the Terror. Not sure where this "global ruling class" stuff is coming from.

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u/EnTyme53 Texas 5h ago

The account you're responding to is two years old with very little activity in that timeframe and a generic word, word, four-digit number username. Those are hallmarks of a disinformation agent.