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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPutin threatens his oligarchs too. It's his MO.
Trump has promised for the record to use the power of the state to suppress and punish his enemies. Maybe newspapers and media outlets should be owned by people with less to lose.
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Putin threatens his oligarchs too. It's his MO. (Original Post)
harumph
Oct 2024
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Thugs don't know any other way to do business, they trust no one. It's a real hindrance.
Walleye
Oct 2024
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Walleye
(37,337 posts)1. Thugs don't know any other way to do business, they trust no one. It's a real hindrance.
Like Trump, and he has convinced half the American people to believe that nobody is ever honest or fair and square. You just have to be better at cheating. And he convinced them to hate their fellow Americans. When hes the one that deserves our hatred.
surfered
(4,627 posts)2. There is a reason they have First Amendment protection.
But with this Supreme Court, maybe the President is immune from infringing upon that.
CincyDem
(6,972 posts)3. Bezos Musk and the whole lot should take note of the # of oligarchs that have "leapt" from the 6-7-8th floors.
hedda_foil
(16,605 posts)4. Putin occasionally defenestrates his oligarchs
Just to keep them in line.
RainCaster
(11,951 posts)5. Respect matters
Too bad Bezos doesn't understand that.
gab13by13
(26,159 posts)6. As Mishael Cohen said
TSF wants to be the richest person in the world, and he will take Bezo's money in a heartbeat.