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4. Disaster Capitalism is very profitable.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Dec 25, 2024, 03:16 PM

Dec 2024

Musk's DOGE plan: privatization of government services, deregulation of the financial sector, and forced austerity measures resulting in deep cuts to social spending, all to pay for tax cuts that will benefit wealthy folks like him. The only government budgets to be increased will be policing and the military, to keep the restless rabble under control at home and abroad.

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