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Are we really looking at the death of US Hegemony? Will Trump succeed somehow?

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    12 hours ago

    I should point out that while billionaires fund think tanks, they’re mostly staffed by compete cranks or idiot nephews who need busy work. They’re adult daycares where goofballs dream up impossible plans or try to influence classes at universities.

    Most of the time when they actually do get their hands near the wheels of power their job is to do bullshit studies that politicians can point at to support whatever bill they’re pushing. Like say Representative Goofus wants to invade Cuba, he’ll get the Heritage Foundation to make a chart explaining why Cuba’s gonna destroy the world and needs regime change.

    That’s their primary function

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      True that. But most of those cranks also come from schools like George Mason U/ Mercatus who have been teaching what the Billionaires have been paying them too for like 30, 40 years now. This has always been the end goal.