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I find it funny how we use phrases like "Russian oligarchs" all the time without batting an eye, but we never use them when referring to the Bushes or the Clint
by colpabar 5y ago
I find it funny how we use phrases like "Russian oligarchs" all the time without batting an eye, but we never use them when referring to the Bushes or the Clintons in the US.
- JadeNB 5y agoThere's a minor genre of imagining US journalism standards for world reporting applied to reporting on the US: https://slate.com/tag/if-it-happened-there https://slate.com/tag/if-it-happened-there
- alanlammiman 5y agoLOL. It's telling that even in these satires they don't quite get the tone right - it still has a tinge of US- centrism in there
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoThe power resides in generational wealth not some commoners who got lucky. These people don't need to hold elected office because they can buy whatever they want, including manipulating government in their favor.
- ipaddr 5y agoThe Clintons and Bushes are not really oligarchs. They represent a monarchy maybe of inherited wealth and status. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerburg are better examples of oligarchs because they managed to create their own wealth and with that obtained political clout.
- cratermoon 5y ago> they managed to create their own wealth Haha, there's that fiction. See how deeply it pervades all thinking about power and success in the US?
- Ekaros 5y agoI take that politicians are more of useful tools. Not the people who have any real power or wealth.