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more and more it seems like he's referring to billionaires more or less.

• philipallstar 3mo ago
  That's because you've had years of consuming media that blames everything on billionaires.
  • Alive-in-2025 3mo ago
    well, plus the evidence of billionaires pushing for things that aren't that great after all. Maybe good for their bankroll though.
  • CursedSilicon 3mo ago
    Ah, yes. The media. Famously the voice of the proletariat and the oppressed Walter Lippmann is spinning in his grave
    • hunterpayne 3mo ago
      For reference, Walter Lippmann is the guy from the NYT who covered up the Holodomor in Ukraine (1930s) in the west as well as Stalin's gulags and purges. I wouldn't call him the voice of the proletariat in any way. He was the voice of the Stalinist in the west and the term tankie was invented for him and people like him.
      • CursedSilicon 3mo ago
        That's a strange take. But okay He also wrote the book "Public Opinion" in 1922 [1] which explained how the US mass media apparatus could be used to influence the common man. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book)
      • Paradigma11 3mo ago
        For veracity, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty was that guy.
  • breezybottom 3mo ago
    Billionaires own the media. Why would they blame themselves?