“Whole futures are being erased,” Silva said. “Whole fields are being gutted, and for what? To keep the #billionaire class in control while the rest of us are told to be quiet, be polite and stay in line? But we won’t. The statement, ‘Hands Off,’ is our refusal; hands off of our #students, hands off of our #science (and) hands off of our committees.”
https://collegian.com/articles/news/2025/04/category-news-thousands-mobilize-at-hands-off-rally-to-protest-recent-federal-actions/

@DemocracyMattersALot
Very true. Accruing more wealth than you will need in your lifetime to survive is not just sociopathic. It is also an out of control hoarding disorder.

Notice that 'reality TV' shows pushed by #billionaire manipulated networks frame hoarding by the 99.5% as a mental dysfunction, but if in the .5% of elitism, it frames it as something to admire, celebrate, and pathetically try to emulate (knowing such extremes of wealth are actually ringfenced) like hamsters on treadmills.

@randahl
No wonder #Trump failed his businesses, he has no idea how anything works. If he didn't have his #billionaire mates pumping money into his account, he would be on the done by now.
He thinks all these #American companies make their products in the #US so he is "helping" them. In reality, most of them exploit third world countries, pay staff a dollar per day and charge exorbitant amounts of money for the privilege of using their brand names.

Everything will be more expensive in the US.

#Wealth of #billionaires by #country

@KimPerales
#@Trump knows what he is doing, nothing better than crashing the market so he and his #billionaire mates can buy land, stock, shares all the hell they want at a much reduced cost and then pump the market back up again - their shares will be worth so much more. Meanwhile, the poor will have to sell everything to pay for the basics.

The #US is going back to feudalism.

@Wen he who pays the piper calls the tune.

The interests of the #billionaire #kleptocrat class are always, systematically and necessarily, radically opposed to those of the non-billionaires. Any election in which any political donations larger than could reasonably be afforded by the poorest voter are tolerated is by definition anti-democratic.

@quoidian @Bluedonkey @frog67 @kibcol1049

Damn straight.

Better to have a school teacher for a leader than a #billionaire.

And billionaires know this, that's why they're destroying education.