The Hollywood actor criticized the concentration of power in the hands of the Ellison family, while also mentioning the family's ties to Israel. Antisemitism is a real threat in America today, but this isn't an example of it.
This is only the beginning. This is what three decades of inaction and insufficient action have produced. Ludicrous would be allowing the US, under the grasp of a handful of villainous, ecocide billionaires and ideologues, to drag us into the abyss
Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. A Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives more precarious. Billionaires usually get what they want. They get the government they want, so long as they make the right donations.
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Peter Thiel is funding a plan to build privatized city-states everywhere from Gaza and Venezuela to small towns in California.
Losing New York to socialists, facing a wealth tax election in California—our oligarchs begin to suspect that Americans may not like them very much.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, who opposes the tax, tried to intimidate proponents into pulling the measure. It didn’t work.
The awful billionaire James Dolan’s stranglehold on one of sports’ greatest franchises is holding the New York Knicks back. The solution? Yes, that’s right: public ownership of the Knicks.
A defensible answer might be that a society serious about equality, democracy, and the finite nature of our world will, over time, make it impossible for them to arise.
Facing the prospect of paying a bit more in taxes, billionaires are responding calmly and rationally: by calling themselves a marginalized, oppressed minority group being traumatized.
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