• bradinutah@thelemmy.club
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    New Yorkers are tired of an oligarchy that rewards billionaires like the Donvict and makes the working class pay for all of it.

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      Plenty destructive in his own right, his most important function is as their orange herring.

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    it turns out there are some billionaires and Wall Street CEOs who can’t stand the idea of a mayor who wants them to pay their fair share to create a city that everyone can afford.

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    Rolling stone has their finger on the pulse more than usual lately, or was I just not paying attention before?

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      According to this it became more political in the 2000s but maybe there was an additional shift after 2017, when “Jann Wenner sold 49% of Rolling Stone to BandLab Technologies, a Singaporean company.”

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        PMC bought out BandLab several years ago. They’re the ones that got the majority share (51%) when BandLab got the minority.

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    What a story. The things rich people will do to defend their god-given right to grow their wealth. How much of their money they are willing to throw at it is in itself telling on how rich these fuckers actually are.

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