digitalcourage.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Diese Instanz wird betrieben von Digitalcourage e.V. für die Allgemeinheit. Damit wir das nachhaltig tun können, erheben wir einen jährlichen Vorausbeitrag von 1€/Monat per SEPA-Lastschrifteinzug.

Server stats:

852
active users

#billionaires

29 posts28 participants2 posts today

What this fails to acknowledge is the fact that money doesn't turn us into assholes, it makes it acceptable to ACT like one. They were already assholes. When poor people act like assholes they are more likely to end up in prison for it. They're all psychopaths, from your average billionaire to your average violent criminal. Its that tragically, stupidly simple.

#psychology #billionaires #unfunfacts #fightback

rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

Illustration of a head where you can see the cartoonish inside of the billionaire's mind
Rolling Stone · What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like UsBy Alex Morris

#Trump reports over $600 million in #income in latest financial disclosure. He reported making $600 million in income and $1.6 billion in #assets #cryptocurrency, his #golf properties, foreign #licensing deals and other sources. JD Vance also filed forms disclosing #Bitcoin holdings. #Waste #fraud #abuse #corruption #graft filthy lucre #theft #exploitation out in the open theft #abuse of the office of #presidency where is the #outrage #congress #billionaires #maga #gop msn.com/en-us/money/markets/tr

www.msn.comMSN

"She spoke under a large banner that read: 'No Space [an image of a spaceship] For Bezos,' playing on his ownership of Blue Origin, the spaceflight venture. 'We have to block Bezos, we have to block this idea of this city' as a tourist haven that has driven up housing costs so that most ordinary Venetians can no longer afford to live here, she said."

nytimes.com/2025/06/14/world/e

Protesters display a banner reading “No Space for Bezos!” on the Rialto Bridge during a protest against the wedding of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and Lauren Sánchez.
The New York Times · A Dream Wedding for Jeff Bezos in Venice? No Way, Locals SayBy Elisabetta Povoledo
Replied in thread

@eunews correct, the border controls are illegal and only for 6 months under special circumstances allowed but Germany did extend it beyond the 6 months. This is because the #afd and obviously originating from #trump #musk #Thiel and the rest of the #fascists of #paypal and #billionaires as well as #putin hate the #eu and invest heavily in propaganda and manipulation of the EU. It's well known that Putin financed the far right across Europe.
The #German #Rundfunk was part of this coz mysterious violent crime in Germany only got reported by the state news when the offender was a foreigner and they did extensively report about it while similar or worst crime got ignored. That #foreigners are a danger and responsible for crime is simply a lie coz not even the statistics agree with that. The #afd did it and the #cdu happily picked it up and continued by putting more personal which largely now lacks everywhere else to the borders. There it has very little effect other that to keep the #fascist propaganda that Germany has a problem with criminal foreigners going.

The real problem is that we have very #corrupt #politicians like #merz , #spahn and so many more. Like the #spd with #schröder who directly became a board member of #gazprom after being councillor of Germany.

The German government like many in the EU just love money and Putin, trump, PayPal mafia simply can give them more than the German people.

It's that easy, it's that obvious. The government isn't "German".

When elected officials say “the mainstream #media must/should…” they’re giving up their power.

Media is corrupted & won’t meet us in this moment. The question is what will we do about it? #BigTech & #billionaires may own the rails of 🚂 mass communications, but we have a lot more power than we realize.

We have power in our communities, families, workplaces, etc. We break cognitive dissonance collectively with small conversations. A trickle can lead to a waterfall. 🌊
rootschangemedia.com/new-york-

the roots of change agency · 🌱 The New York Times’ Role in Transphobia’s RisePart II: Making the Revolution Queer-resistible
Replied in thread

@piko
[EN] while it can be nice to get stuff "for free" it means not paying for the work of #writers #journalists #scientists #artists - these people are doing important work for the society

annas-archive.org/ & others steal work of humans to train #llm + so-called #ai that makes tech #billionaires richer & more powerful

Means its harder to find paid work for writers & #publishers

Sure, you can give money to people like me directly [ katika-kuehnreich.com/en/donat ] - but how many are?

annas-archive.orgAnna’s ArchiveThe world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.