“Voter suppression straight out of the American right’s playbook”
Let's see if this gets flagged by the new right wing Twitter corporate regime, remember, free speech is only free for fascists in 2022! Subscribe to @BylineTimes NOW!
bylinetimes.com/2022/11/07/vot…
@BylineTimes Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz, Qatar, and Dorsey), all interested in challenging US$. Musk & Dorsey are major Bitcoin fanatics, and believe it’s the future of money. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have expressed interest in displacing the$ as the world’s reserve currency
@BylineTimes There are terrifying consequences for this libertarian end game move on Twitter, the enforcers are all involved in an anti-democratic movement of oligarchs intent on reshaping the world economy to bypass the 'oppressive constraints of democracy'
bylinetimes.com/2022/11/07/mus…
Instead of looking at Musk as a “businessman” who’s trying to make money in the old system of fiat currency, advertising, and revenues, perhaps he’s actually an ideologue looking to drag the whole world through a transition into a new economy.
Musk’s friends, specifically Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and Rod D. Martin, have been trying to replace the dollar since their days at PayPal. Former PayPal COO David Sacks said, in 2017, “Bitcoin is fulfilling PayPal’s original vision to create a ‘new world currency” #Libertarian
Where democracy tends to flatten societies and equalise opportunities for all, autocracy tends to emphasise hierarchy and wealth. Musk, as the world’s richest man, has come to believe he embodies the peak of such a hierarchy, and seems to seek to impose it on others.
The same way we believed Trump wouldn't win or Brexit would actually happen, Musk is dismantling the biggest social media platform for totalitarian ends, he and Putin believe sovereign nation states are passe and that oligarchy should replace democratically elected Governments.

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Nov 14
Trade peace not trade war. Free trade zealots, the real operators behind Brexit despise protectionism and Govt intervention. Disorder and chaos, a manufactured recession, the UK relegated to a capital hungry economy now signals it's desperation for venture capitalists to seize on
The IMF, WTO, World Bank are focused on commitments to r/w libertarian ideology, the Govt in thrall to this enforces austerity as actual policy, on the back of national and international crises. Why? To lure dubious investors into a deregulated free market economy. #Libertarian
The UK under these conditions cannot defend itself from malign private interests, the only way #Brexit actually functions is to underscore corporate hegemony/bullying and the myth of trickle down economics, perpetuated for generations. #GeneralElectionN0W #GTTONow
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Nov 13
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"
For every deficit in the economy there is an equal and opposite surplus, if one part of the economy is paying out more pounds than it's receiving, the other part is receiving that many pounds.
Deficit is an illusion. MMT
The horrifying thing here is that the billions stolen by this Govt for PPE to vanity projects, to astronomical profits for Big Tech/Oil/Pharma/Tobacco/Amazon et al to rigging tax laws for political power means you will pay for that gaping hole left by the libertarian right.
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Nov 11
One of the rights biggest hurdles is to sway the intellectuals/college educated to their ideological form of governing. They failed many times over the years, but here's the thing wealthy libertarians have been buying up educational curricula that shut out all traces of leftism.
To do this the right sought out free market advocates and economists to help conquer politics via books like Intellectuals and Socialism, The Road to Serfdom, The Virtue of Selfishness and more recently in the UK, Britannia Unchained and The Sovereign Individual
All of which are essential reading for the +450 r/w think tanks in the world who claim to be non profit and of charitable status yet operate as a party within a party holding massive influence over Govt policy making. Eg @iealondon
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Nov 10
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His friend Oliver Smedley warned Fisher to be cagey as their libertarian ideology must not indicate any political bias, after all they were funded by tax payer money under charity status. The IEA was formed and quickly followed by the CATO Ins, Heritage and ATLAS.
Brexit is to the UK what Donald Trump was for the Republican party in the US. Ending FOM effectively traps people in the UK, I believe this is a ploy to eventually force people to work for the private sector once the welfare state and the entire public sector has been dismantled.
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People in 'in-work poverty' using food banks; nurses, teaching assistants, factory workers, retail assistants, delivery drivers and hospitality workers.
This far right Govt despise their own citizens. Austerity as policy choice.
#Libertarian #GTTONow
theguardian.com/society/2022/n…
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Everything most people care about, support for health, social care, education, justice, and the environment is the polar opposite of Tory policy making, this is the radical rights ideological agenda made flesh. #EnoughIsEnough #GeneralElectionN0W
theguardian.com/business/2022/…
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3,800 EU laws that protect workers rights to be abolished by rabid ideological post Brexit lunatic MP's, you are in serious trouble UK people! Wave goodbye to holidays, pay rises, equality
Minister and unions clash over EU protections for holidays and pay theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Seriously, what do people think comes next after a deregulation killing spree? 'Statist' protectionist laws abolished, powers given to corporations who will install new charter city regulatory frameworks via Singham's Babson program

UK Govt are aping the US libertarian rights sledgehammer approach to democracy, 'Win the courts, win the war'. Tactics of distracting public with scandals mask what is really happening post Brexit, the systematic reconfiguration of the UK to a kleptocracy
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