Thread by @SteB777

I'll briefly explain what I'm attempting to do. We face several serious crises. The climate and ecological crisis. A social justice crisis and the creeping control of us and our societies, by a powerful clique of billionaires and corporate interests. All this is interlinked.
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All this is putting our societies on a catastrophic course, where the powerful vested interests I mention, try to mislead us about the situation we are in, so they can exploit us and accumulate far more wealth from our exploitation.

2/oxfam.org/en/press-relea…

It is not in the interests of billionaires and corporate interests, for the people, the public, to know, how much danger they are in because of the climate crisis, because the burning of fossil fuels are a key part of how the very rich, increase their wealth.
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The same with social justice, it is not in the interests of the very rich, for the public to know how much wealth they have, and how they are exploiting us, because if people knew, they would want to change the system.
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So powerful and vested interests, work together to divide the people with divisive politics, to whip up hatred and division, to keep the public divided, so the people don't work together and change things, by altering the power balance.
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To this end, these powerful and wealthy vested interests, to a degree, work together to buy and control our media, and to control how people think, and what they know about the world.
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Whilst it's a gross simplification, in effect, you have 1% of the global population, controlling and exploiting 99% of the population for their own ends. For instance, the top 1% produce the vast majority of emissions, twice as much as the bottom 66%.

7/theguardian.com/environment/20…

It's an oversimplification, because the top 5%, the top 10%, benefit a bit more from this system, and not everyone in the top 1% has great controlling and decision-making power. But it is useful as an approximation of what is going on.
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It is a useful simplification, because whilst the top 5%, top 10%, even the lower part of the top 1%, benefit a bit from this system, they are not even remotely like the billionaires, the top paid CEOs and banksters.
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"Richest 1% bag nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years"

This sums it up. The richest 1% grab twice as much wealth as the other 99% of people.

Self-evidently, it isn't fair and we're being exploited.

10/oxfam.org/en/press-relea…

As I say, the very rich are only too aware of how unfair this is, which is why they use their massive wealth to fund divisive politics, and mislead people, and distract them, with their control of the media.
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They want the public hating on foreigners, immigrants, all manner of often imagined enemies, to stop people seeing who the real enemy is, which is exploiting them, and destroying the natural environment, that sustains us.
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All this is achieved with a lot of well known psychological manipulation techniques, to stop people seeing who is exploiting who. It is so successful, that a huge amount of Americans, believe Donald Trump is fighting the elite, on their behalf.
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This isn't political. Donald Trump is a multi-billionaire. It's quite the scam to have a government stuffed full of billionaires, funded by other billionaires, and to successfully con the people into believing that you're fighting the elite.

14/forbes.com/sites/kylemull…

However, to be even-handed, the centrist neoliberals, are also working for very richest people in society, whilst manipulating the public into believing they are fighting for them. It is one big scam, with artificial opponents.
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People feel helpless. No matter who they vote for, they get manipulative representatives of the elite, exploiting them. I do have some sympathy, with those who support the populist right, because they know they being ripped of, but not by who. So they turn on easy scapegoats.
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Whilst it might look helpless, it's not, if you understand that only a bit of the top 99% are only benefiting from this situation a bit, and it is 99% of humanity, against the top 1%. It's not helpless if you know how this scam of the top 1% works.
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People don't get ripped off by conmen if they know who the conmen are, and the methods they're using to manipulate us, and to exploit us.

If a lot of the 99% just came together, cooperated, the less than 1% scamming us, wouldn't stand a chance, and their scam would be over.
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What stops this happening is that the rich an powerful have convinced a lot of ordinary people, that the liberals, the left, the woke are the enemy, letting immigrants take over our society.
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Whereas those on the progressive side, just see gullible people tricked in to racism, hatred of foreigners, being manipulated by billionaires. Again, I'm oversimplifying, but this is roughly how the divide and conquer works.
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Whilst the rich and powerful, just sit back, when they've manipulated people into fighting amongst themselves, whilst they can just carry on exploiting people in peace, and driving our civilization towards collapse, by over-exploiting the natural systems we need to survive.
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All I'm trying to do, is to tell as many people as possible, how this scam works, who the real people ripping us off and exploiting us are, and how the natural systems which sustain us, are being destroyed. Being forewarned, is being forearmed.
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I am not an ideologue, trying to foist any sort of ideology onto anyone. I hate and abhor all ideology, of any side. I just want people to see how things are, and when they can, I trust people to do the right thing.
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I'm hoping that the more people who understand how we're being manipulated, played and exploited by a tiny minority with no real respect for us, that they'll tell other people about it, and we can start to unroll the gaslighting, we're being subjected to, to make us pliable.
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