Now that the US is officially aligned with one of the nastiest dictatorships on the planet, if any self-styled conservative utters the words 'freedom' or ‘democracy’ in your hearing, you are fully authorized to slap the words out of their mouth.
It's over. We're done.
(*) You may say that the USA was NEVER one of the good guys, but now we've given up even pretending.
The fossil fuel industry has had a fascist remaking of the Axis powers in operation for a long time.
Russia, Saudi Arabia, and #KochNetwork
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c743jl8k4kko
Marco Rubio is a fossil fuel shill.
https://apnews.com/article/us-russia-rubio-lavrov-ukraine-saudi-arabia-94bc4de5ecc86922d6ea4376e38f1cfd
From the time of Standard Oil, the most corrupt industry on the planet has supported the John Birch Society, & various versions of #Project2025
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_C._Teagle
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/463565987
They fund wars over their profit margins
As an indication of how long the oil industry has been sabotaging democracy... Project 2025 first appeared in print in 1980...
https://newrepublic.com/article/154849/david-koch-1980-fantasy
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/30/covert-operations
They've been using Oracle's CIA origins nearly as long
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/project-2025-oracle-19654875.php
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/07/koch-brothers-database-2012-election
https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238
Ellison is accustomed to ripping off taxpayers
https://www.cio.com/article/3830277/how-birminghams-48m-oracle-erp-project-turned-into-an-epic-failure.html?amp=1
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/dxc_oracle_uk_contract/
Reminder that oligarchic rule is inherently unstable, unsustainable, and brief.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/koch-brothers-family-history-sons-of-wichita/
It always dissolves into factional warfare amongst the next generation.
https://thedemlabs.org/2023/08/05/murdoch-media-empire-global-cancer-on-democracy/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/09/rupert-murdochmedia-empire-children
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/magazine/rupert-murdoch-succession-family-trust-fight.html
https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/the-koch-brothers/
https://scholars.org/contribution/making-sense-koch-network
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/01/koch-network-a-cartological-guide/