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Look at Russiaโ€™s oligarchs. Hell, look at Hungary.

There was this one wealthy guy bankrolling Orbรกnโ€™s campaigns, one of the wealthiest people in Hungary. He got into an argument with Orbรกn publicly. Today heโ€™s neither wealthy, nor living in Hungary.

The people will not turn on rich people. Iโ€™m saying rich people are used to be controlling politics, but in a Russian style system, rich people are controlled BY politics, not the other way around.

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Heโ€™s still alive and no longer in hungary? so like rich people might move to their vacation estate for a year or two? this is just ordinary rich people stuff except instead of doing it for a tax cut theyโ€™re doing it because they publicly disagreed. Its theater. The whole point is to protect the money piles. It took russia like 20 years to start fussing about rich people that left the country

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Imagine Murdoch arguing with Trump, trying to bankroll another party to rein him in, with it ending in him selling all his news outlets and retiring.

The point is that money doesnโ€™t get you political power in this system.

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Imagine because thatโ€™s not even remotely how it works.

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