Simultaneous purging of the chief generals of all three branches.
They are ensuring the military has no cohesiveness to stage a future coup against the Executive Branch, and are replacing all control with their own loyalists.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
      46·
      18 hours ago

      Oligarchs are not unified. Some companies are heavily disaffected like pharmaceuticals thanks to RFK. Tariffs will also hurt most businesses’ bottomline. Trump’s policies only benefit certain oligarchs (tech companies and Musk) so the other oligarchs who get pissed off will band together to support someone friendlier.

        • Drusas@fedia.io
          22·
          16 hours ago

          But not the owners. They’ll be able to buy up those tasty, cheap stocks.

          • redwattlebird@lemmings.world
            19·
            16 hours ago

            Exactly. In every crisis, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Out of the last several financial crises, who’s come out for the better? All I see is the widening of the gap between rich and poor.

            Makes me wonder about the rhetoric against violence and how ‘we need to be above that’. Where has that message come from?

            • SabinStargem@lemmings.worldEnglish
              4·
              5 hours ago

              Two places:

              1: We are supposed to be nice people. 2: The wealthy are evil, and want people to be too gentle to resist.

              The rich amplify the ‘kind’ part of protests (MLK), while trying to stifle the ‘harsh’ (Malcom X, Panthers), to ensure that resistance is toothless. IMO, the answer isn’t to ditch ‘kindness’, but rather to understand protest movements as two pieces that work together…

              Hammer, and Anvil. One is a promise of unyielding violence if things don’t change, while the other is a solid foundation that offers an alternative. Protestors shouldn’t seek peace at all costs, that isn’t how an effective negotiation works. Power only respects power.