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Re:Creating apps like Signal could be 'hostile activity' cla... by 9dev on Thursday December 18, 2025 @10:26AM (#46313749)
No, that's what I was getting at. Thinking "they" are in charge is actually very widespread, with varying opinions on who "they" actually are—whether it's billionaires for you, the Rothschild's for others, or Reptilians for some.

How great it would be to have a select few evil masterminds, a clear enemy to roil against! That isn't reality, though. Would the super-secret council of puppet masters have allowed Trump to become president of the USA (again) and ruin the economy? You'll have an answer to that, obviously. It matters little. Reality is far more complex, shadow masters prefer stability over chaos, and the world is generally full of competing and opposing interests.

A few rich men might hold a lot of power in their hands, I give you that; but unless you limit "the world" to mean an arbitrary smaller region of earth, nobody is in charge of it all.

Re:Creating apps like Signal could be 'hostile activity' cla... by coliveira on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:16AM (#46314631)
You're confusing control with total control. Nobody has total control, even the most powerful and rich entities. This doesn't mean, however, that a lot of the policies we see being enacted by governments have not been discussed and promoted by a small number of people in very high positions of economic and political power. You're trying to disprove this well known and easily attested fact with the straw man of total control.
Re:Creating apps like Signal could be 'hostile activity' cla... by cjbgkagh on Thursday December 18, 2025 @10:50AM (#46314187)
Not even Trump thinks he’s in charge, he has to ask Netanyahu, Susie Wiles, and Alan Dershowitz for permission to act first.

Would the elite allow Trump to get elected even if he’ll tank the economy, I think that depends on how much he will pledge in support of Israel and its wars of expansion. It’s now or never for them.

I think Americans are discovering how government policy does not reflect popular sentiment across the vast majority of political spectrum and are left wondering who really governs their country because it’s clearly not the voters. Of the right wing who remains in the Trump tent? Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Miriam Adelson (a female billionaire btw). I would measure the extent of this ‘awakening’ with the burgeoning popularity of Nick Fuentes. Tucker Carlson has been trying to out flank Nick from the right but didn’t move fast enough. My pet theory is that we’re seeing an external representation of an internal CIA conflict. The ‘restrainers’ versus the ‘primacists’.

What I think is not important, I don’t even vote in my own country. I think financialization is a poison and anyone who believes Gen Z will accept higher taxes to bail out insolvent pension funds will be in for a rude awakening. We’re in the looting phase of collapse so I doubt this is a situation that can still be resolved politically. It’ll be hard for anyone to be in charge now for sure now we are governed by incompetence, but this too is the result of competence malice of decisions made long ago. So I would give the prior decisions more weight.

Re:Creating apps like Signal could be 'hostile activity' cla... by 9dev on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:03AM (#46314404)
So it is the Zionists for you. I should have guessed so.
Re:Creating apps like Signal could be 'hostile activity' cla... by onraglanroad on Thursday December 18, 2025 @03:06PM (#46317919)
Do you think it's a coincidence they're called Gen Z?!