U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California, has achieved significant financial gains from her recent investment in Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA), a prominent company in artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductors. On Nov. 22, Pelosi acquired 50 call options for Nvidia with a strike price of $120, expiring on Dec. 20, 2024. The transaction value ranged between $1 million and $5 million​​. As of early 2024, Pelosi has reportedly made nearly $500,000 from this investment, surpassing her annual governmen
  • JoBo@feddit.uk
    23·
    10 months ago

    Yeah, sure. Wealthy people don’t have any power, even with all those newspapers and TV channels they own, or the politicians relying on them for donations and cushy jobs once they’re out of office.

    I refer you back to the Schumer quote and beg you to wise the fuck up. You cannot understand anything about this world if you do not understand how power works.

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
      31·
      10 months ago

      Dude I have no fucking idea what you’re talking about. Poor people make up the majority of the country and poor dem voters criticize dem pols. Poor gop voters don’t criticize gop pols. That was the entire meaning of my original comment.

        • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
          21·
          10 months ago

          The last time I checked, the right disowned that musician for clarifying that he was criticizing the wealthy right as well as the wealthy left. He was disowned by conservatives as soon as they realized he was criticizing them too.

          I think you are being weirdly aggressive in your approach to “debate”, if a debate is even what is happening here. This guy is not your enemy. You should focus that anger where it’s needed, at an actual enemy.

          • JoBo@feddit.uk
            23·
            10 months ago

            The actual enemy being liberals who deliver us to fascism every fucking time. Don’t ever lose sight of that.

                • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
                  22·
                  10 months ago

                  You’ve sent me a link to a dictionary entry for “Anarchism” that mentions the word “liberal”. Something tells me you aren’t able to define the word on your own.

                  You might be a more effective communicator if you stick with perjoratives you understand instead.

                  Did you mean “neoliberal”? If you meant “neoliberal”, then I agree. Neoliberals are conservatives who facilitate fascism.

                  If by “liberal” you meant “progressive”, then let’s start a new thread so we don’t get your blood all over this one.

                  • JoBo@feddit.uk
                    22·
                    10 months ago

                    Here’s some more reading for you. Excellent writing, if you can be bothered to apply yourself. If you do, you’ll discover that you (currently) have no clue what a liberal is, or why they’re very fucking bad.

                    Ur-Fascism

                    Italian fascism was the first right-wing dictatorship that took over a European country, and all similar movements later found a sort of archetype in Mussolini’s regime. Italian fascism was the first to establish a military liturgy, a folklore, even a way of dressing — far more influential, with its black shirts, than Armani, Benetton, or Versace would ever be. It was only in the Thirties that fascist movements appeared, with Mosley, in Great Britain, and in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia, Spain, Portugal, Norway, and even in South America. It was Italian fascism that convinced many European liberal leaders that the new regime was carrying out interesting social reform, and that it was providing a mildly revolutionary alternative to the Communist threat.

                  • JoBo@feddit.uk
                    13·
                    10 months ago

                    I said page 181. You will need to look at page 181.

                    And no, I am not going to pretend to have the skills of Raymond Williams, nor the time to rewrite his perfect words just for you. Sorry 'bout that but, do some reading, yeah?