Why It's Time to Fight Back Against the Dystopian Tech-Trump Oligarchy

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https://bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/the-tech-trump-alliance/

Those who watched silently as reactionary tech bosses seized power in the US must now wake up and fight back, argues Johan Farkas and Aurelien Mondon

Johan Farkas and Aurelien Mondon
26 January 2025

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At no point in history have so few people controlled so much of global communication, while also being so closely aligned with an authoritarian leader. At no point in history have oligarchs become this powerful. At the podium bedecked with the Presidential seal, Musk chose to thank his supporters with a full Roman salute, making his symbolic connections to fascism anything but subtle.

This is the age of reactionary tech oligarchy. And it is urgent for all who silently watched their ascend to unprecedented wealth and control over global communication to wake up and help fight back.

Since taking over Twitter (since re-named X), Musk has become the caricature of a Bond villain: the evil billionaire whose thirst for power cannot be quenched. This picture, while tempting, is problematic as it underplays how deeply ingrained these politics always were for Musk, but also how his success was enabled by those who now claim to oppose him.

It simultaneously exceptionalises what is far more than an individual’s ‘radicalisation’ and prevents us from examining the broader trends in tech and capitalism — including the failure of liberal institutions to respond — which have produced the threat to democracy we are now facing.

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