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No, No, Noligarchs

No, No, Noligarchs

I don't want to be one of you

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Jan 23, 2025
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Does everybody have to be an oligarch now?

Spare me.

I see photographs of oligarchs. I never think they are really having a good time.

They think they are. But that’s because they think having a good time is getting over on everybody.

Which means that every other oligarch, and every oligarch-armful, and every wannabe-oligarch, is trying to get over on them.

Who needs that? Who needs to be in the minds of, even, either oligarchs or wannabe-oligarchs? (The armfuls, I don’t know, I shouldn’t have dragged them into this. I know one thing: their breasts are hanging out.)

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