[DFHippie]

And the unchecked corporate/oligarchic power is often just government power funneled through disposable, if rich, patsies.

[neves]

The unchecked oligarchy just buy the government.

[DFHippie]

X controls Musk, not the other way around. Foreign influence campaigns control X. Thus governments buy the services of a rich patsy to control/destroy their opponents.