In the USA #techshit mess, #OpenAI is busy wrapping itself in the stars and stripes, pushing the fantasy of “democratic AI” while the democracy fig leaf is collapsing. This isn’t democracy – it’s branding. It’s the normal Silicon Valley laundering greed through the American imperialism.

The #nastyfew, Sam Altman, Larry Ellison, Masayoshi Son, and the Saudis will do fine. They’ll gorge on taxpayer, subsides, pouring billions down the drain, just like the political as normal boondoggles – the useless littoral ships, the Foxconn ghost factory. It’s all the same scam: shovel public money into private pockets, call it progress, leave wreckage behind.
This is the everyday #deathcult at work. The language of freedom and democracy is hollow, with the smoke and mirrors hiding corporate profit motives, sprayed in red, white, and blue gloss. They were never building tools for people, they’re entrenching power, exporting Silicon Valley’s #dotcons extraction model under state sanction.
The rest of us? We get the surveillance, the climate wreckage, the bill. The only thing “democratic” about this current #AI path is how widely the costs will be socialized while the profits remain privatized.
We don’t need more Silicon Valley scams draped in flags. We don’t need “democratic AI” pushing billionaire control. What we need is a living alternative: the #OMN path.
The #OpenMediaNetwork isn’t built on subsidies for the #nastyfew, it’s built on trust, transparency, and tools for the many. It’s messy, human, and alive, rejecting the hollow language of branding and growing on the grounded: #4opens for media, code, governance, and community.
The #OMN path says: we don’t wait for corporations to drip-feed us “freedom” while chaining us with surveillance. We build our own networks. We create media that resists capture. We code grassroots protocols that put groups first, not extractive markets first. We reclaim the #openweb as commons, not a slave plantation.
This is the real “democracy” they are terrified about, and why they keep pushing their stage-managed branding exercise. We need instead people creating together, federating, refusing capture, building resilience in the cracks of the failing empire. The #deathcult is extraction, distraction, and decay. The #OMN is life, connection, and power in our hands. The choice is simple. Which side are you on?

The #dotcons sell us lies.
Shiny apps. Smooth words. Addictive feeds.
It’s branded corporate greed wrapped in a digital addiction –
the drug of distraction, sold to us as “connection.”
The #nastyfew billionaires gorge.
They own the servers, the wires, the algorithms.
They gorge on our clicks, our labour, our lives.
And the rest of us pay.
We pay in surveillance.
We pay in broken trust.
We pay in climate wreckage,
while their jets and data centres burn the sky.
The bill is dumped in our laps.
That’s the #deathcult we worship.
But we have a choice.
If we choose a different path,
we don’t need their tools.
We don’t need their lies.
We don’t need their cages.
We build our own.
Messy, raw, imperfect – but ours.
That’s the #4opens. That’s the #OMN path.
Not for the market. For the people.
Not top-down. Ground-up.
Group-first. Trust-first. Messy, real, alive.
This is democracy they cannot script.
This is media they cannot buy.
This is the #openweb commons,
we create together, not consume alone.
The choice is simple.
Kneel to the #dotcons.
Or rise, and build the #openweb.
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