Edited to add - To be clear for anyone, it’s Oligarchs/Billionaires paired with rampant, unfettered corporate greed. (at least in my view)

Someone reminded me that I was using dogwhistle parlance in my use of they which may have suggested otherwise.

Here are some visual aids to accompany my clarification:

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    Is this seriously a euphemism for Jewish people? I thought it was just a funny conspiracy theory.

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      It’s both, depending on the specific conspiracy theorists.

      Just like not all “infowarriors” know that “the globalists” means “the Jews” and “populist” means “rich, white, racist” in the code of Alex Jones.

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      I wasn’t actually sure when i wrote it (it just sounded “truthy”), but I just checked and found this:

      Some adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory have also borrowed from the reptilian conspiracy theory, including elements shared in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.