• @grue
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    9 hours ago

    Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, all those guys, they know better. They’re also doing fine money-wise. They had every option to just tell Trump to get fucked, and mess up their company if he wanted to make that decision

    You say that as if they’re complying reluctantly instead of enthusiastically.

    All the billionaire plutocrats are fucking GLEEFUL at what’s happening. Every. Single. Fucking. One. is the enemy of the People.

    • @[email protected]
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      -69 hours ago

      They don’t seem at all reluctant, no. Why are you saying they’re gleeful, though? How do you know?

      • Final Remix
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        139 hours ago

        Because this makes them money. Either indirectly, through kickbacks, or through stripping of regulatory powers.

        • @[email protected]
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          8 hours ago

          Not really. Big company incomes, along with pretty much any other economic metric you want to choose, very consistently do better under liberal government in the US. It is one of very few actual consistent and simple truths about economics and politics in the world. And Trump is infinitely worse than an average Republican. He’s likely to crash the entire economy, or worse.

          https://www.epi.org/press/new-report-finds-that-the-economy-performs-better-under-democratic-presidential-administrations/

          • Final Remix
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            21 hour ago

            Oh, I don’t disagree, but they definitely seem to be in a “rip the copper outta the walls and run” pattern of behavior right now. Quick Buck / pump’n’dump / whatever rather than a functioning economy.

            • swab148
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              31 hour ago

              Plus, when economies crash, rich people can just buy everything for pennies and sit on it.