• @grue
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      1 month ago

      The question is not whether they will happen; the question is whether they will be fair and free.

      Every modern authoritarian regime, even including North Korea, at least maintains the pretense of voting.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 month ago

        They won’t be free. If zuck and musk keep supporting Trump, they can decide the election with their websites alone.

        • @MothmanDelorian
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          They will be free of foreign interference for the first time in decades largely because the US government will be interfering instead.

        • @NocturnalEngineer
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          Partial list of billionaires in attendance to Trump’s inauguration in person. The collective control they have over the information, infrastructure, and financing is terrifying.

          • Mark Zuckerberg - Meta
          • Jeff Bezos - Amazon
          • Sundar Pichai - Google
          • Elon Musk - Telsa / Twitter / SpaceX
          • Tim Cook - Apple
          • Sam Altman - OpenAI
          • Shou Zi Chew - Tiktok
          • Rupert Murdoch - NewsCorp
          • Chris Wright - Liberty Energy
          • Howard Lutnick - Cantor Fitzgerald
          • Doug Burgum - Arthur Ventures