Tech heavyweights who helped ignite Trump’s candidacy have told close associates they feel alienated from the GOP and are casting about for a candidate who more closely aligns with their extreme pro-business agenda.

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  • @[email protected]
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    741 year ago

    “We wanted a Corporatocracy, not an autocracy!” said the billionaires, who nominated a fascist.

    • @fubo
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      411 year ago

      “‘Anti-woke’ is supposed to mean that I get to oppress people, not that people get to oppress me!” — gay billionaire

      • partial_accumen
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        41 year ago

        Anti-woke

        I don’t think business cared about the odd GOP “Anti-woke” agenda seeing it instead as benign red meat to feed to the base. Well, business didn’t care until it started affecting the money train. At that point you get independents and a small number of business minded GOP voters staying home instead of voting for GOP candidates.

        • @fubo
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          31 year ago

          That Disney company is kind of a big deal too.

    • @ArbiterXero
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      1 year ago

      It’s literally the same as the oligarchs that enabled Putin.

      “We wanted a puppet, but it turns out he wanted power too “

    • @[email protected]
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      191 year ago

      ‘Member when conservatives and business interests in Germany thought they control Hitler so they helped enable his rise to power. I ‘member.

      • @AbidanYre
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        1 year ago

        It’s time to play Highlander or vampire? …