• psvrh
    521·
    4 months ago

    It’d amazing how these billionaires can push for this, when the example of Putin’s Russia or Xi’s China are right there, showing what happens when you have a government headed by an thin-skinned autocrat who might decide to take your money and your life, not necessarily in that order.

    Ask any one of a number of Russian oligarchs. You might need a Ouija board, of course.

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
      321·
      4 months ago

      They would rather be afraid of one person that they think they can control than a population of people who can see through their bullshit.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      191·
      4 months ago

      Being successfully greedy makes people pretty stupid in that they believe they’re untouchable.

      We as a country right now are going through a “it can’t happen here” with Hitler Trump and it’s no different for billionaires except their version is “it can’t happen to me, I’m special because I’m a billionaire.”

      • psvrh
        131·
        4 months ago

        Jack Ma is a billionaire. See how that turned out?. Do they not think for a moment that someone as jealous and vindictive as Trump wouldn’t pull a similar stunt, if not worse?

        And Ma got off relatively lightly.

  • sunzu@kbin.run
    32·
    4 months ago

    Ackman went on teevee early in the covid after he shorted the market to tell everybody to sell

    He then bought the 30 percent dip

    SEC did jack shot about it.

    Now he is doing similar here…

    Never forget

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    261·
    4 months ago

    This world sucks so much that unplugging is a necessary coping mechanism. We’ve given assholes way too much control.

  • signor@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    Absolutely, especially the rhetoric about the election being decided already. I don’t believe an ounce of it and will vote just like I always do.

  • someguy3English
    2·
    4 months ago

    A chorus of right-leaning tech and business leaders, led by X owner Elon Musk, used their online megaphones in the wake of Saturday’s attack to criticize the Secret Service’s diversity initiatives, condemn Democratic donor Reid Hoffman and make unsubstantiated allegations about the shooting.