In the 2020 presidential election cycle, more than $14bn went to federal candidates, party committees, and Super Pacs – double the $7bn doled out in the 2016 cycle. Total giving in 2024 is bound to be much higher.
That money is not supporting US democracy. If anything, that money is contributing to rising Trumpism and neofascism.
Capitalist markets adore stability, that’s why they had to quell that uncharacteristic spate of increased worker leverage a few months back, as employers must retain stable, unilateral authority over the labor market.
Of fucking course they love the idea of an capitalist exploitation loving authoritarian. Why risk the peasants electing some spoiler bleeding heart that would prefer not to stick it to them every 4 years when you can have stable, dependably hyper cruel leadership that is no longer answerable to anyone? Sounds great for quarterly earnings! And at the end of the day, aren’t quarterly earnings for private shareholders the very purpose of our American lives?
American “Job Creators” have always been fascists. From the Business Plot, where they made the mistake of asking Smedley Butler to be our Fuhrer, to Henry Ford’s factories in Nazi Germany.
When Trump was whining about the election 24/7, they lost interest. Now that he’s going full-on naked fascist, he’ll have their full support.
The fact that Smedley Butler isn’t loudly championed as one of the greatest heroes in American history is a god damn travesty
Yet another reason to seek an authoritarian if you’re one of our sociopath capitalists.
To quell defiance.
Of fucking course they love the idea of an capitalist exploitation loving authoritarian. Why risk the peasants electing some spoiler bleeding heart that would prefer not to stick it to them every 4 years when you can have stable, dependably hyper cruel leadership that is no longer answerable to anyone?
because that capitalist exploitation loving authoritarian’s dick is so small that he was comparing the size of his nuclear button to a 3rd-rate tin pot dictator’s. Granted, you did answer it in the first sentence:
Capitalist markets adore stability
And Trump is anything but stable. Are some assholes lining up to fund him? sure. they’re voting anybody in who’ll push their policies in. (and by voting, I mean bribing the fucking hell out of everyone.)
They won’t care about climate change until a CAT 6 literally obliterates their supply lines to the third world they exploit.
They won’t care about nuclear Armageddon until the bombs are literally dropping.
By stability, I meant market stability, meaning shooty shooty quarterly line goes /.
Capitalists have never and will never give shit 1 about the externalities they cause, because they resent the societies they profit from for taking so much as a dollar from them despite their societal damage. Workers daring to strike after they spent decades changing the laws to hobble unions is of far greater concern to them than nuclear Armageddon, because it’s personal. It’s a defiance of what they see as their kingdom.
By stability, I meant market stability, meaning shooty shooty quarterly line goes /.
seems like nuclear war would put a kink in those supply lines, huh? not all of them think that far ahead, or that concerned about it. but there’s a reason there’s other bullionaires supporting democrats. while the republicans are objectively worse… if you thought the democrats were on your side… they’re not. when you have that much money, politics isn’t about demcorat or republican; and trump is a danger to many as much as others see him as a boon.
And Trump is anything but stable. Are some assholes lining up to fund him? sure. they’re voting anybody in who’ll push their policies in. (and by voting, I mean bribing the fucking hell out of everyone.)
Because they’re confident that they’re isolated from the chaos their policies will bring thanks to their walled communities and private armies. Feudalism 2.0. If the king creates too much chaos and disrupts their income, they’ll assassinate him and install a new one.
List their names out please
Of course they are - they’re psychopaths.
They’re each and all people who, in a sane society, would be institutionalized in order to protect others from the harm they inevitably do as a consequence of their complete lack of principles, morals, empathy and remorse. But instead they’re allowed to run free, and this is what we get.
She’s pretty much the one exception. She’s the only billionaire that legitimately earned it without fucking over hundreds of minimum wage employees. The people who work her tours get comprehensive health insurance, and she pays the truckers $100k. She also kept a music store in I think Nashville alive during the pandemic.
She’s become a global pop culture phenomenon akin to the Beatles, or at least close to them. It makes sense she’s made so much and it’s been actually moral.
I’m not a fan of hers, but everything I’ve heard about her lately makes me think she’s a good person.
Just hear me out, maybe billionaires should be lined up?
Lined up and taxed back into being millionaires? Sounds good. No need to be a psychopath. You’ll have better chances getting people to agree to raising taxes on the rich than you will getting them to agree to murder.
The odds of any politician regulating and taxing billionaires is laughable. Itd probably end up being easier to line them up tbh
We cannot suffer any of them to survive. Not just because of their many varied crimes, not because forcefully separating their heads from their bodies will immediately solve many problems that we cannot otherwise solve. We need to kill each and every one of them, because allowing them to remain will risk them attempting to retake the world. They have never known life without their privilege and cannot fathom a world where they do not have it.
Seems like we would be better off without billionaires.
