• VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu
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    12 hours ago

    If only there was a way to know that before it happenned. There is no way unlimited corruption is bad for democracy right? I mean we have to keep status quo just to be really sure corruption is actually bad. /s

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      10 hours ago

      One expert in philanthropy previously told the Guardian Musk stood out because of his “complete eschewal of discretion as a mode of political engagement”.

      I’d like to know how much more in the constituency’s face enough to get them to do anything differently, now?

      Democrats, themselves quite reliant on rich donors, will lobby for him to switch sides. The Democratic representative Ro Khanna suggested the party should “be in a dialogue” with Musk. Although Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley and has called for the left to embrace economic populism, saw intense backlash against his comments from his party, he doubled down. “If Biden had a big supporter criticize him, Trump would have hugged him the next day,” he wrote on X. “When we refused to meet with @RobertKennedyJr, Trump embraced him & won. We can be the party of sanctimonious lectures, or the party of FDR that knows how to win & build a progressive majority.”

      🤦‍♀️They. do. NOT. work.for.the. public.