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I wonder who’ll be next week’s Prime Minister?

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garjones wrote:

Arjan Dirkse wrote:

Someone on twitter made the point that all the main platforms are controlled by right wing billionaires. Bezos (who owns Washington Post) and Zuckerberg seem to have switched to supporting Trump. It’s all quite concerning.

I think Musk is all-in, in fact further to the right than Trump and half his crowd. He’s already declared the likes of Nigel Farage are too left wing for him and he prefers neo-Nazis like Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

Zuck and Bezos are just cowards. They bent the knee as soon as Trump took power because they are afraid of any repercussions on their business if they didn’t. I’m not saying for a second they are secretly Marxists or anything, they are billionaire businessmen after all and like to be taxed low and have weak unions. My suspicion is though they’d rather someone more rational in there, probably don’t like the ICE shit, definitely don’t like the tariffs etc.

The truth is that for a lot of these business leaders, it’s easier to go along with Trump in the short term compared to the potential negative effects of vocally opposing him.

In the grand scheme of things the chaos of Trump is a relatively short-term, time-limited episode that they (and a lot of other business leaders) are happier to ride out, rather than start a war with.

Even when it comes to global upsets like the trade tariffs, it’s unlikely they’ll persist past Trump even if he sticks with them for his full term, so it’s just a couple of years of disruption to get through before normality begins to return.

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lorcan_nagle

…it’s just a couple of years of disruption to get through before normality begins to return.

Living in the eye of the storm (so to speak), it’s hard for me to be that optimistic about ever getting back to normal.

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Don’t forget, back to normal for the capitalist class is very different than that condition for the rest of us. We’ll still be dealing with the aftermath of Trump’s America in the trenches for decades.

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Al-x, Dave, Ben

Well, the US prison industry will be doing well after Trump, with all the ICE agents being jailed.

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lorcan_nagle wrote:

Don’t forget, back to normal for the capitalist class is very different than that condition for the rest of us. We’ll still be dealing with the aftermath of Trump’s America in the trenches for decades.

Yeah, I was talking purely from a business perspective there. Socially I think the damage will take a lot longer to reverse.

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