• psvrh@lemmy.ca
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    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.

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    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

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    4 months ago

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

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    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.

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    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.