Comment on US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies
Freefall@lemmy.world 1 week ago
We have a puppet coming into the presidency. China will have all the inroads to our government they care to pay for. Tencent and Co. will be a non-issue.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 week ago
As opposed to all of our previous presidents, who refused to be bought by corporate corruption? LoL.
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 week ago
I don’t think they’re making that claim, just that Trump is easy to manipulate and buy off for anyone with the means. Everything is negotiable with him.
My own thought is that the wealthy corpos absolutely can and do purchase US politicians, but some of them have some philosophical guardrails that preclude stepping over certain issues. That number, however, seems to be shrinking the longer we have politicians who are allowed to get fat off of the people.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 week ago
K. Which president does that not equally apply to? Could probably count on one or two hands the number congresspeople that can’t be bought.
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 1 week ago
But we beat big pharma…
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh yeah? Hahaha. When was this? Didn’t hear the news about free insulin.